Tenlog Hands 2 Replacement Extruder Lever to fix feed alignment

[AvCDVz75LRFwd]

So my stock extruder lever hole for my Tenlog Hands 2 got unaligned with the hole that leads to the hotend, this made loading filament a pain because I could no longer just gently feed in the filament using the UI. Found this replacement extruder lever on thingiverse and printed it out.
Might have been able to realign my extruder lever with the hole, but apparently it's not uncommon for the stock lever to just break, so figured I might aswell print up a replacement.

Print seems pretty sturdy but if anything goes wrong I can always print a replacement with some sturdier values.

I also added it to my second extruder as well, since that came unaligned from the factory. I've yet to test if this print has fixed that yet.

I also posted a Make for the object on thingiverse if you want to see some more details on the settings I used to print it.

[daveefordays]

So my stock extruder lever hole for my Tenlog Hands 2 got unaligned with the hole that leads to the hotend, this made loading filament a pain because I could no longer just gently feed in the filament using the UI. Found this replacement extruder lever on thingiverse and printed it out.
Might have been able to realign my extruder lever with the hole, but apparently it's not uncommon for the stock lever to just break, so figured I might aswell print up a replacement.

Print seems pretty sturdy but if anything goes wrong I can always print a replacement with some sturdier values.

I also added it to my second extruder as well, since that came unaligned from the factory. I've yet to test if this print has fixed that yet.

I also posted a Make for the object on thingiverse if you want to see some more details on the settings I used to print it.

Nice work, this looks really great!!

I wonder if you can get aluminium replacements for the hands 2 or retrofit another extruder type? These tend to break or twist on pretty much every printer i've seen...

[AvCDVz75LRFwd]

Nice work, this looks really great!!

I wonder if you can get aluminium replacements for the hands 2 or retrofit another extruder type? These tend to break or twist on pretty much every printer i've seen...

I'm sure you could, there's just 1 screw you screw in. You'd just need it to be the right size, since the hotend has such a restricted space to work in.
I'm not too worried about it, if it breaks or snaps or something I can easily just unscrew it and print another out of PLA+, PETG or some other stronger material with a higher infill.

The Tenlog printers are different also since loading filament doesn't actually require you press down on the lever at all, just gotta click the "feed in" button and gently put the filament through. So the stress on this lever will be far lower than other printers which you have to pull on the lever on each filament load.

This also fixed my second extruder issue, might fix your TPU problem with the second extruder, might be worth a shot.

[daveefordays]

I'm sure you could, there's just 1 screw you screw in. You'd just need it to be the right size, since the hotend has such a restricted space to work in.
I'm not too worried about it, if it breaks or snaps or something I can easily just unscrew it and print another out of PLA+, PETG or some other stronger material with a higher infill.

The Tenlog printers are different also since loading filament doesn't actually require you press down on the lever at all, just gotta click the "feed in" button and gently put the filament through. So the stress on this lever will be far lower than other printers which you have to pull on the lever on each filament load.

This also fixed my second extruder issue, might fix your TPU problem with the second extruder, might be worth a shot.

Hmmmm ok good idea, thanks.

I think my issue is mostly after the drive gears and not before though, it seems I have a slight gap between the extruder drive gears and the top of the hotend. I really need to pull it apart and have a proper look.

[AvCDVz75LRFwd]

Hmmmm ok good idea, thanks.

I think my issue is mostly after the drive gears and not before though, it seems I have a slight gap between the extruder drive gears and the top of the hotend. I really need to pull it apart and have a proper look.

I think I know your issue.
The drive gear is directly screwed into the lever, yours probably needs to be tightened, had the same issue you described today, tightened the screw keeping the gear into the lever and it works perfectly again.

[daveefordays]

I think I know your issue.
The drive gear is directly screwed into the lever, yours probably needs to be tightened, had the same issue you described today, tightened the screw keeping the gear into the lever and it works perfectly again.

Thanks for the heads up, I'll give it a go. Keen to try more multicolour tpu...