Hi there, I don’t have bulbs yet but do see the hikari on Amazon. Although which hikari ones specifically?
Does one adapter work on other brands? Thanks in advance
It appears that brands are hit or miss with respect how they like to mount them (mainly the locking mechanism). I just made one for someone else to try and they fit with another UK-based brand. But it’s just a chance to take at this point. He is running higher-wattage bulbs too, so I asked him to touch base with me in a few weeks to see how they fared (they were made with the higher temperature-resistant material).
Unfortunately, due to recent events, I was unable to update the store and will be unavailable for a few weeks. The plan is re-open everything by 1 December.
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Unfortunately I got some very bad information about PETG and it has an even lower melting point than ABS. The one I had tested melted horribly.
The internet sucks sometimes.
I have purchased new filament and other equipment to get this working for high temp applications.
Trying to run this again using PA6 and the filament spool was improperly wound. Jammed inside my printer. Hopefully it didn’t cause damage. Geez I’m tired of all these setbacks.
I cannot extrude any material. I need to take apart stuff to see if something got jammed, broken, worn, etc.
Apologies for the delay. I thought this would have been an easy thing but I did not foresee a bad spool being a problem. 
I took apart the extruder and there’s no damage. No blockages. I don’t understand why it won’t feed any filament.
I can’t believe that bad spool totally screwed me over.
I have a support ticket in with the 3D printer manufacturer to get further insights.
Only two things I can think of is the hotend not getting hot enough or the extruder feed gears not biting into the filament hard enough to push it through the hotend.
I’m thinking the second one – the feeder isn’t grabbing the filament. But there’s a spring and tension screw there. I don’t see how it’s not on the filament. I’m hoping it’s an easy fix because it looks like a simple mechanism.
Going back and forth with 3D printer support for several days now. I think I figured it out myself that the jam threw something out of alignment. (Support isn’t really providing anything I didn’t already figure out). The tensioner for the filament is working backwards, but unable to understand why/how.
I just bought new bought new parts and they arrive in the morning. Hoping I’ll be good to go by tomorrow afternoon.
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I just saw your reply about the feeder. On my trashcan Ender 3 the tension was through a plastic lever arm that fatigue cracked, and the brass gears were dulling down through use. I assume yours is a better design but they probably do all fatigue from the software constantly feeding and retracting filament.
New extruder assembly arrived and I just installed it. Same issue. I’m so fucking frustrated. Support has been subpar.
@kip-ft The machine doesn’t have that many hours on it but I’ve done the required maintenance. Nothing is worn at all according to support that asked for photos of everything. 
Hmm. Maybe it’s the bowden tube. Can you remove it from the extruder and feed the filament without it for a little? Gotta isolate variables just like car diag lol
It turns out it was my multiple filament holder / feeder. The printer works fine using a single external spool, and I’m currently test printing a laptop part in PLA.
Ugh what a waste of time and money. At least now I have spare parts ready to go.
So I sent that new information to the support staff. I’m hoping I’ll get a response by Monday morning. I don’t like using the external spool because it’s susceptible to humidity whereas in the spool holder is enclosed and full of desiccant.
While waiting for support to respond, I decided to take the filament holder (called the AMS) apart using their Wiki. I found a broken gear housing. This MUST be the culprit. There was debris all in the gear so I used some compressed air to blow it all out. The manufacturer does NOT have that bracket available for sale, but luckily some kind soul had a 3D model of that bracket and had the same issue I’m experiencing. I printed it out but didn’t have time to put it all together. Hoping to do that today and then I’ll be back in business.
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Sigh. Didn’t get a chance yesterday but I’ll be home for the next several days. I should have some time to fix everything up.
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Everything works! Back in business. I need to dry out all my filament again but I hope to have the store open and this part printed on Sunday.
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Couldn’t print the part but the store is open. This week looks promising though 
I’ve installed the new extruder to handle the high temperature filament. Test print when I get home from work.
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Test print went well! What didn’t go well is the support tends to stick to the actual part.
So I have to tinker a bit more. Glad for the holidays the next few days where I don’t have to go anywhere.
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can’t wait to see the finished product. Happy New year Neil
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