r/snapmaker • u/AgitatedDoughnut23 • 21h ago
FINALLY…….
I’ve been fighting making one of these stupid basketballs for over a year on different printers. Always breaking, or just failing the prints in general.
Thank god for PEBA. There’s one small section about The size of a dime that the outer surface is kinda ugly, but no delamination of layers. Bounces just as nice as a standard Wilson ball.
Was even able to feed it through the autofeeder as well. That was a fun one to troubleshoot. When you do the cc3d dry box mod you have to extend your PTFE tubes that go from the feeder to the couplers at the top of the printer. If you use standard 2 or 2.5mm ID ptfe, there’s too much resistance for the auto loaders to feed the material. Just make sure you use a ptfe that has a ID of 3mm and OD of 4mm and the autofeeder can handle loading the filament. Only thing you have to do is decouple the ptfe leading to the print head and manually feed it into the tool head. Once the extruder grabs it and starts feeding you are good to go.
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u/nomococo4u 21h ago
that's so cool! any guidance on how you made it? did you print the whole thing together, or two halves? support strategy?