Very annoyed with Amazon, Creality Store and bean, just on GP. But mostly with myself, for not being able to resist fucking with a working printer... Ordered from Creality Store the single-drive CNC Extruder kit; the purchase let me get one of my fans next day. What arrived, however... was the same stupid cheap POS I could've gotten elsewhere for ~$7 less. I have the REAL Creality extruder on my Tornado; there simply is no comparison in the quality, especially the screws and couplers. And this POS doesn't even have the spring tension adjuster. My fault tho... I was tired, annoyed with my printer, and I should've looked at the pic closer; I picked the red one because it was supposed to be genuine CReality and the grey one like I have on my Tornado was
"Prime, in stock, but you'll get it in a month" BS.
Found a local supplier offering genuine Creality hotend kit with oodles of extra bits for only $US22; got that and a meter of Capricorn XS and some cogged idlers for US$46 W/Tax. The Creality kit will give me a known good hotend complete I can just drop in and finish printing the Fang, then have another as a spare and for fucking around with my weird hotend fetish.
I REALLY hate the heat-block they use in the Mk8; it's the absolute cheapest grub-screw retention POS you can get from literally the stone-age of 3DP. I get rid of it and replace with slot & clamp type block with extreme prejudice ever since I had one in a hotend smoke me out of the room on my Tarantula; I could literally see the cartridge glowing red on the side held away from the block by the grub-screw. Thing I can't understand is why this one is giving me so much shit; I did exactly this hybrid setup on both my Tarantula and my Tornado and never had any clogging problems. Anyways, tomorrow I go & pick up my order; they have the storefront closed but online sales and local pickup are still encouraged.
We'll see what comes of that. I'm right now seriously vacillating over whether to send this CNC extruder back and order the right one, Amazon Prime wait times be damned.
But the hotend kit will have decent couplers for the Cap XS tube, and I'm sure I can fab SOMETHING up to make a tension adjuster... maybe a printed cup to go inside the spring.
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Oh... and they have the MicroSwiss heat-block right there... for US$13... *wibble*