Micro-Swiss All Metal Hotend Kit for Creality CR-10s PRO/CR-10 Max/Ender 3 V2 Neo

First of all, this is my third printer Ive installed this on. I was wanting to print some high temps, and wanted the freedom of the nozzle size, since I have lots of extra nozzles. I was able to get this installed in about 30 minutes. Ever since, its been working flawlessly and Ive been getting much better prints off it.

When comparing print quality, the Micro+Swiss towers over the others I have tested, You Must follow the instructions! (RTFB!)

This hotend has its ups and downs. Personally Im switching back to the original one that came with my CR-10S PRO. I never had any issues with it and this one keeps getting clogged up. I know what Im doing and Ive seated it correctly but it still clogs up. If I turn on the printer after its been resting I make sure to turn the nozzle heat up to 230 degrees and make sure it is flowing nicely prior to starting the next print. It still clogged up on me on two separate occasions. Both after 24 hours of printing. Trust me, that sucks! Ive wasted enough filament on this and have ordered an original replacement from Creality.

I was quite concerned about switching since I still do use PLA and PETG quite a bit. I thought I would have to wait until I got another printer in order to have one installed with an all metal hot end and keep the other stock for PLA and PETG, but I was quite wrong. Very happy with this product. I have gotten one or two clogs, but without the capricorn tube digging all the way through the cooling block, it is a sinch to simply pop off the tube and use some nylon filament to remove the jam with a hot pull. Again though, the jams are not happening ANYWHERE near as much as many reviews made me fear before I bought this. Only thing I do recommend is that you play with the heat settings yourself. They recommend that you increase the temp by about 5 to 10 degrees after making this switch but I found that my materials do better with 5 degrees less. They come out much cleaner and very well fused. Not sure if its just my hot end is a bit hot, but since I did decrease the temp I have not had a clog. Also huge huge huge important part to this is the retraction. Remember to both reduce your retraction and to tinker with your retraction speed and restart distance (distance that the printer starts at after a retraction). There is no perfect setting, you just need to tinker with it a bit. It will make your life so much easier by making sure you dont end with tons of clogs and that your prints look clean and tidy without stringing.

Ordered the wrong hot end due to the reviews saying it fits the ender 3. Now Im stuck with a part I cant use.

As I have been slowly gaining more experience with 3D printing, I started hitting some snags when trying to print on glass. After a lot of trial and error, I thought I was getting close. Then, the exiting extruder clogged, impressively. I swapped out the original CR10S Pro V1 print head with this one, and it’s been working perfectly! Just as the directions indicated, it was a simple drop-in replacement. I have not had any clogging, or other issues to speak of. I am now getting very consistent prints with PLA directly on glass! This is super cool because the parts just pop off the bed as it cools. Adding this, in case anyone else is having issues with the CR10S Pro V1 and glass: After some trial and error and seeing my 1st layers being so close to the bed, nothing can be extruded too not close enough to work, I am now sure that the inductive sensor is at fault. If I warm up everything, re-home the printer prior to every print, it works well. (Hoping that the Tiny Machines 3D BL Touch Kit for Creality CR-10S Pro 3D Printers will fix this ... fingers-crossed)

Ender 5 actually printed 100% better with stock hot end. I assumed if I was getting better than good results with stock - aftermarket would be slaptastic... Heat dissipation seemed to be a problem. Had to Over temp settings to get similar result. Switched back to stock hot end. Seems to be very popular with many - I was surprised at the loss of quality out of the box. I eventually got a decent result. Ill be saving for another build - Still using stock hot end.

Awesome product, only wish printers would ship this way stock.

I have never had so much confidence in my CR10 MAX until I put this on. Biggest difference other than quality is that you can use normal threaded nozzles! Great product. I’m never scared to print even really large things.

This started out strong. Good prints. But now, it has died. Well, inside the part that screws to the heater block with a tiny allen screw eventually died. And no matter what I do, it just doesnt print