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!
Anything is better then the stock extruder setup that comes with Enders. If you are under extruding, calibrate your esteps. Extruder teeth wear out over time.
That being said, the sprite is def. a step up from stock and 30 bucks off is a pretty decent deal
There’s no way wear on the teeth is enough to throw it out.
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
By then it’d be jumping and skipping like mad and no calibrating would save it.
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