Some photos of my custom E3D hotend can be found on my made one page on Thingiverse. The hotend consists of a custom-made aluminum heatsink and a custom stainless steel thermal barrier. The heater block was reused from my stock UM, also the nozzle, but drilled from 0.4 mm to 0.6 mm to have a 66 % larger throughput.
That holder looks awesome. Is it SLA'd? We printed a PLA one today in anticipation of our E3D hotend. Made a few minor changes to use plastite screws for assembly and to allow both halves to be printed separately without support and then screwed together. I can't wait to get the hotend and set this up, it's a beautiful combo and we're excited to see how it performs.
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Because of the very long leadtime we have at the moment when ordering one of the E3D hotends I decided to go for a custom-made hotend that is truly inspired by the original (more or less the same size, materials, and so on). I thought a bit of pretesting could be a good idea as I'll already ordered two of the original E3D hotends for even tougher tolerances and the extra nozzles. Also to support that great example of engineering buying the original is a must I think. But for the meantime I'll use my "copy".
The hotend is working like a charm and in excactly the way described by am001. Highest temperatures without any plugging, great bonding, and insane speeds even with ABS. I love that thing!
Some photos of my custom E3D hotend can be found on my made one page on Thingiverse. The hotend consists of a custom-made aluminum heatsink and a custom stainless steel thermal barrier. The heater block was reused from my stock UM, also the nozzle, but drilled from 0.4 mm to 0.6 mm to have a 66 % larger throughput.
Many many thanks to am001 who designed that awesome E3D hotend holder!!
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