{"id":5321,"date":"2016-10-27T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2016-10-27T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T21:37:15","slug":"diy-single-nozzle-multi-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=5321","title":{"rendered":"DIY single nozzle multi material?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>So Prusa and Prometheus currently have similar systems in the pipelines:http:\/\/ift.tt\/2eQPIjh anyone unaware, they basically retract the filament completely out of the hotend and have a Y split\/merge in bowden tubes to let another filament unretract all the way into the hot zone.I don&#8217;t want to preorder and wait or pay ~$300 when really all I need is that Y junction. Anyone DIY it yet?The Prometheus has a special (black) &#8216;bowden&#8217; tube that helps prevent filament from jamming in PTFE tubing (from being a little thicker where it melted). Where can I get something like this? Anyone know what Prusa&#8217;s system uses?I&#8217;m currently using RAMPS with Marlin, running in EEB with an E3D Chimera. How do I get both tools to use the same hot end heater\/thermistor? http:\/\/ift.tt\/2dQpL0x<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Prusa and Prometheus currently have similar systems in the pipelines:http:\/\/ift.tt\/2eQPIjh anyone unaware, they basically retract the filament completely out of the hotend and have a Y split\/merge in bowden tubes to let another filament unretract all the way into the hot zone.I don&#8217;t want to preorder and wait or pay ~$300 when really all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=5321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIY single nozzle multi material?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-5321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}