Micro Swiss NG Direct Drive Upgrade (Creality Ender 5)

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Huge thank you to Micro Swiss for sponsoring this video. In today's video, we go step by step through the process of converting the Ender 5 Pro from its stock extruder\hotend to the NG Direct Drive Extruder. This will allow you to print with a much wider range of materials, including higher temp and flexible. This specific kit will work with the Ender 5, 5 Pro, 5 Plus, and very likely Ender 5-style clones.

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[EricSchreiber]

I'm another satisfied customer. This walk-thru made the process dead simple. The only issue I had was removing the heater element and thermocouple from the old hot end. They didn't want to come out until it occurred to me to turn it on for a few seconds to heat up the block. They they both basically fell right out.

[joshjimenez]

Bought one of these when they first came out to make my ender 3 able to print ABS reliably and so far it's been extremely easy to use and reliable.

[EsotericArctos]

As a note, the original wiring is covered by that mesh. The mesh can the bunched up, giving a much larger area and the Extruder extension cable can run inside that mesh, the just manipulate the mesh slightly to get a gap (not breaking any threads of the mesh) to bring the cable connector out near the old extruder position. This makes the cabling look a lot neater than just zip tied to the outside of the original wiring mesh.
Creality now do have firmware for their "spider" hot ends that allows higher print temps, but you are better off rolling your own firmware using either Kilipper or Marlin to get a lot of extra features Creality do not enable by default. Plenty of videos on how to do this on YouTube.

Edit: The stock thermistor that comes with Creality Ender 5, the glass ball type one, is not rated above 290 degrees and the newest versions of Marlin will not compile if you try to set the max temperature to 300 with this thermistor.

[TheJadedCoder]

Thanks for this! Used this to upgrade my Ender 5 pro today and your instructions were perfect!

[calebnelson]

Advice if you get a clog in your heater block.... Use Q-TIPS to clean the silver piece. Helped out a ton when I accidentally got melted filament all over.

[Mattittas]

I installed the NG on my Ender-3 V2 four days ago, and on my first TPU-print I didn't tighten the extruder lever enough (I think...) and had a massive clog which I just couldn't figure out for an entire day. After realizing that all I needed was to release the lever arm with one screw, everything cleaned up nicely and has been working perfectly for the last days, printing constantly.
It's such a nice upgrade, except from having to print the CR-touch bracket yourself, which I of course managed to snap during installation, and my old Z-limit switch is in the garbage somewhere. Lucily I've got a resin printer too, so I could print a spare, but it would be nice if it could be included in some way.

[klave]

Great explanations, very clear and helpful, thanks. I was going to ask about the bed level sensor then saw you even mentioned that. A little more on getting it running or a new video on that please.

[justaddjeff]

1. Don't forget to print your BLTouch bracket before starting.
2. Replace the stock cable wrap with some 1/4" split like ZGNO.25BK.

[FlydreamMedia]

Thank you for this. Installed this on my Ender 5 pro and out the box printed better than the stock parks. Got sick of TPU not feeding properly. Easy swap with your video

[JosephStory]

I bought mine during the Cyber Monday sale and I'm loving it. Pretty much direct drop-in on my longer LK5. Just needed to print a fan adapter for the 5015 radial type, since I didn't have a 4010(?) part cooling fan laying around.

[ReinkeDK]

Thanks for an excellent video.

I followed it today, and it was always clear what to do.

Currently my printer is printing the benchy :)

[calebnelson]

Your tutorials are amazing thank you :) Used your tutorial for my ender 5 using your ender 3 tutorial.

[hamthomas]

Great vid as always! I just installed my Ender 6 version last night and good LAWD is it nice. I wish I had YouTube skills to put together something like you've made here, but I'm going to document the process loosely with pics & text.

I'm printing the CR Touch bracket I designed now, then I've got a 5015 adapter up next, and my NG is going to be purring!

Thanks again for the discount code you had on your 100k stream! 🧑‍🔧

[literallykey]

I have actually been considering getting an NG extruder, so very topical

[slicedpage]

I bought my NG six months ago and it was a fantastic upgrade however, last week the heater block dropped during a print. I put it down to not tightening the grub screw enough and cleaned everything up. When it came to re-inserting the heartbreak it was too wide! The only way to get it back in was to file it down, which seemed silly so I bought a replacement. It dropped too. Has anyone experienced this before? I followed the fitting instructions to the letter.
April 23 Update. When the heater block dropped it was because I used the wrong set/grub screw to hold the heatsync in place. It needed to be a conical screw. My NG is back to normal with the help of micro swiss support who have the patience of Saints.

[Ripcord]

There is no link in the description for a PID tune..

[bfavre]

Just subscribed! You have great knowledge on these things! Can’t wait to learn more from you

[mr.tsdroidfactory]

Great video but could not find any info on reinstalling the BL Touch. My NG did include the bracket but additional info would have been nice.

[killermiller]

For real, got one of these from christmas and went from printing 30mm/s on my ender 3 to 162.5mm/s

[kihgu]

allready 103k subs. feels like u got 100k yesterday