1.75mm nylon for wire bundle
Hi there,
I am upgrading my MK2S to a MK25S. I missed out on the kit so I'm doing it piecemeal. The bed and Rambo already installed...and printing the last extruder parts right now. I noticed that the MK2.5S uses 1.75mm nylon instead of 3mm. I imagine I really should use nylon and not ABS, PETG, etc...but I don't have any on hand. Checking out Amazon I found a wide variety of nylon & nylon blends such as Taulman 230/645/910. I'd like to grab something cheap since my only application right now is getting the extruder installed. Any advice would be appreciated.
RE: 1.75mm nylon for wire bundle
Hmmm, that's a good question, I didn't consider that for my upgrade which I'm doing this weekend. Is the old piece too short? Guess I will find out.
RE: 1.75mm nylon for wire bundle
I'm pretty sure the MK2.5S still uses a 3mm nylon support filament for the cabling, or at least I don't remember changing to a thinner one from 2s to 2.5s. In any case it is only 500mm long, so buying a whole kilogram just for that is silly.
I just used a piece of smooth round trimer line from the hardware store. Power weed trimmers have a variety of available filaments, usually made of nylon, known as trimmer line. These are available in small packages in several diameters and cross sections.
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RE: 1.75mm nylon for wire bundle
You are right, it's still 3mmish material. I ended up finding some in one of our drawers.
The old one was long enough but was noticeably less stiff than the one which came out of the old printer.