Refining Ultimakers Extruder Gear System

Due to some warping and accuracy issues of parts, print quality of models began to suffer from poor extrusion. Thus it was needed to revise the extruder gear system and re-print parts on another machine. In this case I use the Up!Plus 2 to print the new parts; 60mm/s, 0.15mm layer height, loose in-fill 50%, ABS. The parts turned out perfectly all components accurate with no post processing needed other than removing support structures and no warping.  With help from Katherine Kawecki, we spent a few hours stripping the old system down to reuse the bearings and bolts for the new parts. Documented below is the old system verses the newly printed parts. To note, in order to remove certain parts from the old system it was necessary to melt parts of the housing to free the bearings/bolts, due to adhesives holding components together.

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