What would you build if you were starting again now?
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@zapta now i have a dragon hotend so no more problem with spinning heater block! E3D served me well in the years, but it's time for them to update their design.
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@mikes I gave up on the V6 a few years ago after the heat break kept loosening in the heatsink during prints. I've been using a cheapo Chinese hot-end for a few years that cost $15 when I bought it, plus replacing the supplied crappy fan with a Sunon mag-lev type for another $7. It has set screws to hold the heatbreak in the heatsink, and a metal bracket that is screwed to the heatsink to hold the fan. No more rotating heater blocks or melting, rotating fan mounts. It came with a 50W heater and cartridge type thermistor.
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@mikes said in What would you build if you were starting again now?:
@zapta now i have a dragon hotend so no more problem with spinning heater block!
I also have a dragon but with a E3D round grove interface.
Once I will have my voron up and running will see how I can convert it to the two-screws type mounting.
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I've got a couple of "no name" units something like these.
The design is like the right image but with the plated copper block of the left image.
The fan mounts to the heat sink via the four threaded through holes - for those that like push/pull fans.
It doesn't use grub screws to hold the heater/thermistor cartridges which is too bad.
The V6 mount removes leaving two threaded holes.
I bought two of them to see if I liked them (I do) but now I cannot find them again. The inventory of vendors on AE seem to change with the winds.
Frederick
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@mikes, after reading your post I looked again at my grove mounted Dragon and realized that if I remove the groove adapter, it has 4 screw holes that I can use with the Voron Dragon variant. Thanks for your post I will have a proper Dragon with a single hand nozzle replacement
(The documentation of the Voron leaves so many details out to a point that many steps require extensive research in the Fusion 360 model, youtube, and discord).
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@zapta that's exactly how i mounted it. However you should always use 2 hands for nozzle swapping... twisting force on the x carriage will be a lot less and prevents damage
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@mikes said in What would you build if you were starting again now?:
However you should always use 2 hands for nozzle swapping... twisting force on the x carriage will be a lot less and prevents damage
Yes, I think I will do that. Also, need to make sure just to resist with the pliers and not actually turn them since this also can damage the hotend.
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Tiny-m - It's like a voron v.0.1 but 2020 extrusions and a bit bigger!
Very fast and precise...shown here in dual material configuration.
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@printernoodle said in What would you build if you were starting again now?:
Tiny-m - It's like a voron v.0.1 but 2020 extrusions and a bit bigger!
Good choice. Large printers are overrated IMO.
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@zapta Nice
