dude… have you been printing with steel cable instead of filament?
Haha 😂
Oof
Yeah that’d do it alright
Planing to upgrade or just repair?
Well I moved it up by around 3mm on the bar…so if the current print turns out, I’m good.
What upgrades were you thinking?
You should look into a dual gear extruder. They’re a slight upgrade from this kind and do a lot better without wearing out. If you want a bigger upgrade though, look into a BMG clone. It’s great for direct drive if you decide that you want to do that at some point. It has a 3:1 gear ratio so you’d need to adjust e-steps, but it’s really efficient.
I have to second this. A dual geared BMG clone was the best upgrade I did for my Ender 3 pro.
Thanks for the recommendation… Do you have a link to a good one? Seems like there’s a ton of option on Amazon.
What’s the benefits of a direct drive?
keep in mind that when you change the extruder gear you need to calibrate your E-steps.
Even if you replace it with an identical gear? That seems unlikely. You should only have to recalibrate if you change the tooth count.
Well, what is the worst that could happen?
Even if it is the identical gear, you probably would get the same value but you are sure that it is correct since you calibrated it. On the other hand, not doing the calibration because you think it is the identical gear you could get over or under extrusion and are wondering why it happens because “it should be the same gear” and possibly look in the completely wrong direction trying to fix the result.
There is not really any harm in checking and being sure instead of assuming and then having to deal with the result.
That’s a good point. I concede.
