I agree. The benefit of having documentation and debugging available to the community on day 1 outweighs any frustration with special treatment. Doubly so when TT didn't even ask for an early unit and was unaware of the shipping delays. TT is just being helpful.
I also wasn't upset about it. I think TT's videos about modding the printer are great for the community overall. This is a project that probably wouldn't be happening without TT's focus on it.
It is modifications like this that has me so interested in the Sovol SV08. I certainly appreciate people such as yourself in the community developing these mods that I would simply not have the time to research to work out for myself.
@@User-ec2bh The toolhead is not purchasable on amazon, but the comment was more that I hope they're available around the time I'm actually in the mood to build one. Also that if the toolchanger mod is good and easy enough, all the standalone toolheads may get bought out fast.
Great content! Love seeing the OGs doing great work 😅 IMHO you are being much to apologetic for the timing of your work. If successful, and on budget, this will be a wonderful option for the entire community . Thanks for the teams hard work!
Great job. The fact the extruders are connected by USB is awesome. That makes it so easy to add additional extruders or swap them out with different custom extruders even if you're not going for an automated toolchanger. The aluminium shielding should be soldered to the shielding on the cable (9:30)
.... this series of videos is no doubt the one I'm really looking forward to. Great work, so nice to see the incredible work you're doing, take all the time you need, biggest problem for me is trying to find an explenation for the appearance of _yet another 3D printer in the house_ in a couple of months to the misses :)
Wow, makes me appreciate my Prusa XL even more. Interesting project but I would probably end up burning my house down. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see you printing with it.
🎉🎉 tool changer vid. I ordered my sv08 after part 1 and got it a few weeks ago. I wouldn't worry about skipping the line, especially since they would have to keep some inventory aside for reviews and responsibility problems. Thank you for all your work and especially your attention to making this amazing documentation
Don’t apologize to the impatient and entitled complainers. The project takes as long as it takes. This isn’t your only project nor is it your most important one…that would be your family. Your collaborators likewise have their own priorities. For years you’ve freely shared so much of your time and knowledge, no one should ever question your dedication to the community or demand output on a schedule.
Yesssss! Been waiting for this- I’m following along and building my own sv08 tool changer too- planning to use dragon burners for the other tool heads :D can’t wait for more- such an awesome series and really appreciate the effort you’ve put into documenting all of this
Well done, Michael! Thank you. I was encouraged by the open source SV08. I was planning to get one, and add my own heated enclosure so I can print ABS. All of our current products are TPU so I'd need to ensure it'll print TPU. Ultimately, I'd like to design some products with ABS and TPU in the same part, so a two tool head SV08 would be ideal. The Creality K2 Plus is out now but its CFS doesn't feed TPU. Bambu is releasing a TPU that feeds in their AMS so presumably it'd work in the CFS, and other filament manufacturers will hopefully start providing higher durometer TPU as well, which we needed even before these multi-reel filament feeders, just to print TPU faster with higher print quality while retaining TPU's excellent interlayer bond strength, impact resistance and chemical resistance.
I can't wait for this to be refined. I've always wanted to play around with 2 toolheads - mainly one for printing main material, and second for a water soluable support material - so you can have 100% support interface, and still easily remove supports and have flawless overhangs and bridges and such - without needing loud cooling.
Seriously…. No stress between the videos. Like everyone, I’ve been hanging out for it since you posted the video. But people need to realise that creators have a life too. Keep on rocking. If I see you in person, I’ll buy you a thank you beer.
THANK YOU for continuing this! I'm following along at home as I want this for my SV08. LOTS OF great CONTENT!! p.s. It's okay to take a breath between steps.
This is such an awesome projects. I really hope the results are half decent. If they are, I will build one of these as soon as the files become available. This seems like an awesome hobby-engineering project to do. And, I have been eyeing the Prusa XL for years now, but can't justify the cost. Anyway Michael, Draftshift team and others helping, thank you very much and keep up the good work!
Looking good! I know im not the only one to say this but I cannot wait until this is completed. Thank you for all your hard work and pass on the thanks to the teams you are working with on this!
awesome! i am really excited for this series. I do not know why your vids do not show up in my youtube sub feed. I have to periodically click on ur channel to see.
you mentioned it, but may I ask why you didn't run a single cable from the toolhead board and a single cable from the power supply to the top of the printer and then hub the bus (for both power and usb) from there? wouldn't this lead to a significant reduction in complexity and cable mess as well as make maintenance of individual toolheads a bit easier?
I looked up every day in your channel, hoping Part2 might be releaed! I was waiting so long for Part 2, but dont get me wrong! Everything you are about to achieve with this passionate attitude needs to take its time! Its done when its done! so dont apologize for something taking longer nobody has done before and giving it to the community for free! Thank you very much for your very impressng projects you are coming up with!
you are doing a great job! cant wait for the next part. got my sovol ready for this treatment 😎 mean wile Sovol takjng notes 🤓 2 months after you release part 4/4 Sovol releases the SV08 toolchanger haha. would be a smart move for them.. think they will sell like hot cakes 💵
My case almost identically matches Vikram's. I ordered my SV08 first week of July to be sent an email saying shipping is delayed until the last day of the month, where it will then be sent out straight from China. July 31st rolls by and I send another email; response saying that shipping is delayed to mid-August. And yes, people who waited and ordered through Amazon did receive their printers first. There are multiple reports of this on the 3D Printing Discord server (ad: where I've also made a project post going more in depth on the technical side; currently I'm working through the process of dialing in input shaping. Hint: Sovol did not make it easy). My printer arrived this last Tuesday, but the enclosure and touch screen that I bought bundled with it are still nowhere to be found. Figured I'd share my story for anyone that was interested or perhaps wants to follow my project post. *I was thinking about developing my own toolchanger for the SV08 as well, so I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! Maybe I can save myself some time and build your instead lmao. Edit: since TT's doing a toolchanger, I've decided to start working on Hybrid CoreXY
Thank you for all your work. I've been waiting to buy the SV08 until you have completed your project. I am also considering the Troodon 2.0 because it is closer to a Voron2.4 than the SV08. I live in a tiny home at the beach so space is a limitation. I only have room for a couple printers. I like the idea of a tool changer over a MMU. Again, Thank You and keep making great content.
What an amazing step by step guide. Been wanting to update my voron to stealthchanger and I'm glad more videos like this are coming out showing how it can be done. Really hope stealthchanger and its derivatives gets taken on by third party companies and we get full cnc kits of the carriages.
Amazing, can't wait to see how this works out. I'll probably wait for a mainstream version to be released (rather than make it myself) but this feels like it's progressing that goal and helping everyone in the process. 🎉
I am very interested in this project and I will be following it closely. I have been seriously considering a 5 head Prusa XL bu the cost is prohibitive. Thank you for taking on this effort.
Personally I think I'd prefer a termination block at the top/back of the printer to plug / unplug everything instead of extending the wires and having them connected at the board. If you ever have to disconnect or amend something its easier to do that later without pulling the printer out and accessing the base. So far I'm loving this mod and looking forward to something very similar for my printer when I (eventually) get one, just hoping for a killer holiday sale before I pull the trigger. Thanks for the great videos!
Loving it! Mods will eventually make these a greater printer. Sadly still waiting for my enclosure but i'm thinking tool changer may even be a better option One little hint though as it looked like you didn't but staggering the solder joints and heat shrink will make for a much thinner extension and should be more flexible too, but great work all the same
Whoa..... liquid tape in a squeeze tube? I've used liquid tape for years, but it's always been brush on similar to rubber cement. Which means it does out and goes in the trash long before it gets used up. A squeeze tube is next level. And if it has that built in needle to help seal the top like most CA glues in can think of, then even better.
Looks like this will be a really accessible and easy mod. I can't find an affordable IDEX to do multi-material printing, so this project might be what I use instead.
Part one of the series was an influence for me starting a project to build a custom machine reusing some of the parts from one of my existing printers.
This is nice. I look forward to a decent out of the box solution with all of the trimmings, and no faff. Surely something like this should exist in the next few years. The prusa XL, was close, albeit buggy and overpriced, but I have to imagine something will pop up.
You're way too critical on yourself, I find it to be quite a feat already to be able to "design" and build the solution so far and such a short amount of time. I can imagine you must not have children for this to be even remotely possible 😅. I wish I had the time to invest myself in such a project. But I am glad you had. I have implemented several of your ideas and projects since I began tinkering with 3D printing and this one will likely be the next, whenever budget allows (such an equipment was out of my possibilities until now). Having designed a few small projects, hopefully someday I will have enough time to properly document them and produce content to share them with. And my goal is to get to a point that I can produce collaborative work with legends such as you. Keep up the good work. It is really good stuff. Thanks for the impact you're creating.
Great project! You should include your development and work hours in your cost overview. I would estimate at least 20€/hour for fiddling and testing alone. Development should be more like 30€/h. So at the end you pay not with money but with time and nerves. It's always the same tradeoff with DIY: money traded with time. But at the end I hope you get the desired results! This could be a cool project to start with the "ready-to-print" Sovol SV08 and have an upgrade path later on (which Bambu Lab printers or the K1 series from Creality do not offer. Cheers!
When i was waiting for my enclosure and some other stuff, i just sent them a mail asking whats going on and when to receive the stuff. They answered within one day, shipment took another day. They are obviously a bit overwhelmed by the amount of orders and shippings, but they are there to help
I wasnt upset you jumped the queue! You're making content for it which I will use on mine, so I'm glad you had the time!
Yeah, content creators getting early models is never a bad thing
I agree. The benefit of having documentation and debugging available to the community on day 1 outweighs any frustration with special treatment. Doubly so when TT didn't even ask for an early unit and was unaware of the shipping delays. TT is just being helpful.
I also wasn't upset about it. I think TT's videos about modding the printer are great for the community overall. This is a project that probably wouldn't be happening without TT's focus on it.
Wow, can't believe people are being salty over this. Of course brands are going to send to content creators first, it's a win win for everyone.
Never clicked so fast, looking forward to what the results are
Cc
I'm only half into the video but I already appreciate your work. Thanks for your contribution to the open source printer world
It is modifications like this that has me so interested in the Sovol SV08. I certainly appreciate people such as yourself in the community developing these mods that I would simply not have the time to research to work out for myself.
Looking forward to Part 3, and hopefully the SV08 and toolheads will be easily purchasable at that time.
Why is the SV08 hard to get? It's in stock on amazon
@@User-ec2bh The toolhead is not purchasable on amazon, but the comment was more that I hope they're available around the time I'm actually in the mood to build one. Also that if the toolchanger mod is good and easy enough, all the standalone toolheads may get bought out fast.
Great content! Love seeing the OGs doing great work 😅 IMHO you are being much to apologetic for the timing of your work. If successful, and on budget, this will be a wonderful option for the entire community . Thanks for the teams hard work!
Thanks for this project!!!
@radish6691, I regularly check for and 'heart' super thanks because I do appreciate it, including yours a couple of months ago.
@@TeachingTech I missed that. 🤦♂️ Please accept my sincere apologies and I’ve deleted my earlier comment.
No problem buddy. Sometimes it might take me a week or two to search for them so I understand where the confusion comes from.
Great job. The fact the extruders are connected by USB is awesome. That makes it so easy to add additional extruders or swap them out with different custom extruders even if you're not going for an automated toolchanger. The aluminium shielding should be soldered to the shielding on the cable (9:30)
Very very impressed as to how much work and collaboration is going into this. Can’t wait to see it all done!
You are an influencer and a 3d printing legend. If Tom and Joel can get free Prusa, surely you deserve a free Sovol.
.... this series of videos is no doubt the one I'm really looking forward to. Great work, so nice to see the incredible work you're doing, take all the time you need, biggest problem for me is trying to find an explenation for the appearance of _yet another 3D printer in the house_ in a couple of months to the misses :)
Wow, makes me appreciate my Prusa XL even more. Interesting project but I would probably end up burning my house down. Keep up the good work, can't wait to see you printing with it.
Great work. Don't apologise for being first to get ur printer especially when ur doing something to add so much to the community.
🎉🎉 tool changer vid. I ordered my sv08 after part 1 and got it a few weeks ago. I wouldn't worry about skipping the line, especially since they would have to keep some inventory aside for reviews and responsibility problems.
Thank you for all your work and especially your attention to making this amazing documentation
The is my favorite project I’ve seen and I love being brought along rather than just shown the final result. I’m excited for the next episode.
Good job Michael, I personally don’t own a sovol machine, but it’s great to see people push 3d printing to the next level
Keep up the good work 💪
Can't wait see it printing
Don’t apologize to the impatient and entitled complainers. The project takes as long as it takes. This isn’t your only project nor is it your most important one…that would be your family. Your collaborators likewise have their own priorities. For years you’ve freely shared so much of your time and knowledge, no one should ever question your dedication to the community or demand output on a schedule.
Indeed!
I dont think the complaints are about this project, rather its towards Sovol for random delays
Dziękujemy.
Yesssss! Been waiting for this- I’m following along and building my own sv08 tool changer too- planning to use dragon burners for the other tool heads :D can’t wait for more- such an awesome series and really appreciate the effort you’ve put into documenting all of this
What you are doing here is so cool. can't wait for part 3
Well done, Michael! Thank you.
I was encouraged by the open source SV08. I was planning to get one, and add my own heated enclosure so I can print ABS. All of our current products are TPU so I'd need to ensure it'll print TPU. Ultimately, I'd like to design some products with ABS and TPU in the same part, so a two tool head SV08 would be ideal.
The Creality K2 Plus is out now but its CFS doesn't feed TPU. Bambu is releasing a TPU that feeds in their AMS so presumably it'd work in the CFS, and other filament manufacturers will hopefully start providing higher durometer TPU as well, which we needed even before these multi-reel filament feeders, just to print TPU faster with higher print quality while retaining TPU's excellent interlayer bond strength, impact resistance and chemical resistance.
I can't wait for this to be refined. I've always wanted to play around with 2 toolheads - mainly one for printing main material, and second for a water soluable support material - so you can have 100% support interface, and still easily remove supports and have flawless overhangs and bridges and such - without needing loud cooling.
Seriously…. No stress between the videos. Like everyone, I’ve been hanging out for it since you posted the video. But people need to realise that creators have a life too. Keep on rocking. If I see you in person, I’ll buy you a thank you beer.
THANK YOU for continuing this! I'm following along at home as I want this for my SV08. LOTS OF great CONTENT!! p.s. It's okay to take a breath between steps.
This is such an awesome projects. I really hope the results are half decent. If they are, I will build one of these as soon as the files become available. This seems like an awesome hobby-engineering project to do. And, I have been eyeing the Prusa XL for years now, but can't justify the cost.
Anyway Michael, Draftshift team and others helping, thank you very much and keep up the good work!
I'm extremely happy this is happening. Thank you! Excellent editing as well. Thanks for never wasting our time!
@ first i was sceptical about this, but damn, you are a Maniac, GREAT JOB! i am very tempted to give this a try!
Looking good! I know im not the only one to say this but I cannot wait until this is completed. Thank you for all your hard work and pass on the thanks to the teams you are working with on this!
Love this project…..can‘t wait to see the next Part/Step…..
lots of topics covered - worth the wait! thanks!
since part 1, I got my machine as well and so far I'm lovin' it.
awesome! i am really excited for this series. I do not know why your vids do not show up in my youtube sub feed. I have to periodically click on ur channel to see.
you mentioned it, but may I ask why you didn't run a single cable from the toolhead board and a single cable from the power supply to the top of the printer and then hub the bus (for both power and usb) from there? wouldn't this lead to a significant reduction in complexity and cable mess as well as make maintenance of individual toolheads a bit easier?
Michael, this is FANTASTIC! I really look forward to the finished product as I'd LOVE to do this with my SV-08!
So happy to see this! You published part 2 faster than I expected! Can't wait for part 3!
I looked up every day in your channel, hoping Part2 might be releaed! I was waiting so long for Part 2, but dont get me wrong! Everything you are about to achieve with this passionate attitude needs to take its time! Its done when its done! so dont apologize for something taking longer nobody has done before and giving it to the community for free! Thank you very much for your very impressng projects you are coming up with!
WOW, great start, IMPRESSIVE JOB you all are doing. Love the progress
Thanks for sharing your experiences with all of us 🙂
you are doing a great job! cant wait for the next part. got my sovol ready for this treatment 😎 mean wile Sovol takjng notes 🤓 2 months after you release part 4/4 Sovol releases the SV08 toolchanger haha. would be a smart move for them.. think they will sell like hot cakes 💵
My case almost identically matches Vikram's. I ordered my SV08 first week of July to be sent an email saying shipping is delayed until the last day of the month, where it will then be sent out straight from China. July 31st rolls by and I send another email; response saying that shipping is delayed to mid-August. And yes, people who waited and ordered through Amazon did receive their printers first. There are multiple reports of this on the 3D Printing Discord server (ad: where I've also made a project post going more in depth on the technical side; currently I'm working through the process of dialing in input shaping. Hint: Sovol did not make it easy). My printer arrived this last Tuesday, but the enclosure and touch screen that I bought bundled with it are still nowhere to be found.
Figured I'd share my story for anyone that was interested or perhaps wants to follow my project post.
*I was thinking about developing my own toolchanger for the SV08 as well, so I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! Maybe I can save myself some time and build your instead lmao.
Edit: since TT's doing a toolchanger, I've decided to start working on Hybrid CoreXY
Thank you for all your work. I've been waiting to buy the SV08 until you have completed your project. I am also considering the Troodon 2.0 because it is closer to a Voron2.4 than the SV08. I live in a tiny home at the beach so space is a limitation. I only have room for a couple printers. I like the idea of a tool changer over a MMU. Again, Thank You and keep making great content.
What an amazing step by step guide. Been wanting to update my voron to stealthchanger and I'm glad more videos like this are coming out showing how it can be done. Really hope stealthchanger and its derivatives gets taken on by third party companies and we get full cnc kits of the carriages.
Been looking forward to this! Can’t wait to see more progress, thank you for all your work on this project!
Wow, really a lot of work, but it is amazing what you are doing.... thank you for sharing.
man...can't wait for the next episode of this!
Impressive work! Looking forward to the finished piece.
If they dont already, SOVOL should pay you for these videos... Youre the reason I ordered an SV08
Looking forward to the next part! I'm glad to see/hear you'll be releasing the files soon.
Thanks so much for putting time into this. I am looking forward to this getting finished up.
Amazing, can't wait to see how this works out. I'll probably wait for a mainstream version to be released (rather than make it myself) but this feels like it's progressing that goal and helping everyone in the process. 🎉
Great work, I’m loving this project!
FINALLY!!! Been waiting for part two for so long
This will be my next 3D-printer project as soon as you release the final version :)
This project is so cool! Thanks for making it happen.
Thanks. While I could manage neither the hardware nor software work for this it was certainly informative.
Amazing progress, I'm also looking forward for Klipper release with the multitool support.
I am very interested in this project and I will be following it closely. I have been seriously considering a 5 head Prusa XL bu the cost is prohibitive. Thank you for taking on this effort.
Very exciting update! Time be damned, thank you for putting this together with such detail!
keep going can't wait to see the finish result
Personally I think I'd prefer a termination block at the top/back of the printer to plug / unplug everything instead of extending the wires and having them connected at the board. If you ever have to disconnect or amend something its easier to do that later without pulling the printer out and accessing the base.
So far I'm loving this mod and looking forward to something very similar for my printer when I (eventually) get one, just hoping for a killer holiday sale before I pull the trigger.
Thanks for the great videos!
I look forward to part 3! Great work!
Fantastic job Michael!!
Finally, ive been waiting for part 2 for what feels like years.
another cracking vid matey, can wait for the next installment (no hurry :) )
This I a very interesting, I am reily looking forward to seeing the completed setup. Keep up the great work.
Cheers. Mike Irish
oh boy, now i have to order 3x new toolheads :D
of-course will use affiliate link :)
Hi. Thanks a lot the work in Sovol!
Awesome work! Hopefully the design is enclosure friendly.
Great job! Can’t wait to do it!
Incredible work!!
Outstanding work my friend. Looking forward to this.
Very well done young man! S. Evan
Impressive work!
Nice work man, you're incredible!!
Amazing project.. I’m from Brazil and I order a sovol sv08 looking forward your steps.. thanks man!
Loving it! Mods will eventually make these a greater printer.
Sadly still waiting for my enclosure but i'm thinking tool changer may even be a better option
One little hint though as it looked like you didn't but staggering the solder joints and heat shrink will make for a much thinner extension and should be more flexible too, but great work all the same
Awesome, I always wondered how the multiple toolhead control is set up.
Been looking forward to this video.
Whoa..... liquid tape in a squeeze tube? I've used liquid tape for years, but it's always been brush on similar to rubber cement. Which means it does out and goes in the trash long before it gets used up. A squeeze tube is next level. And if it has that built in needle to help seal the top like most CA glues in can think of, then even better.
Ive been so excited for this video
Awesome work.
You are doing such a huge favour for the community you don't even realise it :)
Cool project man!
Great work. Hoping to copy this mod in the future!
Looks like this will be a really accessible and easy mod.
I can't find an affordable IDEX to do multi-material printing, so this project might be what I use instead.
Been waiting for this video !!!
Sorry to contribute to the pressure Michael! I imagine too many of us are too excited!! - CWB
Part one of the series was an influence for me starting a project to build a custom machine reusing some of the parts from one of my existing printers.
TT is back with the SV08 TC!!!
Excellent progress. I get the hardware side, but I find the software side intimidating. Looking forward to move updates.
So excited to watch!
Cool project Thanks for sharing.
This is nice. I look forward to a decent out of the box solution with all of the trimmings, and no faff. Surely something like this should exist in the next few years. The prusa XL, was close, albeit buggy and overpriced, but I have to imagine something will pop up.
Awesome job but it looks like an incredible amount of work !
I will Never be confidant enough to do it 😅
You're way too critical on yourself, I find it to be quite a feat already to be able to "design" and build the solution so far and such a short amount of time.
I can imagine you must not have children for this to be even remotely possible 😅.
I wish I had the time to invest myself in such a project. But I am glad you had. I have implemented several of your ideas and projects since I began tinkering with 3D printing and this one will likely be the next, whenever budget allows (such an equipment was out of my possibilities until now).
Having designed a few small projects, hopefully someday I will have enough time to properly document them and produce content to share them with. And my goal is to get to a point that I can produce collaborative work with legends such as you. Keep up the good work. It is really good stuff. Thanks for the impact you're creating.
I've been waiting for this
awesome to see an update on this!
Awesome! Keep going man
Great project! You should include your development and work hours in your cost overview. I would estimate at least 20€/hour for fiddling and testing alone. Development should be more like 30€/h.
So at the end you pay not with money but with time and nerves. It's always the same tradeoff with DIY: money traded with time.
But at the end I hope you get the desired results! This could be a cool project to start with the "ready-to-print" Sovol SV08 and have an upgrade path later on (which Bambu Lab printers or the K1 series from Creality do not offer.
Cheers!
When i was waiting for my enclosure and some other stuff, i just sent them a mail asking whats going on and when to receive the stuff. They answered within one day, shipment took another day. They are obviously a bit overwhelmed by the amount of orders and shippings, but they are there to help
Great stuff!