What's the best all metal hotend design out there why? What is ideal? For example do you want a long or short transition zone? Do you want the material (let's use pla in this example) melted closer to the nozzle or further away from it?
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What's the best all metal hotend design out there why? What is ideal? For example do you want a long or short transition zone? Do you want the material (let's use pla in this example) melted closer to the nozzle or further away from it?
ideal hotend.
high resolution (smaller nozzle)
evenly heated
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Originally Posted by botfeeder
I was thinking more along technical lines. Wouldn't the ideal hotend have a very small transition zone? Like a really tiny hotend?
a short transition zone give you more control, less ooze. it can give you issues with certain plastics that like to melt slowly. these would need to be printed slower. i have had hot ends with longer zones and shorter. i much prefer the short zone. i run an e3dv6. a very short zone on that. fantastic hot end.