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

[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.

[nguggisberg]

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

[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.

[curious aardvark]

Haven't tried black. And yeah cooling fan is a good idea.
Never had any adhesion issues with flexible anything. Print it slow and it doesn't really need to stick as it doesn't warp.

[robosmith]

Haven't tried black. And yeah cooling fan is a good idea.
Never had any adhesion issues with flexible anything. Print it slow and it doesn't really need to stick as it doesn't warp.

The problem was with the first layer lifting off completely and being dragged around by the extruder. Only happened ~1/2 the time.

[jfkansas]

ninja on glass is best, use heated bed to 50c and glue stick.

[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.

[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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