Review on 🔧 Optimized Extruder with Capricorn Silicone by Creality by Anthony Cornelius

After using my Ender 3 Pro for a few months, I started using it a lot more as I really started to understand how custom parts are made on the fly will. brings my projects many steps up. I bought this, an upgraded motherboard (between it and the BIGTREETECH board but felt the need to stick with Creailty. The board works great and works fine with the BLTouch) and a few miscellaneous small tensioner/extruder parts. I installed everything at once without BLTouch which installed a few days later. First impression: I don't understand how it upgrades without a tube. It looks exactly like a brick from top to bottom. I figured the "improvements" might be internal, so I went along with it. Print quality has been significantly improved with additional calibration of tension systems and general tension and alignment adjustments. The 1.1.5 motherboard is awesome and as quiet as they say. A few days later I installed the BLTouch and TH3D firmware and eventually purchased Simplify3D and I was printing amazing, detailed and reliable items. Fast forward less than a week which brings me back to yesterday. I wrote a lot with the installation. Many of the prints were filled with parts that ran 5-8 hours at a time. After 2 hours of printing some transparent parts, I changed the filament and printed a translucent green mixed with a translucent blue. When I switched to green thread while purging, the extruder motor/assembly started sticking and made a horrible noise when it couldn't feed material. Temperature readings all looked normal. Nozzle as always "hot". but the minimum filament came out of the nozzle. I cleaned the nozzle, disassembled the tube and extruder, and reinstalled the hotend assembly. I tried downloading the thread again and encountered the same problem. I removed the nozzle and blew the filament and there was virtually no melt. I should have seen some stretch in the full size filament but there was none. After thinking about the issue and realizing that there are multiple potential points of failure (hot end, motherboard, wiring), I went through the difficult process of removing the sleeve from the bundle. Wires carrying all the wires from the hotend, fan and BLTouch and the hotend assembly back to stock. After reassembling the bundle, repackaging and securing it in my printed clips, I booted the printer and ran the filament swap function again. Worked great. So the problem was actually in the article listed here. I am returning the entire package for a refund. Maybe I'm just unlucky, but I'm not impressed with this article. Nothing about it looks modernized in any way. You're better off just getting a Capricorn tube and you'll at least have enough to replace it a few times as the filament becomes abrasive over time. I'm using Revain credit to buy a branded hot end, thermistor, etc. I have no problem buying name brand items like spanners as they are all metal and hardware and it is very easy to work over imperfections. Product. It's not the same with something like that. piss off!