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High-flow 3D printer nozzles are in my opinion one of the most important additions to 3D printing of the last years because they are able to melt material way more quickly at the same size as a standard nozzle. No more long, unstable hotends and custom fan shrouds. E3D released their REVO hotend system over a year ago which is great if you swap nozzles regularly yet it uses custom and design-patented nozzles so you’re only able to use their nozzles. And this was a serious problem and the reason why I replac
Even if you don’t own a Bambulab printer, you might have already stumbled over a print where you had matte surfaces on one height and shiny ones on another. This has been becoming a more and more common problem when we try to print faster and faster. We have now reached the point where printers, even with 0.4 mm nozzles, run faster than their hotends are capable of melting the plastic that you want to extrude. If we take this Benchy right here and compare glossy and matte surfaces to the flow visualization,
Even though extruders for 3D printers only need to push the filament into the hotend they come in many different forms and shapes. Everyone knows the most basic feeders from Ender printers with a single gear directly on the stepper shaft. But there are a ton of more advanced extruders, with dual gears next to each other, dual gears in parallel, small extruder gears, large extruder gears, and even one that pushes filament forward with a belt. All of that driven with large stepper motors, small steppers, plan
FLUX | Bring Your Designs to Life
The Meltzone - Your friendly 3dPrinting Podcast