Artillery Sidewinder X2 Extruder Kit Replacement Artillery Genius Pro Extrusion Kit for Sidewinder X2 and Genius Pro 3D Printer

Every 3-D printer owner dreads the day where they need to replace parts, though the ease of this order made my struggles a bit easier! The extruder came in great condition and with the help of some YouTube videos, I easily put it on my machine and it was up and running in no time!

If you have an aging SWX1 12 inch printer..... this is probably a wise purchase. As others have said. Out of the box these are not great – – they still need to be gone through converted to all metal hot ends and several other upgrades (better e3D pressure lever and drive gear recommended). Nonetheless, because of the rather proprietary design that these artillery units have it really is very handy to have a spare extruder unit to go on while another is down. Even if you threw one of these on stock – – you'll probably get more than a year of good service (before rebuild) out of it if you take care of it – – (and if you don't put a lot of hours on it and you also don't print high heat or high speed.) The SWX1 -- circa 2019 – – is looking like it might be one of the last easy to work on roller-based printers. Things are getting complicated with all of the super machines coming out. I appreciate an old-school machine that is easy to level by hand. It's really great that this is available -- to keep these going a few more years!

Worked as it should, I believe it solved some of my issues I was having. Fast delivery.

I read that the version 1 machine had a clear glass bed, so I thought I had a version 2 or later. I ordered this and had to made it work, so I guess I had a version 1 machine. In the first picture you see 4 mounting holes in the original extruder. In the next picture you see the new extruder with only 1 lower mounting hole. I removed the carriage and drilled and tapped a 3mm to accept the new extruder - the 2 upper holes were the same for both extruders. The next issue was the fan interfering not allowing the carriage to travel to the stop sensor. I used a vibrating saw tool to cut the corner away as you see in the next picture. It is my opinion that the new extruder was modified to make it cheaper and better. The heatsink under the cooling fan is cast as part of the plate it originally was screwed against. The mounting screws are much easier to access with a long TEE handle allen hex wrench. To remove the old extruder I ground away about half of the short arm of an allen hex key, so I could get to the mounting screws. I'm 3D printing right now and it's working just like it is supposed to.

I fought with my extruder for hours with no satisfaction. I give up, ordered this and the printer performs like new again. This is OEM equipment in an Artillery box, packed very well. Of course I had to reset Z0 and set the nip tension but that's a given.

Broke after 2 uses. The heat wires melted to the plastic frame.

It also gets rid of the annoying plastic feed tube that was used on the original design.

A friend gave me his old Artillery X1 but advised it needed a new extruder. I found this and was excited to get the printer up and running, but was quickly disappointed when I learned I had to figure out the mounting screw size as this does not come with any hardware. Now I'm stuck waiting for ANOTHER shipment before I can begin working on fixing this printer.