Awesome article about a CD player printed with an E3D Volcano,

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Awesome article about a CD player printed with an E3D Volcano, cutting printing time from 32 hours down to 6 hours.

http://3dprint.com/66332/3d-printed-cd-player/
http://3dprint.com/66332/3d-printed-cd-player

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I normally don’t comment on these but I strongly suspect the performance of this player has very little to do with the 3d printed parts (as long as the supports are rigid enough). Also he’s traded off finish quality for speed by using the larger nozzle and layer height.

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@Chengster_N ​ even at the same layer height and speed, the .8 nozzle will print twice as fast. Only real downside to the big nozzles is the decrease in xy details. In this case xy detail wasn’t needed.

The volcano has about 30mm3/s throughput. At the lower layer heights the limit is more the machine. I’ve printed at 200mm/s with the .6 nozzle and .2 layers. And it wasn’t the volcano that stopped it from going faster.

I guess my point is that there really isn’t any quality degradation with the volcano given the same settings ( save changing nozzle size).

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@Dan_Kondrick That front facia does look pretty rough though, being printed flat (XY), I guess that’s where a smaller nozzle would give a better looking finish?

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@Chengster_N ​ that’s a simple fix, flip it. The back of that piece looks fine. not to much detail on the xy planes. The issues I’m talking about are when you have two holes that are .4th apart and you have a .8 nozzle.

Might need a bit of fine tuning to get perfect surface finish.

Think of it like crayon. A big crayon will color in a picture faster. A smaller one takes longer but does better in the little corners.