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Easiest Way To Tighten Heatbreak, Hotend And Nozzle?

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The result is that it’s not possible to properly tighten the nozzle if you have a heat break that threads to a fixed depth inside the heater block (such as the dragon or mosquito.) The nozzle will tighten all the way up against the heater block without making good contact against the heat break — which may result in filament leaking. Similar to the Pheatus Volcanizer, I first screwed them all the way down, then tightened the nozzle against the heatbreak to ensure a good seal, and then tightened the nuts against the heater block for optimal heat transfer into them and into the nozzle itself. This allows for consistent extrusion at faster printing speeds. If you want to print with high-temperature filaments or use larger nozzles, then a bimetallic heat break should be beneficial. The use of copper at the lower thread of a bimetallic heat break might extend the melting zone, but it is also very effective in drawing out heat.

Loose heat block after nozzle change

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Yes. The nozzle has a built in heatbreak similar to the Revo hotend so they are changed cold with the filament removed. Tighten the nozzle about 1/4 turn while hot (you shouldn’t be able to tighten much further. Creality Mk8 nozzles need a 6mm AF socket, V6 and other MK8 nozzles take a 7mm AF socket. Always hot tighten a nozzle to prevent the formatin of a gap. Similarly, always heat the hotend before undoing a nozzle, because if it was properly hot-tightened, it will be extremely tight when cold, you’re likely to damage it before it comes

Note: If the ceramic tube is pulled out during the installation of the hotend, and it is difficult to put it back in the cooling state, please wear temperature insulation gloves, properly heat the nozzle temperature, and use tweezers to put the ceramic tube back. They should meet in the middle so to speak. Use your fingers to make the nozzle and break snug. The nozzle should not be all the way against the block. Put the heatbreak back in the heat sink. Heat your hotend to about 230c. Hot tighten the nozzle to the heatbreak. If there is no gap between the top of the heatbreak and the heatblock RE: Loose Heater Block after changing nozzles You should definitely be able to tighten it properly. As Chuck said, there might be a physical obstruction that of course Prusa support can’t see. As far as the Dragon is concerned, I have switched all my Minis and Mk3S over to those hotends. Seamless drop-in (well, you need to print small adapters to prevent the

Install the nozzle by hand (making sure the nozzle is not screwed against the heating block, there should be a small gap which indicates its pressed against 1 What should I take care of to replace the nozzle of the hotend assembly the right way? What kind of data, precautions, tools, steps, and verification are important for replacing the nozzle? The procedure seems straightforward but tutorials differ

RE: What is the best way to ensure the correct gap between nozzle and the heatblock? AS @bobstro said, if the hotend is properly assembled, there’s no way there ISN’T a gap when you (hot) tighten the nozzle. If you have to leave a gap manually, that means the heatbreak is not screwed in deep enough: (click on picture of full view) It doesn’t need to be very tight. You always finally tighten a nozzle when hot, because the block expands when hot, and if you tighten it cold, there would be a gap above the nozzle when it expands. Similarly, only undo it when hot, otherwise it will be too tight as the block has shrunk the heatbreak and nozzle together. There are many cases where filament can get stuck in your hotend or PTFE tube, leading to printing issues. It’s important to fix the problem when it does happen, but some users don’t know the best way to do this. Keep on reading to learn how to properly remove stuck filament in your 3D printer.

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The hotend comprises a nozzle, heat block, heatbreak, heat sink, and pneumatic fitting. The filament feeds through all these parts in the following order:

Install the thermistor and heater cartridge The Trianglelab Matrix Extruder comes mostly assembled, so the thing you need to do is to attach the heatblock to the heatbreak, and then tighten the nozzle to keep it in place. Please note that the heatblock orientation should be turned 180 degrees from its current position (with the thermistor hole in the front, and the The nozzle and heatbreak touch inside the heatblock which prevents it from getting loose with friction, so that could be why you cannot thread the heatbreak in more. I first screwed in the heatbreak into the block until it was flush, then screwed in a new nozzle (so it didn’t have filament on the top threads) and used a wrench to get

This will tighten the nozzle against the HeatBreak and ensure that your HotEnd does not leak. You want to aim for 3Nm of torque on the hot nozzle – this is about as much pressure as you can apply with one finger on a small spanner. This article provides step-by-step instructions for changing a damaged nozzle on your 3D printer. To accomplish this, you will need a ratchet wrench to both remove the old nozzle and install the new one onto the printer.

Hi all, I‘m having trouble reassembling the heatshrink with the hotend and nozzle properly. When I tighten the heatshrink to the hotend, the screws and the hotend aren’t aligned to the printer head and I can’t mount it there. So, here’s my question: How do you tighten the heatshrink to the hotend, so that it is firmly connected with each other and the mounting holes show in the right No big deal, disassemble the hotend as per the instructions on their support side and correctly screw in the heat break. Sounds like a lot of work when you read the instructions but is actually pretty straightforward. Also, from the angle in the video it is not clear to me that you have enough space between the nozzle and the heater block. It looks like the nozzle is tighten to the heater I have recently installed a cheap chinesium bimetal heatbreak on my sidewinder x1 v4. Unfortunately, this makes the nozzle clog really quickly. Changing filament and up to first 30mins of print are fine and run smooth, but then the nozzle gets clogged. This can only be remedied by taking the hotend apart, cleaning and reassembling it.

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Symptoms of a loose nozzle, or mis-alligned o/gapped Bowden tube include clogging/jamming due to heat creep, clogging/jamming due to the plastic sticking in the gap between the Bowden tube and the nozzle, and backfeeding of the plastic onto the heater core and up

Loose Heatblock after Nozzle change

If you want to know more about the Core Heating Technology, please check out that video! In the end, I concluded that volcano hotends are obsolete because just changing a simple nozzle improves your machine’s performance more than switching to a longer and heavier volcano hotend. Once I had the heater block and the nozzle removed, I double nutted the heatbreak with two 6mm-1.0 nuts and removed the heatbreak. I then cleaned up the threads with a 6mm die for the heatbreak and nozzle, and a 6mm tap for the heatblock. You may want to warm the parts with the butane torch to soften the melted plastic to help clean Instead of focusing only on the gap between the nozzle hex and block, focus on getting the heatbreak in far enough that there’s no way you can tighten the nozzle up flush against the block. After full heated tightening, a gap should remain. The gap isn’t the important thing, the tight seal between the nozzle and heatbreak is.

During reassembly I first screwed the nozzle in, twisted back 3/4 turn, inserted bowden tube down and re-tightened nozzle while hotend was still running hot. However it seems that the nozzle does not go all the way in (also tried without bowden tube), and I can still see some threads in between the nozzle and the hotend block.

There should be a small gap between the nozzle and the heater block, to ensure that the nozzle is tight against the heat break. Be sure to tighten the nozzle with the hot end at normal working temperature, otherwise it will leak. If you still get leaks, you may have a badly machined nozzle or heat break. You can implement Luke Hatfield’s hot end fix, which tries to prevent leaks by Gently tighten the nozzle whilst holding the heater block still with a spanner and using a smaller 7mm spanner to tighten the nozzle. This will tighten the nozzle against the Heatbreak and ensure that your hotend does not leak. Yup, you got it. The nozzle should go all the way up and the heatbreak should go the remaining distance. But be very careful when you tighten the heatbreak to the heat block, since the part of the heat break that’s closest to the heat block can be very fragile.

The trouble is, when I heat the thing up to 280 degrees and proceed to tighten the nozzle with a torque driver, as soon as the nozzle’s thread butts up with the heatbreak, it begins to drive the heatbreak out of the heatblock, turning the whole hotend (radiator and all) with it. The effect being, the nozzle ends up flush with the I’ll show you how the hotend on a 3D printer works, which might seem much more complicated than it really is. Using a large 3D printed hotend model, I’ll exp The hotend assembly (hotend+heatbreak+block) keeps getting loose against the heatbreak thread itself I put thermal paste on it, tighten it pretty good, but it always gets loose and wobbly and messes with the prints.

If you have the nozzle screwed all the way into the heater block, when you try to tighten it against the heatbreak, you’ll be tightening it against the heater block, not the heat break, leaving a gap between the two, and it will leak.