Being a proud owner and user of the Creality’s Ender-5 Plus for more then couple years now, I’ve hit an issue when I’ve ripped off the thread in the printer’s hot-end making it impossible to mount the nozzle itself.
Images below are provided just for reference on how it looked out before the replacement.
Obviously thinking about it for a while, just a simple replacement was put sideways on behalf of connecting this with an upgrade. Picked the best of the best – Micro Swiss Direct Drive Extruder for Creality Ender 5.
For a “shabby” $154 US it offers significant improvements as listed below – using the original description:
Micro Swiss Direct Drive Extruder is a drop in system for Ender 5 Printers
- No modification required, simple plug and play
- No printed brackets or sandwiches
Features:
- Dual-drive train
- Hardened tool steel, CNC precision cut gears
- Adjustable filament grip
- Easy filament loading
- Short, highly constrained filament path
- Prints flexible filaments with high speed and accuracy
- Outstanding extrusion control
- Lightweight aluminum body
A shipment from US surprisingly arrived in ~10 days, what was redicaly more efficient than my first try to source it locally from 3D Printers Online based in Windsor, NSW. If you come across these guys – don’t bother. My attempt to get the same from them ended up after two months with a refund, which still didn’t make it!
Anyway, package from Micro Swiss guys arrived quickly and in an excellent shape.
Then it was all about patiently do the replacement itself, while following the installation guide provided. I took few pictures throughout the procedure just to have some minor documentation on this.
All worked out well and all components shown being high-quality precisely manufactured, it really was a pleasure putting it together. At the end I did a test-run, where surprisingly filament have been pulled out instead of being pushed in, but looking in a box with leftovers, I found out a servo cable there, which fixed this instantly.
Printing test finally worked out nicely! Thank you Micro Swiss guys, this really unclogged our project again!
