Flashforge Creator Pro Extruder Block Upgrade for Flexible Filament

[nguggisberg]

I've been having trouble trying to print with ninjaflex on my FF Creator Pro and I was wondering if there are any STL files for extruder blocks that support flexible filament through the whole extruder. Or if anyone has other suggestions on how they got it to work out they would be much apperciated. Thanks!

[jfkansas]

Perfect timing, I just put this out there on Thingiverse this morning. It works really great.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:857200

[nguggisberg]

Yo nice work jfkansas! What a coincidence. Also do you have any pictures of it installed without the heat sinks on yet?

[jfkansas]

Yo nice work jfkansas! What a coincidence. Also do you have any pictures of it installed without the heat sinks on yet?

Sorry for the blurry pics...But should give an idea on how they end up.

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[robosmith]

What are the mods on this?

Sorry for the blurry pics...But should give an idea on how they end up.

[jfkansas]

What are the mods on this?

What do you mean by mods? The black plastic is all different than the stock plastic.

[curious aardvark]

ALso have you wedged the tensioner lever open/down ?
That was all i had to do on my creator.

That said - green ninjaflex works great - red, not so much.
In fact our of a half dozen flexible filament samples - I've never got red filament to work properly. Green is the best, and white seems to work okay as well.

[jfkansas]

ALso have you wedged the tensioner lever open/down ?
That was all i had to do on my creator.

That said - green ninjaflex works great - red, not so much.
In fact our of a half dozen flexible filament samples - I've never got red filament to work properly. Green is the best, and white seems to work okay as well.

I ran the same file in Black and Red and got similar results. I think my settings are at 60mm/s also, however due to accceleration curves and the small part size I doubt it gets to that speed. Outlines are set to 50% speed also.

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[robosmith]

I was able to print black ninjaflex with no jamming on my Monoprice Creator X clone. Only prob was occasional lack of adhesion to blue tape.

I need to get a cooling fan.

[jfkansas]

I was able to print black ninjaflex with no jamming on my Monoprice Creator X clone. Only prob was occasional lack of adhesion to blue tape.

I need to get a cooling fan.

I'm surprised there is a difference in the colors, black ran perfect. Best ever. I will have to switch back to Red to see if I can match the black results. I previously had so so luck with red.