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

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Details

  • Brand
    Micro-Swiss
  • Material
    Steel
  • Color
    Silver
  • Product Dimensions
    0.39"D x x
  • Compatible Devices
    Laptop
📏Filament: 1.75mm
🔧Nozzle: 0.4mm
🇺🇸Made in USA

Description

🚀 Elevate Your 3D Printing Game!

  • DURABLE BUILD - Crafted from high-quality alloy steel and aluminum for long-lasting performance.
  • COMMUNITY APPROVED - Join a growing community of makers who trust Microswiss for their 3D printing needs.
  • PRECISION ENGINEERING - Experience flawless prints with a 0.4mm nozzle for ultimate detail.
  • UNIVERSAL COMPATIBILITY - Seamlessly fits a range of popular Creality printers, including CR-10 and Ender series.
  • USER FRIENDLY INSTALLATION - Quick and easy setup means you can get back to printing in no time.

The Microswiss Direct Drive Extruder is designed for compatibility with various Creality printers, featuring a precision 0.4mm nozzle and supporting 1.75mm filament. Made in the USA, this durable extruder enhances your printing experience with easy installation and reliable performance.

Specifications

ColorSilver
Enclosure MaterialSteel Aluminium
Compatible MaterialAlloy Steel
Compatible DevicesLaptop, Smartphone
Item Dimensions D x W x H0.39"D x 0.39"W x 0.39"H

Have a Question? See What Others Asked

What's the benefit/function of this product over just the Micro Swiss Hotend upgrade for ~$35 less?
Will this work with creality cr10s pro v2?
Can i make this work for a cr-10 v2?
I already have the micro swiss hotend for my ender 3. do you have just the direct drive kit on your amazon store?

Reviews

4.6

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D**D

Great addition to 3D printer! So glad I finally got and installed it!

Very good quality and well built, excellent machining! One of the best items I have added to the 3D printing experience. Improves performance and reduces the amount of clogged nozzles, if used correctly. Have bought other products from them and have always been highly satisfied!

J**.

Fantastic CR-10 upgrade

I ordered this upgrade for my CR-10 after I had some sort of failure of the factory extrusion head that caused my heating block, heat sink, and fans to become a giant, fist sized ball of plastic. I had been wanting to go to direct drive for a while, based on experience with some other printers with it, and this failure was the push I needed to order the Micro-Swiss kit.The Micro-Swiss kit is exceptionally well made, the base bracket is machined aluminum, and it all fit together very easily following the video that is linked from their website. They include a small business card with a QR code that takes you to the video, which is nice.I did have one small issue, the countersink for the shoulder screw for the lever arm wasn’t quite deep enough, and as a result, the screw would pinch the lever arm tight against the base bracket when tightened down, rather than the lever arm floating on the screw shoulder. I fixed that with some very light filing of the back side of the lever arm pivot boss to effectively make it thinner, it took only a few passes of a fine tooth file to get it to fit as intended, so, I consider this within the regular fit and finish of installing something like this, but could be fixed at the factory by cutting the screw countersink jsut a hair deeper.I calibrated the steps on my CR-10 following a few videos off YouTube, and I settled on 139.25 steps per mm as optimal. One other thing that must be done is offsetting the X and Y home, as the true, limit switch driven home now hangs off the build plate a bit.I am getting beautiful extrusion with this direct drive kit; the dual mesh drive rollers really bite hard into the filament, and the heat brake works amazing. You can heat the head up, unload the filament drive lever, and pull the filament back out of the hot end no problem, and the end that comes out looks like it’s been clipped by a pair of scissors! No swelling of the end in the brake like some hot ends, no stringy tail, just a clean square end. The first time I pulled the filament back when doing the step calibration I thought it broke off in the extruder, but, 3 more tails exactly the same has me convinced The heat brake just works that good!I’m running a .8mm nozzle in my CR-10 at 70mm/s speed and this extruder kit has absolutely no issue keeping up!

P**O

Excellent extruder

I use for replace the extruder of my Artillery X1, good built. It works perfectly.

A**O

Direct Drive is the way to go

I have finally replaces all 3 my old extruder bowden setup for this direct drive. Pretty straight forward to install. My first install, months ago, I ran into an issue with extruder gear being reversed so had to cross some wires. It took me a few days to figure that out. This last go round took me about an hour, uninstalling old, installing new, and calibration. I replaced 2 CR-10s and 1 Ender 3. For all 3 printers setting esteps to 140.7, retraction to 1mm, printing at 50mm/s works well. I can set and forget. the blue tube provider is kinda hard to feed curved filament, so I snipped it. This permits me to guide filament in with ease. Also they way you tighten nozzle is you hold the neck with a wrench (theres perfect slots for the wrench) and tighten nozzle with another wrench. This prevents the whole heat block from rotating. The nozzle that comes with the bundle is also pretty good. Didn't have to calibrate it. Still prints at standard temps, speeds, and flows. The only clogs I've had were because I was printing way to slow for first layer 10mm/s and I learned I don't need to print that slow. I also had to increase my tolerances to .3mm from .2mm for things to fit snug. The extruder must extrude a little more filament. One could mess with the wall settings/flow settings but its easier to just increase by .1mm for me.

E**S

Nice

This was such as good deal. I paid 3 times as much for the same part 10 years ago.

M**.

Nozzle doesn't seem to work well with petg compared to others

I installed this on my Creality Ender 3 v2. Installation was straight forward and well documented with photos. You have to download a PDF from the micro swiss site, as no paper instructions are included, but this wasn't an issue for me. It would have been nice if some of the hardware was included in the kit (bolts etc), but you can reuse some from your stock Creality hot end to get the job done.Unfortunately, this kit is not compatible with the ender 3 v2 fan assembly without printing a fan shroud. Not a huge deal, but still something I wish I had noticed prior to buying this kit. I don't know what they are thinking recommending the fan shroud to be printed in PLA, as mine (printed in petg) is getting decently hot. Maybe if you are only using the hot end to print low temperature materials, this would be fine.The extruder and the hot end are working really well. The direct drive gears fit perfectly, pulling the filament smoothly during printing and retractions. The hot end seems to be performing well without any appreciable heat creep towards the extruder (at least in the ~20 hrs of printing I've done @245C).I did have to raise my printing temperature to get the same results using this all metal hot end, but that is something that is suggested in the instructions. The major issue I have with this is that the stainless steel nozzle that this comes with seems to stick really badly to petg compared to other nozzles I have used. Petg tends to be a pain as far as globbing up on nozzles of certain material, so I guess that's okay. I just wish it had come with maybe a spare nozzle of a different material at this price point. Some of the machined parts had a few deep scratches and gouges in them, which isn't pretty, but I don't think it will affect the performance of this assembly.I might end up getting a different hot end and extruder setup for my next printer, as there are a decent number of quality options around this price point. The ease of installation is definitely what made me decide to buy this, as it's nearly a drop in replacement for the printers it's compatible with. Overall, I do not regret this purchase at all, but I do think there is room for improvement in the parts included.

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