Micro Swiss Direct Drive Extruder for Creality CR-10 / Ender 3 Printers

I purchased this as an Upgrade to my Ender 3v2 hotend and extruder. First, I have never gotten a print any better than what the stock hotend and extruder gave me. Actually, quality has decreased. It has gotten better, but I have spent HOURS tweaking settings trying figure out what this thing wants to see. I lost ALL adhesion on first layer (after releveling the bed and and resetting Z offset). Swapped back to stock and no issues with adhesion. Not sure what thats all about, but was a huge struggle. Had to go to a glue stick, then to PEI sheet which is awesome. Then the extraction settings... Nowhere close to the recommended setting from MicroSwiss. I am running a fifth of their recommendation for distance and at faster speeds. It is very well made- no question. I just wish I hadnt gone this route. Caused a lot of needed frustration and expense with wasted prints. I was ready to throw the MicroSwiss away and go back to stock. Probably still should since I get better results. I just hate spending that much money to take a step backwards in quality.

We have had this item replaced due to clogging. Within the last two prints, the replacement device has clogged multiple times. Checked the hot end temps and compared to the filaments utilized. Temps/temp preferences matched.

While this extruder looks high quality with beautifully machined and polished aluminum, I must say Im not impressed with the design. It consistently has TERRIBLE jamming problems when printing TPU, which is one of the filaments direct-drives are supposed to be better at. It also tends to conduct a lot of heat to the motor, as its mounted directly to the aluminum plate which gets quite hot. There really should be a thermal barrier. Overall I am not impressed given the very exuberant price. The OMG extruder is less than half the price, is more configurable, and performs much better.

87.5

Fast shipping, high quality, fast installation. Would order again.

Ive done a printed direct drive in the past for my Ender 3, and was printing and collecting parts to do the same on my CR-10, but as the designers of various systems do, they upgrade their prints and take down their previous designs, which can leave you out in the cold if you didnt download the original STLs. So I was having issues putting the new one together the same as the old one. I decided to buy this Micro Swiss direct drive extruder to see if it was worth the hype. I installed it this morning using the supplied instructions on their website (pdf download), and everything was straight forward. No hiccups. No leftover parts, and better yet, no trips to my bins to find missing hardware. This is great! Done in about an hour. Follow up with setting your offsets if needed, and youre done. Print quality is great too. I had been printing with a .6mm nozzle for a long time, as its a bit faster, and doesnt clog at all, but I forgot what quality of print you can get from a .4mm nozzle as is supplied with this setup. Looks great! Ive tried both ABS and TPU already, and both came out excellent!

I picked this up to start modifying my creality ender 3 and this made a world of difference with my prints with both quality and speed.

As I titled.

Great manual. Great video instructions. Great results, working with PLA+ and PetG very well.

I used this to replace a worn out extruder on a Tevo Tornado (CR10 Clone). The process went very smoothly and after adjusting the Z Offset its been printing beautifully. Im using this system to print Taulman 230 Nylon and the direct drive handles this filament very well. If youre thinking about converting a Bowden system to a direct drive Id highly recommend this one.