I wonder if you could have a something that squirts a fine jet of liquid nitrogen, just behind the print head? Expensive though I suppose.
I wonder if you could have a something that squirts a fine jet of liquid nitrogen, just behind the print head? Expensive though I suppose.
Maybe - just a semi-random idea, mind you - a Ranque-Hirsch (or Vortex) tube (and a source of compressed air) would be enough and possiby be more practical:
Yep, coincidentally I was just reading today about a "crazy" experiment increasing "abnormally" the nozzle hole size on a common printer, JFYI:
http://www.tridimake.com/2013/07/extremely-fat-extrusion-wit...
of course having both speed and precision would be much better.
However I have to print at 10mm/s and I actually use 0.4mm layers so I’m not sure it’s faster in my case. I’m still limited by my ability to melt plastic.
But I’m building a robot [1] that is 200 hours of print time currently, and I’d love to make it faster.
[1] http://reboot.love/t/rover-a-robot-you-can-make-at-home/94
I feel big nozzles printing wide traces have other benefits like overall strength and such (less welds is my guess) and thicker walls per number of perimeters (again...less welds).
In my shop I keep a .7mm authentic jhead for when I want to use a larger nozzle.