I spent entirely way too much time trying to get one of these style extruders on my Ender 3. Maybe I picked a knock off without realizing it, maybe mine was just defective, I’m not entirely sure.

But it was ultimately the cause for my printer underextruding on certain layers. If you need a new extruder, go for something better than these cheap $20 ones and get an actually decent one.

But on the bright side, my printer is finally fixed! It feels nice to be able to get back into the hobby again.

    • edjsage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I love my Micro Swiss dual gear extruder. I have some homemade filament made from PET bottles that won’t print on a single gear extruder but prints perfectly on the dual gear extruder.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I’m glad it is working well for you.

        I’m probably gonna print a mount for it to make it a direct drive extruder, but for now I am just so glad that it works at all that I kinda want to print other things for the time being. It’s been almost 8 months since I last had it working.

    • ollien@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Neat! I use one of the metal Creality extruders, which seems to work fine, but maybe this is the next step in my quest to nail my extrusion…

    • ollien@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Neat! I use one of the metal Creality extruders, which seems to work fine, but maybe this is the next step in my quest to nail my extrusion…

    • jballsEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      Awesome, thanks! Just ordered one off Amazon. Hoping this does the trick.