I spent entirely way too much time trying to get one of these style extruders on my Ender 3. Maybe I picked a knock off without realizing it, maybe mine was just defective, I'm not entirely sure.
But it was ultimately the cause for my printer underextruding on certain layers. If you need a new extruder, go for something better than these cheap $20 ones and get an actually decent one.
But on the bright side, my printer is finally fixed! It feels nice to be able to get back into the hobby again.
Crap, I bought one of these and it worked well for a few months, but now my printer has been under extruding for a while and I couldn't figure out why. Do you have a better recommendation?
I ended up switching to this one:
https://store.micro-swiss.com/products/micro-swiss-bowden-dual-gear-extruder
I've heard good things about micro swiss, so hopefully this one will last.
I love my Micro Swiss dual gear extruder. I have some homemade filament made from PET bottles that won't print on a single gear extruder but prints perfectly on the dual gear extruder.
I'm glad it is working well for you.
I'm probably gonna print a mount for it to make it a direct drive extruder, but for now I am just so glad that it works at all that I kinda want to print other things for the time being. It's been almost 8 months since I last had it working.
Neat! I use one of the metal Creality extruders, which seems to work fine, but maybe this is the next step in my quest to nail my extrusion...
It cost a bit, but this is the single best upgrade I have made to my Ender 3.
Awesome, thanks! Just ordered one off Amazon. Hoping this does the trick.
Good luck!