The MUTANT

The Universal Tool Swapping System

The MUTANT™ is an innovative new system that will give your FDM printer the ability to change your hot end on the fly, mount various hot ends, and other tools such as laser cutters, pen plotters, food plungers, ceramic printers, dial gauges, and just about anything you think of can be driven by the machine’s mechatronic components!

The MUTANT™ is patent-pending, trademarked, and began development in mid-2018. In early 2109 James Tongue joined us and co-developed the MUTANT with Peter Solomon. The MUTANT has been in beta testing for 5 months as of August 2020 and is production-ready and shipping as of January 2021.

MUTANT Simplicity

The MUTANT makes it so simple to swap out any hot end or tool in seconds; just shut down your machine, swing down the locking lever, and remove your current hot end, replace it with another, swing up the lever to lock in place, and turn back on your machine!

The MUTANT can easily mount to nearly any FDM machines (except for deltas at the moment) with V-slot wheels or can mount to nearly any machine with MGN12H linear rail bearings top or front-mounted as well as to Prusa i3 style machines.

The MUTANT is a workhorse, made to last, and made to ensure consistency.

Its bodies are made from glass-filled Nylon and able to resist long periods in heated enclosures. They contain high-performance PCBs with 2 leads rated at 10 Amps each and 12 leads rated at 2.5 Amps each. Works with 12 or 24 Volt DC systems. You are able to mount all types of bed leveling sensors. Works with Remote Extruders or Direct Drive Extruders.

MUTANT Machine, Hot End, and Tool Fits

The MUTANT can currently fit the following machines and many more: Most every Creality machine, clone, and style machine, BLV Ender 3, Geetech A10, A30 Series, OpenBuilds 3 wheel V-Slot, 4 wheel V-Slot, Prusa MK2.5S, MK3.0, MK3.5S+, Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus, i3 style machines with dual rod bearings. (LINK)
You can mount the MUTANT to your machine using one of the many existing interface plate stl's available to print out and use our included heat press threaded inserts to finish (LINK), you can design your own using our template, or you can purchase one of our Universal X Gantry Plates to replace your current X gantry and mount the MUTANT directly to that.
The MUTANT can currently mount nearly every type of hot end and multiple tools including MK8 hot ends, Micro Swiss, Creality, E3D, Slice Engineering, Phaetus, Triangle Labs, and many more. There are various options for cooling fans and ducts, bed level sensor mounts, and accessories. There are files ready for mounting Pen Plotters, Sharpie Plotters, Laser Mounts, Dial Gauges, Direct Drive Extruders, Cake Plunger, and many more coming. We have an ever-growing library of free to download mounts by many amazing developers. (LINK)

Easy to Install

Shut down and unplug the printer
Remove your current hot end and mount an Interface Plate or swap out machine X gantry for Wham Bam Universal X Gantry Plate. (see below Mounting MUTANT to your machine for the appropriate mount)
Mount the MUTANT Fixed Plate to your machine using the 4 included screws.
Remember to shut down and unplug the printer, cut your wire harness one cable at a time, and use our handy wire labels and record keeper to label wires and keep track of where they go.
Screw wires from the printer into terminal blocks on Fixed Plate.
Mount your hot end to the Mobile Plate and screw your wires to terminal blocks on the Mobile Plate.

And you are done! No need to change any settings or firmware. You may want to set your new Y offset in the slicer or do one of the Y fixes to get the full length out of the new system, this can be done in the slicer program, and some printers can even be modified to move theY end stop or Y-axis rail to gain the 15 MMS. See Teaching Tech’s informative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpciFs30xCA&t=0s

Mounting MUTANT to your Machine, you will need either of these:

Download and print one of the many interface plates available https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4708312 You can use our included heat press inserts to create the 4 threaded mounts for the MUTANT Fixed Plate. We currently have plates to fit nearly every Creality and clone machines, BLV Ender 3, Geeetech A10 and A30 series, and Open Builds 3 and 4 wheel V slots, and Prusa i3 style machines. More coming soon!
Create your own interface plate, use our template (pdf) or 3D files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4718223 and design the hole positions needed to mount it to your machine, use our included heat press inserts to create the 4 threaded mounts for the MUTANT Fixed Plate.
Purchase one of our two types of Universal X Gantry Plate Kits. We offer one for standard V Slot 3 bearing wheel carriages and one for linear rail carriages.

Mounting your hot end or tool to the MUTANT:

Print out one of our many available hot end mounts from the list below or create your own with our mobile plate mounting template. The list is always growing, check out our Thingiverse collection page here https://www.thingiverse.com/groups/the-mutant/things

Attention: Please do not mount this yourself if you don’t already have knowledge and proficiency with working with electrical components. The electrical work is pretty easy, simply inserting wires into connectors, no soldering, no firmware adjustments. If in doubt please bring to a certified electrician. Wham Bam is not responsible for any damage this may cause to your machine or equipment, so please use caution when installing and testing.

The MUTANT

The Universal Tool Swapping System

Introducing the MUTANT

Product Overview

Install and Overview

MUTANT Simplicity

Our Products

MUTANT Base Kit:

MUTANT Base Kit:

MUTANT Base Kit:

MUTANT Quad Kit:

MUTANT Base Kit:

MUTANT Base Kit:

MUTANT Extras:

MUTANT Base Kit:

MUTANT Extras:

MUTANT Machine, Hot End, and Tool Fits

Easy to Install

Wham Bam Newsletter