Creality CFS
My CFS filament feeder has been a love/hate relationship. When it works, it works good. When it is bad, it is very bad. The complexity and difficulty to disassemble and repair is what makes it very bad.
I have totally disassembled, replaced all internal tubing and re-assembled once. That is really once too many times. It is very difficult.
With high use the filament cuts the inside tubing to shreds.
I have resigned myself to doing no muli-multi color changes with the CFS. A few times per print OK…
What I didn’t understand was there (at least now) is a total ban for the use of cardboard (paper) spools within the CFS. Creality (hidden deeply on their website) goes on to state, “for any CFS (type) multi-filament feeder.”
Must be an industry problem. Not just the Creality Filament System (CFS).
That is exactly the issue I suffered. Spool reverse rewinds would often quit working properly due to spool slippage. There is no detector for slippage so there ends up being a tangled jumble of filament inside the CFS case.
No good for unattended printing.
I pulled my CFS off my K2plus for 6 months. It’s a real PITA to run the K2plus with only one side spool.
After reading the now adamant statement “ No Plastic Spools”, I am giving my CFS another try. I actually labeled my CFS cover with the warning. See picture.
First test is printing and all seems well. No retracts yet. One spool only. The feed printing is excellent.
I’ll let you know if the hand basket to hades returns…
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