Extruder reviews from Reddit

"Bondtech is top notch imo. Their cust service is excellent too."

"Personally, I swapped to a direct drive Bondtech LGX and it's been great."

"I have a bondtech clone in my Ender 3 and it works without any problems."

"I'm using the Bondtech IFS on my Mini, so much better than stock."

"The Bondtech IFS is the only upgrade to the Mini I wholeheartedly recommend. I have never had to adjust the idler setting for any filament I've printed."

"Love the combo. It just prints excellent all the time!"

"Most of what I am reading online suggests that you get the BMG brand dual gear extruder."

"Bondtech BMG clones are a very solid bowden option for the price."

"Stock or one of the upgrade extruders like bondtech ddx or lgx."

"I'd recommend the bondtech, think it's worth the money."

"My favorite is the micro swiss revo ng. It's more than just an extruder, it's pretty much the whole hotend assembly."

"I installed the MicroSwiss hotend about a month ago and have been extremely happy with it."

"IMO it starts and ends with the one you show there. Micro Swiss direct drive and metal hotend"

"I really really like my Micro Swiss NG."

"I also use the micro swiss NG direct drive on a ender 5 plus and I never got any problems with those settings."

"I replaced mine with a MicroSwiss. Much better components than the stock version."

"Other option is the hotend from micro swiss. Don't know it it'll fix your issue, but it's a drop in replacement."

"I run microswiss direct drive on my Ender 5."

"I just installed a micro swiss DD with the all metal hot end on my ender 5."

"What about the micro swiss one?"

"Just buy creality's Sprite pro kit. It will came with the metallic plate to be able to mount it directly on the printer."

"Direct drive, the Creality Sprite SE extruder takes the bang for buck cake."

"I bought the sprite pro kit for $97."

"I ordered this all metal one, but it did not arrive yet."

"Honestly i just made an adapter and use the stock ender extruder (red metal) works perfectly fine, better than a cheap titan clone"

"Uses most of existing extruder hardware and is a drop in replacement."

"The Feral Engineer put the Creality E-Fit Direct Drive extruder on his Neptune 3."

"The Creality Sprite is a great drop-in replacement for most Enders."

"Getting the settings right was a hassle but it’s working pretty well now."

"It is a drop in replacement for the K1."

"I’ve been blown away by the Orbiter 2.5."

"I have an orbiter v2 (on my voron, not my old ender), but i absolutely love the thing. Similar to you, super consistent, lightweight. All around solid."

"I run an orbiter v2 on my ender3 and I get super consistent results with it."

"For extruder, orbiter v2. Single-handedly the best $60 I've ever spent on a printer."

"I have orbiter V2 with filament sensor and not disappointed at all."

"Orbiter v2.0 gets pretty phenomenal reviews all around."

"Orbiter v2.5 is a strong, lightweight extruder but there are stronger ones and lighter ones."

"Been very happy with my orbiter."

"It's not an awful hotend, but for similar complexity, you could do way better."

"I have given up on using this with TPU."

"Cost and overall (light) weight, you can't beat a Sherpa Mini."

"I use a Sherpa mini + dragon burner on my v0 and it has no issues with TPU."

"I’m using the Sherpa Mini with great results."

"I have a Sherpa mini with a V6 clone for a direct drive system."

"Direct drive with Sherpa micro extruder is a great upgrade."

"The sherpa mini i good."

"Pretty solid combination, but unless you want to print flexibles you don't really need it. Definitely change the hotend first, the Revo is such a big quality of life improvement."

"Sprite extruder has been awesome for me."

"I absolutely love it for the price/performance"

"I'd go sprite extruder"

"I am happy with the Creality Sprite extruder, but not sure if it is absolutely the best."

"The sprite is a good extruder, but taking it apart is one of the worst things to have to do."

"Bmg clone for the win."

"Works great with a lot of force to feed filament."

"G2 or any BMG style with RiDGA gears."

"BMG clone works well and saves on changing the extruder motor."

"Another vote for the Microswiss NG. I went with the regular one (not revo) due to the ease of getting replacement nozzles and being less expensive."

"Absolutely loved the NG back when I had the printer I installed it on."

"I just installed a Microswiss NG. It seems very well made and I've been quite happy with the performance so far"

"Microswiss NG"

"The E3D Unicorn nozzle performs excellently, even at high flow rates."

"The normal Revo system on MK3 with stock extruder is very nice and faster than the nozzle swap on MK4."

"E3D SuperVolcano maybe."

"My E3v2 is now very far from stock configuration and it's been a fair amount of effort."

"Galileo 2 is great. Can also use the standalone version if you aren’t going to use stealthburner."

"Gallileo2, better than 90% of other extruders"

"Gallileo2 love it"

"I use a modified stock extruder with the IFS, and it works great!"

"The best extruder upgrade is a lightweight direct drive one."

"Replacing the hotend PTFE tube and upgrading extruder parts can significantly improve print quality."

"It's a fantastic direct drive extruder and works great!"

"The microswiss extruder and hotends are good."

"I'm partial to Microswiss."

"The cyclops is great. I’ve been running mine for several months now."

"As of right now, the cyclops is still in beta but it out performs the stock by a really long shot"

"It just prints excellent all the time!"

"Love the combo. It just prints excellent all the time!"

"I am going to buy the Orbiter from Trianglelab and print the case with ABS-CF."

"Trianglelab DDB is best budget option."

"Hero Me Gen 7 - cost free, possibilities limitless"

"Its free, but would recommend paying the $5 for the guide on how to use it."

"I've been using this simpler top-mount bracket for several years and it works great."

"Thanks for posting the picture. I was looking at the same extruder."

"Revo system is great. Plus they got the high flow hardened revo coming soon."

"I was thinking the tool head with the shortest filament path is an Hemera XS. Is that a good choice or try the XOL?"

"I have had mine for about 2 years. Works great!"

"That extruder is extremely good with TPU when printing with a bowden tube."

"Any upgrade gets you closer to a new printer that actually works (mostly)."

"The filament path is quite long, causing issues with the extruder."

"Works fine. Make sure you get the Max and not another N4-type."

"It's a waste of money. It uses plastic gears just like the stock extruder."

"Pick one of Sherpa Mini, Orbiter, LGX, Hevort, several others. Depending on your need/want, perhaps even a MicroSwiss NG or a Sprite."

"I'll pile on the NG Revo train. My print quality went way up when I switched."

"I've got a HGX lite 2.0 (LGX clone), and I'm very happy with it."

"I’d give [this one](https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/960349450/dough-press-pasta-extruder-5-brass-dies?gpla=1&gao=1&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_ca_en_ca_-other-other&utm_custom1=_k_CjwKCAiApsm7BhBZEiwAvIu2X8thomrjphzVtHSNixMx0Fsz3IymfY_h_cM533ogTHEIC5DN_L1xbRoCza8QAvD_BwE_k_&utm_content=go_21629994457_170381789910_711062608473_aud-2079782229334:pla-360989572517_m__960349"

"I love Bondtech LGX and can recommend LGX Pro (Because of metal gears)."

"I use a Galileo 2. You can use the parts for both Clockwork 2 and also Stand alone."

"One of the best is probably extrudort for the vz bot."

"I just use SB with CW2 and overture tpu. Never had a problem."

"I've had the ceramic hotend on mine since it came out and its legit, but would be cool to have a hardened steel nozzle for CF Nylon."

"I have an ezr on a Malyan, given to me by a guy who worked at seemecnc. It's been exceptional."

"It prints perfectly, and does not bind inside the toolhead."

"Slice and bondtech are good"

"Panda extruder helps too"

"FZ extruder: it has a latching system, and just looks cool"

"I got the standard Shimpo one. you wont get new under $100 cause the hollow die set alone is $60."

"I have a clay extruder from ceramicshop.com and it works well."

"A cement pointing gun is exactly the same and significantly cheaper."

"I got a Philips Pasta Maker 7000 and it works very well both for short and long formats, including rigatoni."

"Plan was to replace stock gears in my stealthburner for fysetc IDGA gear set."

"I believe there are 3rd party replacement ones that are hardened on Ali."

"Apparently it comes with a genuine (or a really good fake) Phaeton Dragon HF when you order that version."

"I like the HGX mod that comes in metal"

"The cheapest extruder is Sharpa mini because you can make it out of cw2 parts that you get with the kit and it's pretty good"

"I love the titan extruder, never had a problem exept you have to know its limits and be cautious with the pre tension."

"There is a lgx lite mod for the k1. That looks very nice."

"Check out the mercury one / Eva carriage."

"Sprite pro is dirt fucking cheap on temu"

"The official CHT nozzles are high quality but you can get knock offs for a tenth of the price."

"I did an extruder upgrade to my I3 Mega (s) last weekend. I went for an OMG V2s extruder. Easy install."

"Smart Orbiter v3: $100 is a lot of money but in my opinion, the price is right."

"Biqu h2 series extruder."

"Imo a simpler update would be the voron extruder setup.. but the performance would be similar to the stock."

"These extruders are literally just caulk guns designed to take 'sausage' tubes of caulk."

"I think if you get one of those very cheap bowden style extruders and replace the bevelled idler bearing with a flat one it should work."

"I’ve heard the kitchen aid extruder attachments work okay, but I haven’t actually ever seen one in action."

"You can just buy a new one on Amazon, they’re like 20 bucks and very similar to the stock one, hopefully they’ll last longer."

"I just built and tried a papillo lite, wall quality wasn't great with it and it struggled for volumetric flow."