Ceramic Delta Printer

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Large ceramic printer for extrusion on a massive scale. Extruding clay at a fast pace and with precision: https://vimeo.com/128022387 Getting in place for action and with no room for error: https://vimeo.com/128063275 How To Do It This giant printer is ideal for clay extrusion operations. The Moineau Pump extruder gives total control of volume per motor movement. Useful applications Rods that are half an inch in diameter make great towers Nema 17 60mm motors, strong and with sixteenth steps, on each axis Nema 17 34mm stepper motors give great service for the extruder Arms are built with five-millimeter diameter rods Bearings from skateboards ride easily along with the carriages using bearings What you put into it to make it run: Mix together kaolin that is thirty-five percent, and ball clay that is twenty-five percent Add nepheline syenite at twenty percent in a well-measured proportion Finally, silica to complete this blend, twenty percent by measure You will also need about one percent of the right additive: deflocculant, preferably sodium silicate or darvan 7, not to mention some soda ash