Upgrade 3D Printer Accessories with All Metal Extruder Feeder, Capricorn Bowden Tubing, Pneumatic Couplers, Bed-Level Springs for Creality Ender 3/Ender 3 Pro/Ender 5 Pro/Ender 5 Plus Ender 3 Upgrades

This is a great little kit, don't get me wrong - it is great value and adds some small nice improvements but some of the reviews are outright misleading. No, this won’t increase your print quality basically at all Nor does it allow you to increase print speed in any way. The amount of factors that contribute to the end product of a print are many and tiny tweaks here and there can be either imperceptible or be the difference of printing a blob of ugly plastic spaghetti. Good calibration and tuning of your settings, steppers, flow rate, temps, retractions, leveling, and combing settings are going to have infinitely more of an impact on your print quality and speed than most physical upgrades and this product is no exception. If you want more out of your printer, look into those things first! Even if you have a 5 thousand dollar printer, it’s nothing without those tweaks! BUT That doesn’t mean it is a waste, far from it. I like this little kit and it’s a nice humble addition to my lovely soldier that is my Ender 3 Pro. My stock extruder clamp actually managed to snap one day after several months of use, but with this version I certainly won’t have that issue again! It fit really well and so long as you assemble it correctly, the tolerances and accuracy was excellent. Having tried one of the red “off brand” versions just prior, that thing sucked. This one has actual precision in its creation, I was actually amazed because I wasn’t really expecting much of a real difference either. I could go off about just how crappy the red one I got prior, but I digress. The Capricorn tubing is nice and it is better than the stock PTFE tubing, but it is also not magic either. The tolerances and precision of the tubing IS better, I checked. For most standard print materials like PLA and PETG, there is exactly zero difference using this, despite being superior. HOWEVER, with other filaments and special use cases, there IS a difference. Some TPUs and filaments that happen to run particularly hot (like, hot hot) you will actually find there is benefit to this tubing. I will give credit where credit is due there, I just don’t want people getting the wrong idea that these things just magically make better prints - it just isn’t that simple most of the time. The addition of the bed springs is, I mean, sure why not? I hope I don’t really need to explain that this isn’t going to be magic either, but they seem very well made and I imagine will hold their leveling for a while. At the end of the day - Yes it is a solid upgrade IF you have already given your printer the proper love and attention so it can do it’s best already. The added durability of parts and flexibility for options, coupled with a nice style - I do certainly recommend it. Just make sure you actually understand it before falling into the placebo of magically better prints like some reviews seem to have done. That isn’t anecdotal evidence that it doesn’t improve prints - It is just straight up not really how a 3D printer works. But if you want a lil upgrade for your Ender 3, by all means this is a good choice.

Works great held on well and is over all great

This replacement Filament Extruder and Upgraded Capricorn tubing has been a game changer. Getting rid of the polymer stock extruder has given me peace of mind. It was super easy to install and is very durable being metal constructions. The Capricorn tubing helps accuracy with your prints and allows it to flow through the hot end better. I highly recommend everyone should upgrade to this all Metal Extruder.

This metal extruder made for a nice upgrade on my Ender 3 Pro. The plastic factory extruder cracked and this kit includes a much higher quality metal extruder. Instructions are included, but there may be a tiny bit of variation depending on your printer. My packaging was missing the screws that hold the filament tension spring in place. With the old plastic extruder in hand I was able to salvage some pieces to make everything fit. The Capricorn bowden tubing included in the packaging works great so far too. I'm familiar with using Capricorn tubing and this seems legitimate and has held up throughout a week of constant printing. There should be enough Capricorn tubing for 2 uses, but it varies depending on your setup. The only thing included I did not use were the bed springs. I already have silicone bed mount spacers that work well and didn't want to mess with the great results they were providing. For the $15 price, there is a lot of value here! The metal extruder is quite the upgrade and is much easier to load filament.

Everything came packed in some transparent bags. The extruder is very easy to assemble, it came with instructions but they are not even necessary. Very satisfied with the product. You should take on account that this is not going to improve your print quality. This upgrade is intended to increse extrusion performance. The original extruder, plastic, can broke on time and it is more prone to skip. The metal one is intended to work for more time without issues. Also, I would highly recommend to attach an stress relief device before the extruder. It will reduce friction on the input hole and avoid hole wear. It is metal, yes, but 300m of PLA can erode that metal and kill your extruder. Edit: The Capricorn really is a mandatory upgrade. It will increase your print quality in another level. Currently, I changed from 4mm retract to 2mm and I'm thinking about setting it to 1mm. There is no stringing at all and the fit is just exact. One important point, it is so thigh I'm having trouble with filament change. Overall, I feels like having a direct extruder.

What can I say to convince you to get this? Let me start with what I am running. I have an ender 3 v2 with a hictop pei flex bed plate. Updated bed springs, and that’s really all. For the time of owning this printer I’ve upgraded a few things but never the extruder component. Didn’t think it was a necessity, I mean I was getting prints right? Would something so simple make that much of a difference? Well one day trying to print and my filament was not being extruded correctly. My e-steps, I thought we’re on point but i increased them to see if that would fix it. No amount of increase helped, it was inconsistent, spotty, crappy, and down right disgusting. I took apart the plastic extruder to find the arm had cracked along the gear housing, just like so many people have happen before. I looked at dual gear extruders, not knowing if it would be that important for what I print and decided to get this one. Immediately after instal I checked my e-steps and once I returned it to where it was before, 97.2, it was extruding perfectly. The upgrade all metal extruder almost seemed to be too stiff, I was worried that it would chew the filament because of how tight it seemed. Leveled the bed again, ran the test prints to ensure the leveling was on point. The filament is running so constantly, I haven’t had and issues with what I was before. So printed a Pokémon, fidget spinner, and a few other things. All came out perfect. I was getting results I hadn’t gotten before. I know they say that this won’t really improve print quality but I argue that 100 percent. Why wouldn’t creality include this off the factory floor? It’s such a blessing to have my worries about prints failing lessened. My prints have such a smooth finish it’s amazing this is still the same printer. I’m not getting those whispy filament pieces from travel, I’m able to increase the printing speed, and I’m not running the temps as hot as I was before. Yes I’m sure you need to make sure your slicer settings are tuned in. The thing is, my slicer settings were tuned when I was running the old extruder. My setting were tuned to make up for the unknown issues of the plastic extruder. So in short, GET THIS, get it as soon as possible, this should one of the first things to upgrade.

Calling this an upgrade kit is generous. This is the parts bin that fixes the three things every Ender eventually does to you. The plastic extruder arm cracks. Not if, when. The metal frame in this kit replaces it before it strands you at hour nine of a twelve hour print, and the tension feels consistent instead of vaguely optimistic. The Capricorn tube has a tighter, smoother bore than stock, so retraction actually does something and stringing drops. The stiffer springs mean my bed level survives more than two prints. One thing matters more than all of it. Cut the Bowden tube square. Use a real tube cutter, not side snips, and seat it fully into the hot end before you clip the coupler in. A crooked cut leaves a gap where filament pools and cures into a clog you will spend a Saturday chasing. Cheap parts, big return, about an hour of work.

So, I saw the writing on the wall for my old plastic extruder; no cracks in the body of it, but the odd tube holder attachments just snapped the other day (I tended to place my thumb on them when changing filament). I did a little research, since I knew I had an Ender 3 Pro with a pressed in hobbed bolt on my extruder motor (from what I've seen, this only accounts for a couple years of production for the model, so check for yourselves if you have them). And since I really didn't want to replace my stepper motor, I thought this upgrade should work with what I had, better than most other non OEM setups. I was correct with my assumption. Assembly wasn't bad, took me about 20 minutes following the exploded diagram sent with the package. I really can't say it's printing that much better than the stock item, but I can see a difference in ease of loading filament for sure. With all that said, I thought it was a great inexpensive add-on to my printer. I got the added capricorn tubing and springs as spares, since I already had them on my setup. (worthwhile backup items)

The ptfe tube is original from Capricorn PTFE. Excellent quality. Was worth the price

Es indispensable tener un kit de estos por cualquier detalle que le vayan surgiendo a tus máquinas, piezas de buena calidad que te sacan del apuro compatibles con ender 3 y ender 3 pro, buen servicio llegaron antes y hasta la fecha siguen funcionando... 100% recomendable.

Très bon produit. Ne pas trop tendre le ressort de l'extrudeur par contre, car après la roulette déforme le filament et il passe moins bien dans le tuyau ptfe. Pour les ressort que du bonheur.

Bought this to install on Ender 3 v2. It contains all the main upgrade bits in one kit - you might be able to find elsewhere for a bit cheaper but there's some convenience in having it all together and getting the official parts. 1) install is relatively easy. The Bowden tube does not include a cutter to endsure a nice square cut so it took a few tries to get it right, otherwise everything else is simple enough for somebody who has already assembled their printer 2) This addresses most of the main complaints/issues with this printer - arguably this should be included out of the box, but I guess they want to keep their pricing lower 3) You could install all this while you're building the printer, but recommend installing it after you've completed the 'stock' printer and tested it to eliminate troubleshooting issues and to familiarize yourself with the setup/operation of the printer itself. 4) Overall the print quality seems to be the same, although these parts will help with durability of printer and more consistency (e.g. bed levelling springs) Highly recommended for anybody with a Ender 3v2!

Very easy to install. Instructions are clear and include pictures.