@sindarius Just tested and working well - many thanks!

I made some experiments where the nozzle is swapped upside down so that gravity cannot pull out a string.

My theory is, that with retracting, some air gets inside the hotend which is caught by surrounding, sealing melt and warmed up then, pressurizing the melt again. Therefore my strategy would be a fast, short retract of about 1mm to remove printing pressure, followed by a very slow retract (for about 15-30sec with about 0.5mm/min and step-wise descending speed) after swapping to the experimental idle position, which should compensate expansion of trapped air or outgassing moisture/other fumes.

I already did some tests with a macro and it reduced the length of the emerging string significantly (about 3mm instead of >10mm) but still not 100% and therefore, I will do some further testing in the next few days.

I don't have any particular complain about the connectors, I'm pretty easy going on that regard. The very small beige ones are tedious to crimp but fortunately I've purchased the wire-kit.

I know it's already pretty small but what I would love is for it to be with one side 40mm max, even sacrificing a connector (or using a smaller one) or dropping the switches.

I'm doing a magnetic toolchange with very small heads and I'm having troubles positioning the toolboard (I'm actually thinking of using an expansion 3HC instead of the toolboard).

@T3P3Tony what kind of trigger do you have in mind?

I was something like that but didn't found yet how to actually do that.

@dc42 I will upload a video this weekend of the material change in process, so that everyone can see where the issue lies and better understand how the mechanical side of my filament selector works.
On another note, Thank you for always being so attentive to this forum! I don’t think I’ve ever posed a question that you didn’t have some input on. I really appreciate that!