Comment on SV08 upgrades/mods
Wfh@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
- Microswiss Flowtech hotend because the original died in a PETG-related incident
- Golden PEI build plate, much better adhesion compared to stock
- a few software tweaks and manual z-offset calibration
- next step will probably be a graphite bed to fix extended heat times and taco bed.
emrsmsrli@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cool! Can you tell me whether you saw any quality improvements because of the hotend change?
My SV08 has a spring mechanism under the bed so it doesn’t produce the taco issue, but I will still look into the graphite option, thanks!
Wfh@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The prints are shinier so I guess there’s a better heat flow in the hot end, especially at higher speeds.
But my goal was mostly to replace the hotend with a well known and well regarded design.
The stock one has a flaw with PETG, I’m not sure if it’s the material or the temperatures but it makes the nozzle creep down. Very slowly at first, leading to bad looking or failed prints and horrible first layers and constant z-offset fiddling, until it suddenly and very forcefully drives itself through the build plate or the print.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was under the impression that the PETG flaw with the stock hotend was resolved a couple of months after the printer was released, and anyone with an affected nozzle was eligible for a free replacement (which basically includes an extra grubscrew to hold everything in place). My nozzle was definitely different to the ones I saw photos of after they’d popped apart.