Useful guides and tutorials for your machines!
Dryer Airid User Manual
/in Airid Plymer Dryer - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Airid Polymer Dryer - How to start, Airid Polymer Dryer - How to start articles /by manosDownload Airid Dryer’s User manual
Guide: purging your Filament Maker
/in Filament Maker - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles /by louisThe purging process-walkthrough for upholding your extruder’s performances.
Recycling PEEK: extrusion walkthrough from regrind to filament
/in Filament Maker - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles /by manosOur experiences with the recycling of shredded polyether ether ketone (PEEK). Starting with a batch of PEEK regrind, we adjust the extrusion settings for optimal filament quality.
Recycling PLA: extrusion walkthrough from regrind to filament
/in Filament Maker - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles /by manosOur experiences with the recycling of shredded PLA. The goal was to produce 2.85mm filament and assess its quality. The influence of drying the regrind before extruding it was also analyzed.
Filament Maker Firmware updates
/in Downloads - Firmware & More, Filament Maker - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Filament Maker - Troubleshooting Articles /by manosHere you will find all the firmware updates that we have released for the Filament Maker up to today. Loading the latest version is very important to keep getting good extrusion results.
Recycling PET bottles into filament: shredding and extrusion walkthrough
/in Filament Maker - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles /by manosOur experiences with the extrusion of PET bottles into 3D printing filament: shredding and extrusion walkthrough. In this study we prepare the PET bottles, shred them, and perform several adjustment steps to find the optimal extrusion settings. The quality of the filament is analyzed.
PLA colored filament: extrusion walkthrough using masterbatches
/in Filament Maker - Guides - Tutorials Articles, Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles /by manosThis extrusion walkthrough shows how PLA colored filament can be produced using virgin PLA pellets and masterbatch pellets which contain pigments.
Tips and tricks about using the shredder SHR3D IT
/in Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles, The Shredder - Guides - Tutorials Articles /by manosThis page describes possible minor problems that may occur with using the SHR3D IT and how to work around them.
Cleaning the shredder SHR3D IT
/in Guides - Tutorials, Guides - Tutorials Articles, The Shredder - Guides - Tutorials Articles /by manosCleaning the SHR3D-IT properly will increase the quality of your recycling results. It is important to clean the machine carefully and correctly, so that the shredded material which ends up in the granulate collector only consists of the pure material and no different plastics mixed together.