I don’t print any abrasive materials at all. Pretty much only normal PLA and PETG.

I noticed, that my print quality gradually went down quite a bit, especially in the last few prints. I had a lot of stringing, weird blobs, and scarred surfaces.

Now, the print quality is as good as it should be!

They are dirt cheap. You can get a set of 10-15 generic ones, in different sizes, for only a few bucks. Don’t forget that they are consumables.

  • clb92
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, you could get hundreds of cheap nozzles for $70. I’ve bought packs of 10 nozzles for 74 cents. That’s almost a thousand nozzles I could get instead of one $70 tungsten one. Or maybe “only” 800 nozzles if I factor in a pessimistic shipping cost too.

    EDIT: Checked the price I paid and it was even cheaper than I remember. Edited my calculations.

    • @thisbenzingring
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      74 months ago

      The time and care required to changing the nozzle (unless you’ve got a good mod or fancy system) isn’t worth it IMO.

      Quality > Quantity

    • @ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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      34 months ago

      And after a while, you can melt all those nozzles into an ingot of whatever it is made of and show off the weight to others.

      • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        44 months ago

        Brass pot metal most likely. Don’t expect to be able to sell it for much though.

        Might be neat to learn sand casting and make a huge commemorative nozzle trophy, or even better, a container for the future spent nozzles!