Necessary Upgrades For Your Creality K1C/K1 3D Printer 

Love the hinge design for the lid. Thanks!

Awesome upgrades, keep the good work up! There is really thinking energy in this 😊

I love your calm and reassuring tone. Everyone seems to have more free cable length on the run out sensor than I do. lol.

Thank you for the files, they were great and worked perfectly.

Thats awesome mate, I'll definitely do the door and lid modifications using the files you linked. Thank you!

Thank you! I just ordered the K1C and am looking forward to printing the mods! I have been using the Longer LK4 since 2019.

To your question on the side mount. It could be that they wanted to show off what the printer could do. They gave you the model, they gave you the screws, and they gave you the first useful project you could print using the carbon fiber that the printer is designed to print.

Great video thanks for taking the time to make it

Wow! Thank you thank you thank you for the modifications! They’re great. Creality may hire you !

That Nylon printing turned out amazing!

My friend thank you ....these upgrade are verry good you are many creative.

this is the content i like, real understanding and troubleshooting... you should consider more printer reviews, i know there are ton of out there already but a honest practical point of view is always lauder then some sponsored nice talk

Thanks for the riser link. I'm new to printing with a big learning curve and got it printed. My first print longer than 30 minutes.

Excellent video. That lid riser will be made soon. My K1C chain hits the top and knocks it off all the time. It blows my mind Creality did not leave enough clearance for the lid.

Hello! Could you please show your setup for the space pi filament dryer together with this print? You are side loading it straight from the dryer to the runnout sensor right?

Glad to see another video. And love the pod cast. I have a k1 with a lot of mods including the riser. I originally used pla like you did and it started to warp after a while as I print quite a bit of abs. So I ended up reprinting the riser in ABS. So maybe you will have better luck as you used CF PLA. I might be a bit more temperature resistant. I still love the k1. Once rooted and fixing the bed and making it level it is a great printer and is now my favorite out of my 4 printers.

Printing a better spool holder is a major step in the 3d printing experience and Creality did include a stupid one on the back on purpose, so people can say to themselves: "I improved it". Really nice thinking.

Will definitely print the lid hinges and maybe the door hinges. It's a great printer though. The K1C worked pretty well for me straight out of the box.

Hi, nice video! I’m looking to do some of the mods to my new k1c and wondering where you got the screws, nuts and washers? My local big box stores don’t have metric. Did you happen to purchase an assortment pack from Amazon of these mods? Tia!

Micro swiss makes a replacement hotend with some good nozzles. 🔥

printed the lid extender and lid hinges from some carbon fiber i'd used to print the side mount. The hanger worked great on the hinges for me too. i should have printed the mod to relocate the sensor first, the carbon fiber got hung up feeding from the side to the back and had a do over on the lid extender, fed from the back using a dryer instead and printed without issue. Parts printed beautifully, look and function well, only had issue with hole alignment on one corner. i've ordered some nylon for the door hinges, i think that's a good call on your part, plus i want to see how the K1C prints nylon. Thanks again, for me, these are all great upgrades.

270° door hinge is awesome but there is also a latch to print to hold the door in the full open position. Ribsfit has a version of it on printables.

Oh you have the new Pi dryer, I was just about to buy it! (not for nothing, and I know this doesn't matter, but man is it handsome next to the K1 models)

Does the runout sensor side mount use the original screws from when it was mounted on the back?

Love your videos Guy, are there any more woodworking videos you plan on in the future?

Thanks for awesome solutions, i dont know whose idea to make filament in back of the side...this drive me crazy.

I finally swapped from resin printing and got a k1 on sale. Its been great out of the box. Just wish I had the space for the k1 max but i didnt want to get rid of my uniformation resin printer.

Need that new plate for the K1!

Thanks for the video. On my K1C the third hole on the Creality side mount doesn’t line up and is too far off for modification. I ended up using the one from Printables and trashed the four printed out from the Creality model. It’s beyond me how they missed that.

Great content and links. thanks. i really want the added benefits of rooting, but am still pretty new to 3d. i already tried to root 2x and failed, so have been holding off. i used the Guilouz script, got into root on my mac, but it didn't do anything to my printer... pretty sure i'm missing an obvious step out of ignorance.

Hi, Thanks for the great video. I am just waiting for the delivery of my K1. Can you let me know where I can get the files for the Riser, Door Hinges and filament holder please

Good video!!! Could you tell me what sleep mode is in this printer or what it does

I speak Spanish so I didn't understand everything haha, but what material is everything printed on and number 2... would that work with the K1? Or do they have different measurements?

How would i connect the ptfe tube from the dryer to the filament sensor?

Nice work. I don't think I've ever bought any kind of device that couldn't use some sort of user mods. It must be some kind of sickness or something. Ever since I was a kid, I had to take stuff apart to see what made it tick and to see what I could do to improve on it somehow. I couldn't begin to count how many perfectly good toys and appliances I've ruined thinking I could improve on them. It's always nice when the mods work out the way we wanted them to though. It's kind of like getting an engineering degree the hard way, through trial and error; mostly error in my case.

Where can i find this exact side spool mount STL file as I didn't get it with mine (being K1)

Please share the stl for the spool holder, I cant find it :(

For a total beginner do you reccommend Ender 3 V3 KE, Creality K1C or Qidi Q1 pro? I think to go on K1C or Q1 pro only for having the possibility of print hard material like ABS or ASA but if are equal I don't want to wast money. I want also the best print quality without artifactas. Help me. Thank you

Thanks for sharing, I just got mine yesterday and what a pain. Everything works from the files that you shared. Howver the sensor cable is too short. I pulled it slowly and nothing. Any ideas?

I've been saying I'm going to get a 3D printer for years and years. Sigh... Great video!

I didn't need to mod mine but I will I'll wait till the warranty runs out first

Is this safe even with windows are open inside a room?

Could you tell me where you got the screws from for the lid riser?

For all the items you made in this video, can you list the filaments that you used. Or can you use just one for all?

When installing KAMP on the K1, did you replace its normal probing and homing routine, or does it still probe all corners before doing the KAMP process?

I just need to print PLA and PLA LW and ned a very flat first layer to glue parts together with a together fit. Is this the printer for me or would you recommend another?

Hi Guy. Noel here - a short-tempered impatient Vietnam vet from down here in australia. I just bought a K1C from Creality and am in the process of assembling it right now, and really appreciate all the work you have put nto the upgrade, and am hoping you can help me (I am willing to pay $$). My unit didn't come with the triangular piece to hold the filament spools on the side of the casing. Have, by and chance, designed an .stl for this triaangular piece? Noel

2:05 I've found a replacement set of 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8mm unicorn nozzles for the K1C on 3D Jake but they aren't available until june.

How about a direct drive setup with the spool on top of the lid?

How do you like the Space Pi filament dryer?

Where did you get the filament Pi dryer? I can't fine it any were.

Where do I find the print for the riser. Love it!

That was very useful. I am now subscribed. I want to Root my K1C. I found the link. Do you just follow the K1 instructions for the K1C

How did you get that dryer? Can't find it anywhere 😊

But what about the nozzle, it's not hardened steel it's steel coated brass, and all the gears in the extruder are not hardened steel but plastic and metal, please watch Madstech video. Would you recommend this printer for a first printer because I am looking for a inclosed medium sized 3d printer for tpu, carbon fiber, nylon and pla to mount inside a cabinet in my Bus 🚌

any chance you know where to find the side holder file?

Unfortunately the Runout Sensor Mounting Block did not work for me I did not have enough slack It had to much tension to pull out

the lid spacer is being hit on the front right by the head of the printer with the K1C, i'm going to upload a remix of the spacers to fit the profile better as this surely is reducing the print volume in some way.

Logical upgrades or mods.

i need to buy these files to print them?

Why not print straight out of the dryer?

Where do we get your mods

the file your sharing for the runout sensr, is wrong. the once you use has small holes, the one you shared has wide holes

It is so much better if you root it and using orcaslicer…..it is a different machine.

I am glad the didn't put the filament spool on the side. I have multiple printers lined up and I go to the other side of the table to load all the printers. Takes up less space.

Did you shoot this content thanks to a sponsorship agreement? Did Creality give you this printer for free or did they pay you to shoot this video?

these modifications are so basic why can they not incorporate this into the design of the machine right from the beginning . Why do we have to constantly ask manufacturers to put the switch at the front

This is absolutely unacceptable that were needing to make functional upgrades to a $600 printer....if yours even work well

It's very sad that it has to be corrected after the factory. The printer doesn't cost $1. Should I pay $600 and print the parts at home?? I wonder if it will be the same with K2. We'll do shit and you can fix it at home. Give us your money and fuck off.