Ok so I actually found a good deal on Amazon Prime day for something that’s useful (I think)…the direct sprite extruder is $30 off (in Canada). Seems to have good reviews, but I don’t know what it actually improves. My printer gets about as much TLC as my hammers, and aside from this under-extrusion bs I’ve been trying to figure out, it’s still banging out prints. Thoughts?

Thanks!

  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 år siden

    That’s not true, those gears (especially in the stock ender Bowden setups) are extremely trash. It doesn’t even take a lot of filament to get visible wear on the teeth to the point you get slippage.

    Coupled with it being a single gear means wear on the teeth is even more prone to failure.

    There’s a reason all of the higher quality extruders are double gear and hardened steel teeth vs. bronze. Just like nozzles wear out so do extruders

      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 år siden

        Not really, first thing is going to happen is it’s going to start under extruding and the flow is interrupted (trust me I have multiple ender 3’s, I’ve lived this :D )

        Eventually no amount of adjusting will fix it, but at the start you’ll just get some weird layer lines, under extrusion, retraction issues. It’ll just get worse and worse

        I REALLY hate the ender extruders hehe. I do have to admit they did train me to troubleshoot extruder issues really well though