Gav's World : 3D Printing : Creality K1

Creality K1

After a few years with my Vertex Delta 3D Printer, and one too many failed print attempts, I splashed out on a new printer: a Creality K1.

This is a massive step up in performance over the Vertex Delta - it's a CoreXY printer that is incredibly fast and accurate... and more importantly, isn't connected with magnets which can cause the head to crash (and fall off the magnets) if there is a shock during printing. As cool as the Vertex Delta was to watch printing, this was it's biggest problem.

As usual, there is a plethora of printable upgrades that people have already designed for this - so time to start printing! Some of the first that I did were:

Useful Modifications

Accessories

Whilst trying to print a shower draing cover, I was running into filament stringing issues - basically, the PLA was too moist! So, I invested in a Space Pi Filament Dryer which did the trick nicely!

First Print

My first print was a compelte re-print of sometheing that I had lots of trouble printing with my Vertex Delta: 3 Jaw Lathe Chuck which printed first time and went together with minimal work.