Micro Swiss Bowden Dual Gear Extruder Compatible with Creality Ender, CR10, CR-10 Pro, CR-10S, CR6-SE, Tornado

Best upgrade I’ve done so far, however… My Ender 3 Pro came with the extruder stepper motor with a press fit gear, which was a pain to remove, but I was able to use it once I did. I highly recommend buying a stepper motor with the flat shaft if your printer doesn’t have one already. Removing the old gear is not worth the trouble considering a new motor is under $20 from Creality, but if you’re impatient like me, it can be done lol. **if you do decide to use the press fit motor, make sure you don’t over-tighten the grub screw on the new gear. I made that mistake and a crack formed on the gear, I was able to get it replaced though and the new one has been working perfectly for over 2 months.

This print was taken straight from the printer... no spider webs... This combined with the Hero printhead mod drastically improved my printing... I also think my popup enclosure helps as I keep my house on the cold side.

So far it seems about 100x better than the Creality aluminum extruder when it comes to tpu. Make sure to follow the instructions and get the tube chamfered and as close to the gears as possible

Works great on a anycubic vyper

Works as expected. Good quality.

Good.

This is an excellent extruder and has given me zero issues. I picked this up (along with an enclosure) to be able to print TPU on an Ender 3 V2 with a Capricorn PTFE tube bowden setup. It is easy to install being a direct drop in replacement for the stock Ender 3 V2 extruder which is infamous for failing. I did not have any issues with my stock extruder, but opted for this one to enable printing TPU and to get ahead of the stock one eventually failing. It is easy to adjust tension for different filaments, even on the fly. Loading/unloading filaments is night and day different to the stock extruder. This one handles most imperfections easily. If you would like to be able to print flexible filaments but are not sold on direct drive, or just looking for an extruder upgrade that is a direct replacement this is an excellent option.

I have used Bowden Direct Drives for years. This is a nice add on or upgrade.

As part of the installation, you need to cut the bowden tube from the extruder into a 45 degree point. That was annoying, trying to bevel it correctly. I would have preferred an included tube, with the cut already made. Other than that, it works well with PLA, Nylon and TPU.

Ive tried other extruders and this one is finally a good improvement over the others. Before I installed it I printed two models for comparison after the install. My printer already has many upgrades already so any improvement would be small anyway. But I did notice an improvement at the edges of parts over the stock Ender design. So Id recommend it if you want to add just a little more precise control on the extrusion. The parts are really well machined and the two gears really grip the filament well. The bowden tube is held in place using a brass flare fitting which Id never seen before in this application. It works great but you have to tighten it well so the brass fitting gets squished just like you are fixing a water pipe fitting. Thats the way its supposed to work so nothing is wrong. It wont come off the tube after that so you might want to buy more of the little flare rings for future use, just go to Amazon to buy them.