So a while back I acquired one of the large Kaly modular enclosures. After seeing how much @SeanHacker Loves Dick, I went on the adventure/nightmare/wild goose chase of printing TPU. I have a Creality Ender 3. I have to say for the money I have been quite pleased with this printer. I was still running the Bowden tube set up though. I tried various ways of printing TPU with that (none successfully) until my hotend had a melt down. So I decided to rebuild the whole thing from the board up basically.
I upgraded my board to a SKR mini. With that came a whole rabbit hole in its own. After learning a little bit about C++ I configured my own custom firmware for the new board along with a bl touch and direct extruder. Unfortunately because my hotend went out I wasn’t able to print any mounts for my new parts… so I went custom fab with it 
. My whole goal was to get the printer printing well enough to be able to print some mounts/covers for all the new stuff…
After weeks of learning and tinkering and experiments, I finally have printed my first somewhat decent TPU gasket. I still have some fine tuning to do in the slicer and firmware but his damn this one felt good… I was starting to think I would never get here ha. I call it “Frank Ends Reality” because it’s a Frankenstein ender 3 from Creality… and Fuckin Frank… Now that I have a functioning printer again I can finally learn fusion360 so I can design some mounts for my fans, extruder, bl touch and such. It works!!! Now it’s time to refine and beautify my creation. All of the upgrades were done for about 50 bucks… Board, Bl touch, Extruder, Fans and Gantry Plate. .
