This weekend’s projects:

1. Replace the PSU in the #Flashforge #Adventurer5M. The one it comes with has the fan going at all times, which is annoying. Meanwell makes a drop-in equivalent that… doesn’t. Unfortunately they tripled in price at some point.
2. Modify the Sunlu S2 dryer to hopefully be less noisy and not require the lid be propped open.
3. Install the #Microswiss Flowtech hotend on the #SovolSV08, if it shows up. The stock hotend is just ridiculous. A bunch of screws and thermal paste any time you want to change the nozzle? Might as well make me hot-tighten it, which I still have never done successfully. I’d rather have an E3D Revo solution rather than another standard but whatever.

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#3dprinting update;
I'm super happy with my build. Unfortunately the upgrade path looks like it's going to force me into #Klipper which has never actually been good to me.

My build currently:

• Ender5 chassis
• #BTT #Octopus mainboard
• Modded #Endorphin-- Meaning: Linear Rail conversion-- Partial CoreXY kinematics
• #microswiss direct drive
• Volcano hot end + 60w heater
• 0.6mm #Diamondback volcano nozzle
• MSDD modded heat break / mount
• Hydra-based cooling solution
• Dual independent Z-screws
• BLTouch
• Mains powered bed heater
• Octopi

Like many before and similar to myself the Ender platform served as a wonderful platform to build and tinker on. As far as I can find, particularly with my custom work for the Volcano, this is a unique build. I looked at the traditional volcano options but I did not like the #klemco mount options nor the traditional volcano heat break. I was concerned about heat creep but I've seen no signs of it even when printing PC.

At this point I'm looking into the #Eddy bed level sensor, but it's klipper only. Otherwise there's almost nothing I can want from my printer that it cannot do. Multi-material would be nice but there's no good way to do it and MMS' are so damn wasteful. More print volume would be handy but that means changing a lot and I've got spare 235x bed plates for days. The Eddy makes bed leveling super fast and accurate, leagues beyond what a probe based sensor can do. But it also means being unable to come back to Marlin and lose a bit of print volume to the Eddy sensor. So I guess I'll see, if something comes along to convince me to suffer through Klipper's headaches.

And now, adding a #PT100 thermistor to the build.

My hot end is easily my limitation now. There are much better out there, but I really do like my #microswiss #directdrive setup. Small, effective and decently powerful. I can add a "hotter" heater element but that doesn't fix that the filament only gets heated for the short mk8 nozzle length. A v6 is better, but again, I have to change up the hot end.

It's very yellow.

#3dprinting #ender5 #microswiss #mousetrap

Direct drive upgrades were installed.

A slow 15 minutes PLA+ cube and a very slow 58 minute TPU cube.

It's actually only the second thing I've printed in TPU, first was a USB-C dust plug with just a slowed down PETG or PLA profile and it was good enough and has been in use daily for.. 2 years! I do not recommend TPU on a bowden but it's doable.

It's Overture TPU which is not that soft.

The Micro Swiss NG works good. I'll be printing more TPU now.

#3dprinting #ender5 #microswiss

After a long frustrating period my #Ender3-Pro has been transformed by the addition of the #MicroSwiss-NG extruder kit.

Going from Marlin to #Klipper has already halfed the time for many prints while also making fiddling with the firmware a breeze.

I was on the verge of just getting a new printer. Buying the kit seemed to be a gamble, a possible waste of money,but it turned out to be the best upgrade ever.

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About three hours and two burned fingers later, my #Creality #Ender 3v2 #3dPrinter now has a #MicroSwiss direct driver extruder and a CR touch auto-leveling sensor. This allows me to print #TPU and #Flex filaments much easier than with the stock Ender3v2 😀

The fan shroud is temporary as I need to re-print it in a better quality and also do proper cable management once I got some guides printed.