{"id":5275,"date":"2020-06-11T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T05:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2020-06-12T13:09:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T19:09:53","slug":"a20m-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=5275","title":{"rendered":"A20M Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The A20M is my Geeetech (brand) dual color 3D printer. I also own and operate a Geeetech A20T which is a triple color 3D printer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5277\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5277\" class=\"wp-image-5277 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3171-400x400.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5277\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new dual extruder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The A20M has been an excellent quality printing output. However the dual print head as been a fairly serious issue. I just installed the second replacement printhead so it is now running on its third.<\/p>\n<p>The second head is identical to the first but the third is anodized black (see pictures). Geeetech has not said what is different on the new black extruder. (print head). &nbsp;They do claim it has been improved and I suspect a few internal parts were removed as being unnecessary<\/p>\n<p>There are very tiny multi orifice plates in each color feed port on the original. I believe these plug up very easily and are really non serviceable parts. They were intended to reduce dribble when switching colors. But I have plug up problems with the two original versions containing the orifice plates.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t tear apart this new extruder as it is far more work than I need to do. The extruder change-out is very tedious and a long process. I don&#8217;t want additional work. I&#8217;ll let performance speak for itself as I use this new component.<\/p>\n<p>As I said the change-out is not easy. If this dual fead plugs up again, I will seriously start looking for a different machine rather than repair it again. But that will be dependent on how much future multicolor printing I can find reason for doing. My three color printer has been doing fine. The major difference is only the extruder print head. One more color.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5278\" class=\"wp-image-5278 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3172-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New extruder (left) with first extruder (right)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5279\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5279\" class=\"wp-image-5279 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_3173-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Second extruder with red leads next to original.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A20M is my Geeetech (brand) dual color 3D printer. I also own and operate a Geeetech A20T which is a triple color 3D printer. The A20M has been an excellent quality printing output. However the dual print head as been a fairly serious issue. I just installed the second replacement printhead so it is now running on its third. The second head is identical to the first but the third is anodized black (see&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,4],"tags":[176,171],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-musing","tag-3d","tag-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}