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Opps - Added to the system and then there were three

I'm convinced that there are "Times" when Amazon energizes magnetic fields around buttons to draw fingers to hit them. I've had a few expensive "accidental" purchases too. I tend to spend a lot more when shopping on Amazon than I would if I was taking the money out of my pocket to pay for a purchase. It may be the reason why they have become so successful. The credit card companies love it too.

Charley
 
They delivered it and I enlisted my neighbor to help me get it up on the bench. The thing with all the packing weighs a ton. The printer itself weighs in at 55 pounds. It took about 20 minutes to unpack the biggest parts and get them in place. The first thing I noticed was that I needed to move my filament storage racks. So it's going on 6PM so I'll tackle the rest of unpacking and setup tomorrow morning.


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I spent about 15 min watching a You Tube on unpacking and initial set up while I had my coffee. Everything works better when you lubricate it with some coffee.
I went out to the shop unpacking and laid out the pieces and parts. It came with 4- 500 gm spools of PLA (Red, White, Blue and black) lots of spare part and a cute little tool box with all the tools necessary tools to service the machine. It also came with a handy dandy bunch of preprinted color chips so it make it easy to select the proper shades of each color.
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Once I got it final assembly and loaded with 4 spools of PLA. I used some spools I had on the shelf rather than open the ones they sent and breaking the seal on them. Besides the CFsSbT (Creality Filament storage System box Thingy) it came with s bracket to use if you just want to print a single color and it is not in the system.

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After calibration and updating the software I printed out the obligatory "Benchy" in 4 colors. Normal speed for this part in mono chrome would be 21 minute. With color changes the job took 34 minute with the factory setting. as it printed I noticed that I can lower the time by a bit by tweaking settings. The quality of the part was amazing.
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So now I have the 3 D print station back organized I can start learning new software and playing with designs. The Creality Slicer looks similar to Cura so it shouldn't be too difficult to learn
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I added a second CFS to the K2 printer so now I am set up for n8 color.. I think I'll build a special rack for this one and the other 2 I am getting to sit on to stack them up to save room. I have some ideas to minimize space by stacking them and putting them on drawer slides so ZI can pull them out of the stack for color changes. I need to noddle that out for a bit.
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As someone who was messing with printers when the understanding of terms like dot matrix and dip switches were essential I look at these 3D printers as technological marvels. They are like the equivalent of someone going from a horse and buggy to a modern Ferrari.

I remember convincing my boss to let me buy a four color plotter so I could print bar graphs and pie charts in color. We had word processors in those days and specialized secretaries who knew how to use them. I had an Apple IIe in the early 80's which I used to crunch data from the lab. It was a marvel also as it had built-in upper and lower case alphabet technology (I think I am right about that). Today you can buy a computer that costs half as much as those old machines and do just about anything. Shoot, my video card has 100 times as much memory as those old computers.

Can you just imagine what they are going to come up with next. Every time I need to buy a new computer I feel more and more like a dinosaur. I think I am a living fossil when I listen to other people talk about this technology.
 
That really is one great benefit of using the AMS systems. I've got PLA, ASA, and PETG loaded in mine, as well as different colors of PLA and can just switch at will.

Wish I could use TPU with the AMS, but its' not that hard to load and swap out.
 
Brent Dowell said:
Wish I could use TPU with the AMS
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3D Printer Files | 3MF File | CFS Bypass Buddy (for TPU & CF Filaments) | Creality Cloud

his TPU-printed adapter lets you mount a filament spool in the Creality CFS while bypassing the CFS feed system — perfect for printing TPU or abrasive filaments that don’t feed well through the CFS path. This helped me a lot with my difficultiesprinting TPU on my Creality HI.The design props the...
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I've got this on the side of my printer. All I really have to do is to press 'load' on the printers filament screen, then feed the tpu manually in through the tube held up by the green thing.

Still, I'm lazy, lol. Would like to be able to load the tpu in the ams and have it auto feed. Supposedly there is some form of fairly hard tpu that you can do that with, I just haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

I do like printing with tpu though, for certain things. I've made a lot of beer can koozies with it in the past.
 
getting ready for 16 color. The bottom and middle CFS are on drawer slides so I can pull the out to change spools. I ordered some longer cables and tubing to accommodate the new setup as soon as it is here I can go ahead and order the other two CFS units. I'll put some edge banding on the MDF to make it look pretty.
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Oh the printer is on a turn table.... thanks Brent for the idea.
 
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