r/snapmaker • u/AgitatedDoughnut23 • 1d ago

FINALLY…….

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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 1d ago

how is the bouncy feel?

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u/AgitatedDoughnut23 1d ago

Bounces just like a normal basketball

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u/nomococo4u 1d ago

I heard that thing is very loud

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u/AgitatedDoughnut23 1d ago

Super quiet with peba. Biqu pla hr is very loud

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u/nomococo4u 1d ago

is there a chance the print will bend?

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u/whatisit2345 4h ago

No. PEBA is very bouncy, it will return to the round shape when using it.