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  1. finaly not that expansive because if I understand well, machining a complete hotend would cost almost the same price as the full metal does.

    This is not correct, what is said above is that the _machining_ should not be that much more expensive than machining high grade steel, but high-grade steel are more expensive than machining aluminium.

    The material cost compared to aluminium are trough the roof tough, a meter of 20mm aluminium rod might be about 10€, and a meter of 20mm PBI rod is about 1000€, so the material cost is x100 compared to a traditional all-metal hotend.

    If a company were to sell a full hotend, it would probably cost a few hundred €

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  2. So i finally got around to it and finished my design of a mount to be able to mount the UM2+ feeder to a UMO, and therefore be able to use the whole Extrusion Upgrade Kit including the printhead if used in combination with my printhead top piece.

    It prints beautifully without support and it has a slot to hold the cable bundle with three zipties for tidy cable management :-)

    I'll hope some of you guys gets use out of it, since i do not own a UMO+ myself... ^_^

    So, here it is:

    DnVnSxR.jpg

    With the new feeder mounted (without motor):

    og87Que.jpg

    Get it on YouMagine:

    https://www.youmagine.com/designs/um2-extrusion-upgrade-kit-mount-for-umo

    You will also need my printhead top part to be able to mount the UM2 head the right way: https://www.youmagine.com/designs/um2-printhead-top-for-umo

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  3. Those nozzles are often of very bad quality, the inside is not smooth, the small orifice are usually not anywhere near the nominal size, it can easily differ by +/- 0.1mm wich is a huge amount in a nozzle and it can also vary a lot in internal drill depth wich makes the exit hole differ in length which in turn changes the nozzles printing characteristics (pressure, oozing, stringing etc) a lot. And even if one works well, there is no guarantee that the next one will.

    I would not spend my time with such trial and error, but you are of course free to try.

  4. Slightly higher temp is usually what you should try if warping is your problem.

    I run all my PLA prints at 60C bed temperature with clean glass, and use glue stick if i need better adhesion.

    Different brands of PLA does need slightly different temperatures for best bed adhesion tough, and some brands, especially the cheaper ones, are known to not adhere that well to clean glass.

    Off-topic: @IRobertI, i know you have been using lots of blue tape for other stuff than printing tough... ;)

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