I am curious as to whether or not the machine has the capability to print other types of material since it has the ability to print at 220 degrees Celsius.
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You’d have to check, if the electrical components are able to handle higher temperatures, if that’s the case you’d have to hack into the firmware and change the maximum temperature, this might be difficult as I’m pretty sure, that Dremel uses proprietary software.
Otherwise you’d not only have to change the printhead, to install new electronics, you’ll also somehow need to use a small controller board between the temperature sensor and the main board of the printer. That would have to take the value of resistance from the temperature sensor (for example 50Ohm at 220C). The board has to somehow be able to work like a resistor on one output, with that you might be able, to tell the printers mainboard that it just reached the “fake” 50Ohms aka 220C with the hotend, although the small board “knows” that the temperature already is above that. This is some very tricky hacking and probably not worth the effort. It might be easier to find a way, to print ABS that cold or print with ie Nylon 230 from Taulman, which has a lower printing temperature of 220-230°C.
Cheers,
Marius Breuer
You would need to add a heated build platform.
You would need to replace the bed and wire it to be heated as the idea builder doesn’t have a heated bed.
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Hi Austin,
It’s quite an old post of you but you mentioned using a heated bed inside the Dremel… how did it go? how did you solve the wrapping effect? did you gain any experience in building a heated bed from scratch with shelf components?
Thanks for your efforts!
Bye