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... ![Roll Eyes ::)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif.pagespeed.ce.XcUK202Yqt.gif)
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.
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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. ![WTF? :wtf:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wtf2.gif.pagespeed.ce.pxLiY5pjs4.gif)
Anyways, tomorrow I go & pick up my order; they have the storefront closed but online sales and local pickup are still encouraged.
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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.
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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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mnem
Oh... and they have the MicroSwiss heat-block right there... for US$13... *wibble*