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Your cart is empty.This is Micro Swiss All Metal Hot end kit with redesigned cooling block for Wenham i3, Wenham i3 Plus and all other i3 clones with the following improvements: Slotted Clamping system No set screw to ding and damage thermal tube Significantly better heat transfer (this is a big one!!!) Easier disassemble and adjustments Precise control on bore diameter Micro Swiss All Metal Hot end Kit Features: All metal hot end upgrade for MK10 style extruders. This upgrade includes a modified thermal barrier tube and modified nozzle with modified cooling block. Thermal barrier tube is made from 2 different materials. The lower thermal break is made from stainless steel and the colder upper part is made from aluminium. Stainless steel was used for thermal break because it offers low thermal conductivity and aluminium was used for the upper portion because it has a lot better thermal conductivity, to carry away any heat from the filament. All metal hot end will let you print at much higher temperature than possible with original PTFE lined one. Another benefit of an all metal hot end design is more consistent melt chamber control. During slow extrusion rate, in PTFE lined hot end, transition zone from solid to molten plastic tends to creep upward creating more stringy prints. With all metal design a transition zone is always constant, being located right at the heat break. With fast extrusion rate, PTFE tube doesn't have enough thermal conductivity to properly melt all the plastic coming out. On MK10 extruders that limitation happens around 60 mm/s, depending on nozzle size. All metal hot end solves this problem, plastic is surrounded by thermally conductive nozzle throughout its length. Orifice size available:.2mm,.3mm,.4mm,.5mm,.6mm,.8mm, 1mm, 1.2mm Kit will fit: Wenham i3 Wenham i3 Plus Moonrise Maker Select 3D Printer v2 Moonrise Maker Select Plus Cocoon Create 3D Printer Kit includes 1 Plated Brass Wear Resistant Nozzle 1 Thermal tube 1 Slotted Cooling block Installation Instructions
Jesse
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
I've installed several of these over a few years and always found the quality to be good. Clean threads, true sizing, and easy installation each time. Tuning for an all-metal hot end can take a bit, but its worth the work when upgrading a printer.
inggrig
Reviewed in Italy on August 26, 2020
con questa upgrade ho risolto completamente i problemi di estrusione e ora posso stampare a velocità molto superiori mantenendo un ottima buona qualità di stampa.Importantissimo su Cura, per evitare blocchi , impostare il parametro di distanza di retrazione su valori piccoli, io uso 0,5 con speed 25
J Swan
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2020
I bought two of the cheaper knock-off all metal hotends you can find here on Amazon. In both cases I had trouble with heat creep causing clogging after several hours of printing PLA at 200 degrees. In one case I purchased a new nozzle and heatbreak from the same supplier as the knock-off hotend, and the nozzle was so poorly machined that it wouldn’t extrude at all. The .4mm hole was almost completely occluded with metal. Perhaps a drill or machining chip?Then I bough the Micro Swiss all Metal hotend for my Maker Select v2 3D printer. Should have bought this to begin with. My son has been printing Mandalorian armor almost non-stop for a week. 20-26 hour prints. Not a single clog or air print. Works like a charm! I don’t know what all the differences are, but Micro Swiss has something the knock-offs don’t have. It just works.First of all, the steel lower section is tightly fitted to the aluminum section of the heatbreak. The top hole, where the filament enters the hot end, is deeper and smoother making it easier to feed new filament in. The nozzle is clean and well made. The inside also seems smoother than the others.I’m very pleased with this hotend. I wasted over $50 on the knock-offs. Wish I had just bought this one instead. Lesson learned!
Jim Giles
Reviewed in Canada on January 18, 2020
I was having severe issues with clogging on my OEM PTFE hotend, so decided to give this a try. What a difference! Once I tweaked a few settings there was no clogging, better flow overall. Just be sure to back off your retraction to 0.2-0.5 mm or your filament will retract too far when molten, then harden and jam itself in the feed tube but good.
Hien T Quan
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2019
Have been printing using the stock hot end on the Wan Hao Duplicator i3 Plus with PLA and ABS. No issues until I started testing with TPU and Nylon. Printing with TPU was a complete pain since the filament kept winding itself near the feeder. Gave up and moved to Nylon. Nylon printing kept causing feeder clicking noises and would sometime under extrude. Upgraded to this all metal hot end together with the micro swiss M2570 CNC Machined Lever and Extruder Plate. Nylon prints now buttery smooth. TPU prints also works without any hassles.Should have upgraded a long time ago - all that time and hassle wasted trying to tweak the settings for the stock hot end.
Ashley
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2019
I will say that I trust the quality of the company, but I just had a bad experience with the product. First, the steel heat break is rounded with two flat sides that can fit a small wrench. The problem is that it's very easy to strip the sides and make the throat near-impossible to remove without using something with teeth- which would cause more damage. This could be fixed better if the break was shaped like a full bolt. Second, the slotted cold block is a great idea, except that the way it's made makes it impossible to adjust the orientation of the heater block. In order to install it on a Wanhao-style machine (MS v2.1), you have to install the throat first, and tighten it since you can't get to that bolt once it's in the carriage. Then, install it onto the carriage, since you can't get to those bolts when the heater block is there. Then properly install the heater block with the nozzle. The last part makes it incredibly difficult to both properly tighten the nozzle and have the heater block oriented the right way for the heater and thermistor. Because of that, my nozzle started to leak PETG, which basically glued the nozzle and heat break together in the heater block, so I ended up losing nearly my whole hotend. These guys are pretty expensive to just lose.
John Berger
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2018
I recently upgraded my Monoprice unit with this hotend primarily because I don't want to have to deal with tearing it apart every so often to replace the PTFE tube. I'm not so interested about running at higher temperatures, but at least that option is now available. So far, it's been running beautifully. I've been running at lower temperatures while simultaneously printing at faster speeds without any problems. As a result, the amount of residual strings has vastly decreased and the quality of the prints seems to be a lot better as well, although that could easily be confirmation bias. Still, many problems that I was having with the stock front end and PTFE tube have been decreased or eliminated, and it's nice to run my prints at a cooler temp but at faster speeds with no apparent impact in quality.Yes, PTFE tubes are a lot cheaper. But if this won't break your bank account and you're going to tear your extruder apart anyway, you should strongly consider upgrading to this and getting rid of the need for PTFE tubes.
runamoK
Reviewed in Germany on November 5, 2018
Eines der besten Upgrades für den Wanhao.Mit dem original Wanhao-Hotend hatte ich schnell Probleme mit verzopften Nozzles, auch nach Reinigung oder Austausch traten schnell wieder Probleme mit Underextrusion auf.Mit dem Microswiss-Upgrade konnte ich dieses Problem beheben.Der Einbau ist sehr gut dokumentiert und sollte in einer halben Stunde erledigt sein.Das Kit lief jetzt ein Jahr ohne Probleme. Langsam wird aber eine neue Nozzle fällig, aber das ist nach dieser Zeit zu verkraften.
Henry K
Reviewed in Australia on November 10, 2018
Great quality product. Delivered in 2 days.
Chris Townsend
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2017
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Nathan C
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2017
Pros:- Can now print in excess of 280C!- Also able to print far faster and the hotend can keep up, which is very nice.- No more clogging. 4 days print time and not a single clog with any material.- Nozzle is very smooth and of great quality.- Excellent machining quality- Made in USACons:- Directions say to finger-tighten the nozzle, when hot....comes lose like that. Just use a wrench to tighten.- Nozzle replacements are spendy.Other:- So, my heating block was spinning and I couldn't figure out why. So, I tightened the slotted cooling block VERY tight, but that didn't fix it. The issue was the nozzle wasn't tight enough to the hot end...had to use a wrench. Very surprised I didn't strip out the block, because I was wrenching hard!- This is being used on a Monoprice Maker Select V2. Now am able to print PETG and nylon, without an issue. The stock PTFE tubed hot-end is garbage, replace it ASAP.
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