Flashforge Creator Pro Extruder Block Upgrade for Flexible Filament

[jfkansas]

It really isn't needed, I don't clean my drive gear but about a couple times a month at most. I usually run a #11 xacto knife down the grooves, not a brush. Sometimes a quick blast of canned air is all that is needed. It would also take another perpendicular drive system since you would want to brush along the grooves and not across.

[robosmith]

It really isn't needed, I don't clean my drive gear but about a couple times a month at most. I usually run a #11 xacto knife down the grooves, not a brush. Sometimes a quick blast of canned air is all that is needed. It would also take another perpendicular drive system since you would want to brush along the grooves and not across.

Yeah, ideally it would be along the grooves, but with a continuous action, across could be effective enough.

Might be better than taking it apart a couple of times a month.


Then again, if the brush were round and mounted at an angle and allowed to rotate, it could have significant across the grooves motion propelled by the gear motion.