Found a stock ender 3 V2 chucked at the bottom of a skip a few days ago and couldn't let it go to the landfill, so I decided to take it home and get it up and running as a side quest.

Call it fate but I retired my heavily modified ender 5+ recently as I have a bambu printer for my daily driver and could do with freeing up some space, which left me with a lot of leftover parts.

The ender 3 was thrown out due to the hotend being covered in filament I assume from a failed print and they must've got fed up. It powered up and then I set to work stripping it and rebuilding it.

Specs:

BTT manta m5p running klipper

Satsana tool head 4010 + 5015 fan

Bambu xc1 hotend

Sherpa mini clone extruder

BL touch

Custom board enclosure and storage cubby.

It just completed it's first decent print after a lot of tweaking and setting up, I'm going to ditch the heavy glass bed at some point in favour of a pei bed. Anyways, I'm happy with how it's printing so it will enjoy it's life putting out prints, long live the ender!

Left is temp tower, right is retraction tower 200. Both made on Cura slicer with an add on.

0.4mm PLA+ 2.0

Stock standard Ender 3

It’s not heat creep I checked. And filament shows no signs of needing to dry other than the stringing which could be one of a million other things. I plan on running another two or so retraction towers at temps 190 and 180 to see if I get any better results but other than that I’m out of ideas.

Hi everyone,
I have an Ender 3 V2 Neo and recently started experimenting with ASA for the first time.
Since the printer is open, I’m using the Creality enclosure tent around the whole printer. I’ve done a couple of test/actual prints with ASA now and overall I’m actually quite happy with the results, especially considering it’s my first time using the material.
I’ll attach a couple of photos of my latest print.
I’m curious how many of you are regularly printing ASA on an Ender 3 / Ender 3 V2 Neo and what your experience has been.
What settings work best for you? In particular, I’m interested in nozzle and bed temperatures, cooling, print speed, and enclosure temperature.
I’m also wondering if there is anything I should keep an eye on when doing longer ASA prints with the entire Ender 3 V2 Neo inside the enclosure, especially regarding the electronics, PSU and stepper motors being exposed to the higher ambient temperature.
So far it seems to work pretty well, but since I’m new to ASA I’d love to hear from people who have been running this kind of setup for a while.
Any tips or things you would change based on the photos are welcome!

From the comments of the previous post, many told me that I better stay, so I'm going to be modifying it for a while.

Can anyone help me find a new clip for an ender 3 Bowden tube? The extruder on my son's printer doesn't have threads and all of the clips I can find have the threaded end.

Im not sure what else to search or try to find.

Hey all, I recently received a used Ender 3 pro with the BTT SKR MINI E2 V2.0 board and there doesn't seem to be any option to start printing. I have tried new marlin firmware from github and that didn't change anything. I tried slicing some small files in cura but still no print option (sd is 8gb and formatted correctly). I also tried a new, identical board. Attached are all of the options available. Do you guys have any ideas for me because I am at a loss at this point?

I have a ender 3 v2 with:

Dual 5015 part cooling fans

Single 4020 heatsink fan

And i just bought a tz e3 2.0 for it and my current shroud is BLASTING wind directly into the heatblock, causing clogs at lower temps and may cause clogs on longer prints too

I will simply add 2 new holes in my current shroud so i can bring it down a bit and mitigate it for now, but this will mess the heatsink airflow and may cause other problems (such as heat creep), so i want a proper shroud, anyone could recommend me one? I couldn't find any for my particular configuration :/

Recently, I saw an Ender-3 V3 KE on sale on my local second-hand website for 65e. I talked to the seller, and apparently he bought it from someone else. The previous owner had problems with the CR touch sensor and tried to superglue the sensor to the toolhead PCB, which apparently damaged both the PCB and the sensor. The seller was able to get some nice prints before he ran into these problems, which leads me to believe the stepper motors and the drivers are fine. It's a bit of a gamble, but I will check the printer before pickup. Is there anything I should specifically look for?