{"id":2133,"date":"2015-05-03T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2015-05-03T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T17:52:36","slug":"new-3d-printer-hotend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"New 3D Printer Hotend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had my 3D printer for a while now, and have been fortunate in that most of the parts used in it were given to me by a friend who had spares or samples companies had sent. While it worked, and worked well in a lot of circumstances, I was fighting to try and get the quality I wanted out of prints, as well as fighting the hotend to reach and maintain a temperature for some of the higher temperature materials like ABS.<\/p>\n

I decided that I would replace the existing hotend with a new one from E3D. Specifically, the E3D-V6<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They’re pretty highly reviewed, and relatively inexpensive, so I ordered one up, and waited for it to ship over from the UK. Once it arrived, I got to have a nice little unboxing, and got to work on getting it installed.<\/p>\n

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It took a couple evenings of work to get everything set up properly and whatnot, but pretty soon I had a new working hotend.<\/p>\n

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And here’s a neat little time lapse video using the new hotend to print the top of the case I designed in my last post.<\/p>\n