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

I own an Ender 3 v2, I thinks its reasonable to say its a VERY popular start point. Having to print your own shroud is one thing, but theres no holes or bracket for mounting my CR touch. Its getting returned

Quick install. Just change your esteps and replace gcode on slicer for start offsets. If your current extruder has the pressed in gear you will need a new motor with a flat on the shaft for the drive gear. I went with a pancake stepper to save weight. And decided to not use a Bowden tube.

Great diversity with different types of filaments

Best upgrade you can do. Calibrate your E-steps, reset your home location and you’re good to go. Eliminating my Bowden tube has been he best thing ever.

This modification works well and simplifies 3D printing.

Followed setup instructions to the tee. Heated to 220 literally went to snug a loose nozzle and it sheared off in the hotend. Out 100 bucks. This is garbage!

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.

I chucked this and a BLTouch on my CR-10s and my whole 3D printing life got easier, and more reliable.

From what I can tell it extrudes just fine, the issue is that no matter how tightly I screw everything together the hotend has play when it is heated up. Ive checked to see if anything stripped and from what I can tell they have not.

Works amazing, dramatically improved my prints over my stock ender 3 hotend Wire routing is a bit annoying, ended up running mine under the extruder motor and out the back. I think the microswiss Ng would make this easier. The issue is the extruder motor and wiring get in the way for either the side structure or the top structure.