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I'm currently looking into upgrading one of my old printers with a filament cutter since filament ramming gives me headaches. It's supposed to be controlled by the printer but I don't find a clear answer what kind of servo or actuator to best use (which is both lightweight but also strong enough). I still have some servo pins available on my board, no stepper though.

Can someone give me a hint what to look for?

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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Damn, that's indeed a really cool solution. I'll look into this, thanks!