Have anyone experienced that the ball heads becomes rough on the surface?
To test if your ball heads has become rough please try and turn the carbon fiber rods when in place. If you hear a grinding sound like sandpaper. Then the chrome on your ball heads is starting to loosen.
After 300+ hours of printing I refurbished the finish on all of the ball heads. Now after 500+ hours everything works like a charm. No grinding sounds and much, much better, smoother and more precise motion. It now runs better than it did to start with.
Also use a white PTFE (teflon) synthetic grease on the ball heads inatead of the stuff supplied in the kit. PTFE lubricates the best possible way in this type of aplication. The white color makes it easy to know when to change the grease on every individual ball head. It is time to change when white turns dark grey.
Even better would be to not have to use any grease on the ball heads, but. This is a matter of matching the right materials. That is another discussion.
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André Medborg
2015-05-11 19:45:29
Here is a picture of how my ball heads looked before and after refurbishment.
Harry Cayne
2015-08-20 00:19:20
how did you do the rechromig (galvanising)?
André Medborg
2015-08-20 02:26:06
Hi
Harry Cayne
i placed one ball head at a time in a hand drill and used grit 1200 sandpaper to remove the old chrome. Then i polished it with two kinds of wax based polish. That was it. It really works well still after lots and lots of printing. I also use a small amount of teflon grease on the heads.
Harry Cayne
2015-08-20 02:32:25
ah ok thanks, so you made a nice polishing there no electroplating involved
Harry Cayne
2015-08-20 02:34:18
by the way what software are you using ?
Harry Cayne
2015-08-20 02:34:45
André Medborg
2015-08-20 02:45:18
I mainly use Kisslicer and Slic3r, but I have started using CraftWare again and it really works very well. Kiss is very allround and works well. Slic3r is very good for making seamless single walled objects like vases etc.
André Medborg
2015-08-20 02:46:06
Did you have problems with the ball head finish?
Harry Cayne
2015-08-20 02:48:30
no not yet I'm a brand new user, but I've just realised that Craftware is hungarian and I am hungarian so I would be happy if this would be a useful software for us !
Harry Cayne
2015-08-20 02:49:47
nice to hear that you are using Craftware too
André Medborg
2015-08-20 02:50:14
Ha, that is funny. Go Hungary!