frederiekpascal

I can confirm that, after +750 hours of printing with my UM2+ ext, I've never seen any grinded filament or a dirty feeder. Such a big difference compared to my UM2....

same here I use the big spools of 2.2kg for the common colours, which gives me less leftovers on the spools

I'm sure you'll be very happy with the upgrade kit. Keep us posted though.

Lol indeed, I was thinking the same thing.

stickers even!

correct! The biggest difference for me is the reliability of the UM2 plus ext compared to my "old" UM2. So that means, no more grinded filament, less clogged nozzles (doesn't matter that much because you can switch nozzles in 3 seconds) and much higher quality prints. After +500 hours of printing with my UM2+, I still got a success rate of +95% It's an expensive kit but it's a must-have for current UM2 users imo...

Today I noticed the official webshop of Apple.com is selling Ultimakers. http://www.apple.com/be-nl/shop/product/HJQG2ZM/A/ultimaker-2-3d-printer Great move UM.

Great news for the current UM2 users! Not cheap though.... So it's 395 euros ex VAT? Because Trideus is selling the kit for almost 500 euros.... http://www.trideus.be/nl/ultimaker-extrusion-upgrade-kit-9510.html

Depends on your print hours too. I sold mine, with +1000 print hours and 4 months old, for 1500 euros. My UM2 had some upgraded parts like Olsson block, 35W heater and the other 3Dsolex products.

I have the new feeder and I can only recommend it. My UM2+ ext can print easily at 80 mm/s with 0.3 layer height and a 0.4 mm nozzle. I printed that fast because my friend was waiting for the object before leaving for a vacation. (it's a gopro mount for skiing, check out the video below) The result came out quite nicely for a fast 0.3mm print imo. Here's the result. I cannot compare with Bondtech but I can compare with the old UM2 feeder and Robert's feeder.

I never use blue tape for woodfill... What are your print settings?

We recently bought an iSense : http://www.3dsystems.com/shop/isense Quite happy with the results tbh. We have it connected to an ipad pro. This might be an advantage because the cpu of the ipad pro is faster than all other ipads.

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You can install the default Ultimaker firmware with Cura. Connect your Ultimaker with an USB cable to your computer and choose "Machine" --> "install default firmware". good luck

The holes in the wooden backplate from the UM2+ frame are drilled different than the original UM2 to fit the new feeder. So you'll get a wooden plank too for your 393 USD probably.

No, there is a different firmware for the plus models : https://github.com/TinkerGnome/Marlin_UM2plus/releases

Indeed... seems in the same league as trying to design a stepper motor, SD card or LCD display... others will always be better at it... Is it just to costly to implement Google? royalties? how does it work? or you'r just control freaks? The implementation of Google search on a website like Ultimaker.com costs money. You pay for each search query submitted from your site. https://www.google.com/work/search/products/gss.html#pricing_content Finetuning the current search engine of this site and adding useful filters should be enough imo...

exactly! great suggestions imo!

Thank god you "feel free" now. Good luck!

Vbulletin has some nifty search functionalities. Not easy to clone them all in this forum but at least a few filters to sort the results are more than welcome.

I still receive ghost notifications every day. An example of today : When you go to that thread, you'll see that the last post was "Posted Feb 13, 2016 - 3:18 PM" Last reply was from me so I don't know if this has something to do with the ghost notifications?

How is this search functionality configured? Do you search in the body of a thread or only in the subject? I search for "Frederiek" as an example and the first few results are correct. But, as you can see, I still see a lot of irrelevant results... Also, please a tool for filtering the search results. Now I have no clue how the results are sorted. And I got 255 results in the support section for "Frederiek". It's improved a bit yes, but I'll stick to Google for now. Keep us posted!

I have different S3D profiles I'm actively using. The one I shared used 35mm/s retraction, normally I use 25mm/s. It all depends on the model I'm printing though...

like @Neotko says, it depends on the model a lot. When I need very tall and strong support structures I use 50% support infill percentage for the support, otherwise I don't go lower than 30%.

vBulletin is a true hardcore-community forum software. That's correct imo. I used to be community manager games of 9lives.be and I noticed they still use vbulletin as their forum software. (to manage their 110K users and 14 million posts, I got user 4 btw, 3 sys admins beat me that day ) But still, I like the fresh looks of this forum, the typography, the white space and the fresher look. Much better than most old-skool vBulletin boards. True, vBulletin offers a lot more features functions out-of-the-box but how many people would actually use those geek functions anyway? And the speed of the forum, it was very slow but it's ok now. At least in Belgium it is. Not that important for the forum users, but so important for the sys admins of UM is that vBulletin requires a high frequency of updates otherwise you'll be hacked within days.