What's your favorite hotend.

[Laserbea4k43]

I've had nothing but endless problems with my Rapido HF. Phaetus has sent replacements and everything. I'm done with it now. I have a "Revo" that I bought for Aliexpress but I've been skeptical so haven't installed. What do you think? Which hotend should I go for?

 

[vinnycordeiro]

I like the Trianglelab Dragon SF I have on my V0, it's been a workhorse for the past 4 years (jesus, already that much?). The HF version is known to be a clog-fest, specially if you try to print PLA on it.

 

[Laserbea4k43]

I have a Dragon SF too. I should proabably just go back to that...

 

[Laserbea4k43]

Will the phaetus dragon stl work with the trianglelab version?

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[vinnycordeiro]

Will the phaetus dragon stl work with the trianglelab version?

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The only difference between them is the shape of the heatblock, so that only affects which silicone socks you can use, the mounting points are the same on both.

 

[claudermilk]

I have Revos on all my printers. After the initial release thermistor issues were resolved, they have been workhorses. It's not the fastest, but for me it's just worked. I don't know how well an Ali knockoff compares to a genuine E3D one though.

 

[swiss3dc]

I've had nothing but endless problems with my Rapido HF. Phaetus has sent replacements and everything. I'm done with it now. I have a "Revo" that I bought for Aliexpress but I've been skeptical so haven't installed. What do you think? Which hotend should I go for?

You could look for the Starlex DHB, with it's different nozzles lengths, Brass or Hardened steel... for voron, they would come with the bambulab heat sink, small and efficient with options to mount various nozzle melt zone lengths within the same nozzle original height.

 

[3dCase]

I have used Revos mini on all my printers for as long as they have been available and trouble free. I never used an Aliexpress one though, only the real deal. I think they are a fantastic and nozzle changes are just seconds and that is it. And now with my touch cartographer I do not even need to calibrate the z offset anymore. Has anybody ever printed with a 0.15 nozzle before? I have and it is amazing(ly slow) high definition!
Yes like @claudermilk said, they are not the fastest but mine have been absolutely without any trouble. I use them in combination with the orbiter V2, another favorite of mine.
The only thing I have against them is the price of the nozzles and it is the only reason why I am not running them with hardenend nozzles for abrasive materials. For that I just bought a Voron zero with a dragon HF on it so I can get hardened nozzles for that in 0.8mm.

 

[NoGuru]

I use Bambu hotends on mine, they are very low cost compared to others and easy to swap out.

 

[Laserbea4k43]

Thanks everyone! I've got some nice options to run with. I'll let you know what I end up doing!

 

[claudermilk]

I have used Revos mini on all my printers for as long as they have been available and trouble free. I never used an Aliexpress one though, only the real deal. I think they are a fantastic and nozzle changes are just seconds and that is it. And now with my touch cartographer I do not even need to calibrate the z offset anymore. Has anybody ever printed with a 0.15 nozzle before? I have and it is amazing(ly slow) high definition!
Yes like @claudermilk said, they are not the fastest but mine have been absolutely without any trouble. I use them in combination with the orbiter V2, another favorite of mine.
The only thing I have against them is the price of the nozzles and it is the only reason why I am not running them with hardenend nozzles for abrasive materials. For that I just bought a Voron zero with a dragon HF on it so I can get hardened nozzles for that in 0.8mm.

I have a 0.15 that I've used. It is slow--but that is a tiny holes, so you have to slow way down to not overshoot the ability to squeeze plastic out. I've also run into issues trying to get good overhangs out of it. I've run the nozzle on both a Trident with Stealthburner and a V0.2 with Dragon Burner. For most higher-detail stuff (miniatures terrain/buildings and vehicles) I've settled on the 0.25 nozzle; it's a good compromise between the standard 0.4 and the ultra-fine 0.15 and not much slower than the 0.4.

BTW, after wearing out my 0.4 on the Trident, I swapped to the 0.4 HF and it's a nice bump in speed over the standard.

As to price, remember that the part is the nozzle and heat break all in one piece. Compare the Revo nozzle to the old V6 nozzle + heat break and prices are comparable--at leas when last paid attention. The ease of swapping and eliminating that potential problem joint is worth it to me.