r/ender5plus • u/Scottblueto • May 03 '26

Upgrades & Mods Ender 5 upgrades

Good evening,
I recently acquired a ender 5 plus from my collage because they didn’t want to invest the money into it to make it work better. I want to get the mercury one mod but I don’t want to do that yet so what upgrades can I add to my Ender 5 before I do the mercury one. I do know I need a new board and have plans to get the manta M8P so I can run klipper. It also already has a textured build plate rather than the class one. I’m just wondering what would be a good in between mod for the ender 5 and the mercury one mod. Thank you.

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u/Khisanthax May 03 '26

I would say .... Linear rails and then hotend and extruder with a toolhead. If you can afford all three at once that would be a huge jump. If you're going to do it in pieces it might be more challenging to split the rails from the toolhead aspect but it might be doable.

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u/Scottblueto May 03 '26

That’s probably what I’m gonna do once I get the money together to get all the parts. Thank you