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

This modification works well and simplifies 3D printing.

Great addition to my modified Ender 3 Pro. Not a single jam, no slipping, and helps reduce the tuning required between material changes compared to the original hot end setup. Would buy again in a heartbeat.

Installed this for my modded Ender 3 Pro. The extruder itself is fine but the hotend sucks. It has no supporting screws so it is free roaming, and also leaks filament constantly. For something that is nearly $100 Id expect much better. Update: Microswiss offered to send a replacement hotend and was very helpful when I contacted them. Everything works great!

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!

Got this just in time, shipped right away. Opened the box and you can see everything is in there nothing is missing. Everything looks like it’s good quality material and well made. Can’t wait to start big projects.

I bought this to replace an old hemera and it has been nothing but trouble. I followed the directions perfectly and it has leaked hot filament between the heat block and the hot end consistently. Its destroyed several good prints because it sneaks up on you. Ive re tightened at 260 degrees plus several times and now finally I think it could be stripped due to over tightening. What an epic waste of time and money.

Takes a while to get the hang of the direct drive but works well.

I never did get good prints from mine. Ended up selling the whole printer and starting over with a new one.

Used this to upgrade my Tevo Tornado. All the instructions worked but the stepper ran the wrong way. Change the Custom Extension cable to a strait extension cable (cut and res-solder) and it works great. Could not be more happy.

My prints were mostly coming out fine, as long as I was using PLA. But once I started using PETG, I started having issues, mostly just prints not completing. After this upgrade, I can start a PETG print and just walk away. Adhesion is perfect, and the rest of the print finishes flawlessly. Make sure to adjust your refraction settings to 1.5mm as the instructions say, and you should have no issues.