The A10M hot end setup ...
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 10:11 am
I hate this stupid nozzle setup for a number of reasons.
- It oozes horribly - as bad as my Volcano setup with a 0.8mm on it. Always have to grab multiple blobs and strands between prints
- Despite lots of oozing, there's a huge amount of resistance in the hot end, resulting in stripped filament and clogs
- Proprietary nozzle....... WHY!? Makes zero sense, I want to use 0.6mm or 0.8mm nozzles
- Huge pain to remove and clean
- Replaced the stock one with a new one from Geeetech, still sucks
I'm yet to print a single dual colour object on this printer, my first nozzle clogged really easily, it was a massive pain to pull it apart due to the design, I clean it all out and try again, again it just clogs on one of the hot ends. So I printed with it on just 1 extruder for a while, quality was pretty average due to under extrusion - the extruder gear would slip every so often
So I bought 2x Trianglelab BMG knockoff extruders to massively up the driving force. Problem is the stupid nozzle design has so much resistance that now instead of slipping i'm just stripping filament
Now I notice there is a little filter/strainer in each hot end, can I simply remove that? That would massive reduce the resistance
If I can't find a magic pill for this damn hot end i'm gonna throw it in the bin and run 2x E3D V6 clones with a traditional dual extruder setup instead. This is way too much hassle, more than a month and not a single print to show for it
- It oozes horribly - as bad as my Volcano setup with a 0.8mm on it. Always have to grab multiple blobs and strands between prints
- Despite lots of oozing, there's a huge amount of resistance in the hot end, resulting in stripped filament and clogs
- Proprietary nozzle....... WHY!? Makes zero sense, I want to use 0.6mm or 0.8mm nozzles
- Huge pain to remove and clean
- Replaced the stock one with a new one from Geeetech, still sucks
I'm yet to print a single dual colour object on this printer, my first nozzle clogged really easily, it was a massive pain to pull it apart due to the design, I clean it all out and try again, again it just clogs on one of the hot ends. So I printed with it on just 1 extruder for a while, quality was pretty average due to under extrusion - the extruder gear would slip every so often
So I bought 2x Trianglelab BMG knockoff extruders to massively up the driving force. Problem is the stupid nozzle design has so much resistance that now instead of slipping i'm just stripping filament
Now I notice there is a little filter/strainer in each hot end, can I simply remove that? That would massive reduce the resistance
If I can't find a magic pill for this damn hot end i'm gonna throw it in the bin and run 2x E3D V6 clones with a traditional dual extruder setup instead. This is way too much hassle, more than a month and not a single print to show for it