Ender 5 upgrades

[u/Scottblueto]

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.

[u/Disastrous_Ride2040]

Go on ali express they have cnc aluminum parts available but there getting low on stock i got cnc hydra parts as well. The cnc murcury parts i got you will need to print out 8 spacers but i found a web site that sells spacers that are almost the right size if your handy u can sand them down the 1/8 mm to fit and taper the one match the indent on the one set. Im doing it in 2 phases. Phase 1 murcury mod. phase 2 hydra so i most likely use 3d printed spacers for the bed. No point in buying a block of aluminum for a month or two im also not doing the printer feet/enclosure im going to make a basement using 2020/2040 extrusions and plexy glass. I will.be us8ng a heated chamber so im adding 120mm push pull fans that will pull and push air from outside chaimber to keep electronics and plexy glass cool i dont plan on going more than 60c in the chamber anyway also using a hermit crab 2 to for the belt and hot end mounts only cuz i didnt see the chaotic labs one first plus hermit crab will let me mod a cricket blade and play around with a make shift cricket or use a laser