New 3D Printer

[Chris Savage]

I have had terrible pain three out of five days this week. Plus we have had out of the house appointments for every day except for Monday - when we were too tired to do anything. Well, next week should be better - I hope.

Hope you feel better soon. 

[granz]

Feel better. That's an ORDER!! lol 

Sir, Yes, Sir! 

[granz]

Good luck on your printer, I need to try mine again.

Hope you feel better soon. 

Thank you, both of you guys.

[granz]

What does the nozzle look like?? If it's like the Neptune 2, those are really cheap. 

Edit: looked.  Do you just replace the whole hotend assembly to change nozzles??

Yeah, it looks like you replace the entire hotend. If that's all that I need, I found one for $35, with two-day delivery (less than $2 more than one which will be delivered in later Sept. ) If I need the entire assembly, then that raises it up to $85 (with tax, that is over the price of my printer, plus shipping, no estimate on shipping cost, nor do they even try to give a delivery date.) I also found an extruder assembly on Amazon, but that is $130, plus tax, and delivery is also the second half of September.

I'm going to quit for now. Maybe after an evening with my girl-friend (best friend/buddy/partner/lover/wife ) and a good night's sleep, things won't looks so bad.

Well, I finally found out how to remove the hot end. The original single duct fan venting was replaced by the guy that sold it to me, and replaced with a better dual-duct vent (blows from both sides of the hot end.) Unfortunately, this also blocked the hot end and prevented me from being able to pull it out.

I found a video where You Tuber, Just Vlad, showed accessories for this printer. One of the accessories was the dual-duct vent. Although I had found these before, this was the first video where he showed how to replace the original.

(Check out starting at the 17:00 time point.)

With this, I was able to remove the vent, and pull the hot end. There was some filament which was stuck in the hot end, so I had to clip that, and remove the filament. New hot end went in nice and easy, replace the filament with a roll straight out of the Zip-loc with the desiccant, and...

(This is an epoxy mixing tray. A simple quick print that 3D Printing Canada shows on what to do with the last little bit of filament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVHDMfWe0c&t=357s)

There is one more thing that I want to print. Just Vlad mentions in the video that the Bowden tube is a bit loose on the feeder mechanism. So, he put one of these (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2994683 braces in and it cleaned up the stringing really nicely.

[granz]

...Worst case, there have been a few people who say that replacing the nozzle (about $35) makes the printer run like new. After that, I'll need to make sure to set the printer settings correctly.

Well, after (finally) getting the nozzle replaced, I have to agree. Having a working 3D printer is lots of fun. I can hardly wait for the larger print volume and multi-color printing of the A1.