Daniele Verducci 🧉Sep 27
There's no way... after all the repairs, I still cannot print anything larger than a few centimeters with my #creality #ender5 #3Dprinter... part of the #brim (and of the first layer as well) refuses to #stick to the #printbed. I can level the print bed and have the four angles at the right distance from the #nozzle (in fact the first extrusion sticks perfectly) but then the center is too low. I can place a little sheet of paper under the mat at the center of the print bed and then the center is ok, but some places around are lower... It's very #frustrating, and I really don't know what to do at this point...
Daniele Verducci 🧉Sep 26
Replacement parts for the #creality #ender5 #3Dprinter has arrived today and I just replaced it. The #fans don't seem original to me, so I swapped only the broken one. The new one didn't come with the correct #connector, so I decided to #desolder the old wire and solder it directly to the new fan's pcb. Soldering inside the cabinet isn't very confortable 😅 but I didn't want to remove it all and my electronics bench isn't large enough anyway... Anyway, repair is done!
Let's see it I can complete a little print!
Daniele Verducci 🧉Sep 25
I've got A LOT of failed prints with my #creality #ender5 #3Dprinter. It #clogs very easily. I tought the #filament was wet, but a couple of hours ago it #clogged very badly and I had to completely #disassemble the #extruder, #hotend and even cut a little piece of #bowdentube... before doing all this work I looked at a video explaining how to do it and...

...I SAW it. The #fan. The f...ing extruder fan in the video was running from the moment the #printer was switched on. I have never seen mine running, I always tought it was temperature controlled or something... It was just #jammed 🤦‍♂️ Unfortunately the plastic was very tired by the heat, so a blade broke instantly while cleaning it.

It seems I have to wait for a #replacement part, but at least I found the problem. That's why the printer was SO #temperamental!
Nate AllenMay 4, 2025
Well it took the whole day and flashing the board directly with a somewhat dodgy Creality app that's no longer maintained that I got off some random guy but I have #Klipper talking to my #Ender5. #3dprinting
tyxDec 17, 2024
Долгие Зимние Вечера (с), недостаток реализации крафтерских навыков и @skobkin хвастающийся принтером таки сподвигли меня на покупку.
Выцепил бушный ender 5 pro за стольник баксов (можно было за 70, но лень было ждать/торговаться) слегка поюзаный. Вот сижу думаю, что сначала - переделать на corexy и рельсы или запилить к нему MMU (смотрю в сторону SMuFF).
#3dprinting #ender5 #ender5pro
Migrated to @luana@wetdry.world 🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈Jun 24, 2024

Are there any filament sensor thingies for the Ender 5 Pro?

#3DPrinting #Ender5 #Ender #Creality #Creality3D

James M. WoodwardFeb 21, 2024

Pondering replacing the shaft and single passthrough stepper with dual steppers. Conceivably (if I add another endstop trigger I can make the printer correct for any skew in the gantry. I know it will do this for dual Z but I'm not sure how to make it do the same for dual Y axis steppers.

#3dprinting
#ender5-ish

James M. WoodwardFeb 12, 2024

I think I've now printed all of the normal and most of the "difficult" filaments;

  • PLA (+variants (silk, wood, etc)
  • PETG
  • ABS
  • ASA
  • HIPS
  • TPU (down to 80a)
  • PP
  • Nylon (PA-6 & 12)
  • PC

I have also used most of the CF & GF infused variants as well.

I have not used PVA as I don't have an AMS/MMU and I don't know of many other users for it.

On the list that I'd like to try but haven't needed; PEEK, PMMA. I am sure there's a smattering of other less common engineering materials but I haven't run into them.

PEEK looks like a helluva challenge, esp. Without a heated chamber. But overall not bad for a hobbyist with a heavily modified #Ender5.

#selffive

James M. WoodwardJan 15, 2024

It's kind of amazing to look back over my #3dPrinting journey. I started with an #Ender5 (pro) for no particular reason, and it's been one mod after another since day 1.

I know there are a lot of people that hate/do not enjoy that aspect and for them, newer walled garden tech like Bambu's hardware is lowering the barrier to entry and offering "push the button and it just works" solutions.

However, I'm a tinkerer at my core. Even as a child I got in trouble because I'd get a new toy and my parents would find me with a screwdriver later, taking it apart to figure out how it worked. That was playing to me.

These days you can only recognize my Ender from its chassis. Otherwise it's a whole, custom built machine.

  • Dual- Z mod
  • 120V bed heater
  • Micro Swiss direct drive
  • All Metal Hot end
  • 65W hot end heater element
  • BTT Skr Mini e3 V2 (soon to be a BTT Octopus)
  • Linear rails
  • Hybrid CoreXY
  • Custom cooling solution,
  • BLTouch (looking into a BD Sensor)

Through this gateway drug (like many people) I've been self-teaching #3DDesign, learned to edit Marlin and have a road map of endgame mods I want to do (independent Z control for auto bed leveling), AMS? MMU?, but who knows what's beyond that, I truly have a beast of a printer now. What a fun hobby!

TomNov 26, 2023

It's very yellow.

#3dprinting #ender5 #microswiss #mousetrap