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I have a 2 Go and at the time went with a Titan extruder, Olsson Block, and a Print in Z build plate.
I strongly recommend going with SOME kind of upgraded extruder. The stock one is just not reliable in my experience, the Medusa one on the GR5 store looks great and is nice and low cost. 2 to 1 ratio is nice. The Titan gives you 3 to 1, but its not like you would REALLY need that. I have no Bondtech experience to speak of but I do know they offer lots of filament control and as someone earlier mentioned zero issues with their prints.
I will say that the Titan has had no problems once I got it set up properly for the filament. I assume the same of the Medusa since it's essentially a + Extruder clone.
Whatever extruder you do end up with you will need to go to the Tinkergnome firmware which is really easy to work with. You need to change the steps on the extruder so it will work properly.
As for Olsson block and V3 blocks. I run the Olsson and really like it. The V3 has multiple improvements to it, but I personally can't see them being a great bang for your buck.
Someone mentioned a 35W heater. I know that GR5 sells them and I really like heated beds on printers, but I will say from my experiences for the last two years printing on a Print in Z build plate almost daily it's been super reliable, parts stick very well (PLA) but I have never run anything but PLA on that machine. If with these upgrades you want to run other materials, you may consider a heated bed.
For what it's worth, I plan on picking up another 2 Go and doing the same modifications to it. Not only because then I have the same things to upkeep, but I know they work well. Also I have not yet done the TFM upgrade but that is next on my list of things to do.
Links to the other mentioned things were provided but here is the Print in Z plate if you are interested in taking a look at that too.
Cura 5.7 is here and it brings a handy new workflow improvement when using Thingiverse and Cura together, as well as additional capabilities for Method series printers, and a powerful way of sharing print settings using new printer-agnostic project files! Read on to find out about all of these improvements and more.
S-Line Firmware 8.3.0 was released Nov. 20th on the "Latest" firmware branch.
(Sorry, was out of office when this released)
This update is for...
All UltiMaker S series
New features
Temperature status. During print preparation, the temperatures of the print cores and build plate will be shown on the display. This gives a better indication of the progress and remaining wait time. Save log files in paused state. It is now possible to save the printer's log files to USB if the currently active print job is paused. Previously, the Dump logs to USB option was only enabled if the printer was in idle state. Confirm print removal via Digital Factory. If the printer is connected to the Digital Factory, it is now possible to confirm the removal of a previous print job via the Digital Factory interface. This is useful in situations where the build plate is clear, but the operator forgot to select Confirm removal on the printer’s display. Visit this page for more information about this feature.
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I have a 2 Go and at the time went with a Titan extruder, Olsson Block, and a Print in Z build plate.
I strongly recommend going with SOME kind of upgraded extruder. The stock one is just not reliable in my experience, the Medusa one on the GR5 store looks great and is nice and low cost. 2 to 1 ratio is nice. The Titan gives you 3 to 1, but its not like you would REALLY need that. I have no Bondtech experience to speak of but I do know they offer lots of filament control and as someone earlier mentioned zero issues with their prints.
I will say that the Titan has had no problems once I got it set up properly for the filament. I assume the same of the Medusa since it's essentially a + Extruder clone.
Whatever extruder you do end up with you will need to go to the Tinkergnome firmware which is really easy to work with. You need to change the steps on the extruder so it will work properly.
As for Olsson block and V3 blocks. I run the Olsson and really like it. The V3 has multiple improvements to it, but I personally can't see them being a great bang for your buck.
Someone mentioned a 35W heater. I know that GR5 sells them and I really like heated beds on printers, but I will say from my experiences for the last two years printing on a Print in Z build plate almost daily it's been super reliable, parts stick very well (PLA) but I have never run anything but PLA on that machine. If with these upgrades you want to run other materials, you may consider a heated bed.
For what it's worth, I plan on picking up another 2 Go and doing the same modifications to it. Not only because then I have the same things to upkeep, but I know they work well. Also I have not yet done the TFM upgrade but that is next on my list of things to do.
Links to the other mentioned things were provided but here is the Print in Z plate if you are interested in taking a look at that too.
http://www.printinz.com/printinz-3d-printer-plates/
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