Hi all,
Did anyone successfully use an E3D Chimera with a V6 + Volcano hot end to print perimeters & infills respectively ? (ie high speed AND high quality)
I vaguely recall some talk/ experimentation a while back , but apparently, my search/ google skills are failing me 
Thanks in advance !
The Volcano is fully compatible with the Chimera. What do you mean by “perimeters & infills respectively”?
He’s referring to using a normal sized nozzle for perimeters and the volcano for infill. Won’t work. Volcano is 8.5mm taller than regular v6 block. If you want to do this just buy a larger brass nozzle - 0.6 or 0.8mm is plenty.
I don’t have any opinion on whether you should do this or not, just providing the technical info for you.
@raykholo Not impossible to work around. I kind of like the idea. 0.4 for perimeters, and 0.8 for infill? You would just need a longer barrel for the v6.
@Rien_Stouten You would have to configure your slicer to print infill with a wider nozzle or else you might over extrude into the perimeter.
So volcano is a longer barrel. It’s smallest nozzle is 0.6.
Otherwise you can use the standard barrel (v6) type that chimera comes with and get a larger diameter standard height nozzle for infill.
My primary concern is the inactive nozzle leaking. This is why dual extrusion gets messy. I wouldn’t willingly introduce that into a system that didn’t require it.
You would also need two spools of the same color if you don’t want mixing.
I think there is a 0.4mm nozzle for the volcano: http://e3d-online.com/Volcano/Volcano-Extra-Nozzle-1.75mmx0.40mm
@Chris_Purola_Chorca , hows your machine coming along on this? Wasn’t this your plan a little while back?
@Ishaan_Gov Sweet! Did not know they had released a 0.4, although had hoped they would.
It’s just last night begun printing.
I bought like 4 nozzles: 2 v6 that came with my Chimera and 2 Volcano setups. The Eruption pack doesn’t come with the 0.4mm nozzle, but you can order it separately, and I ran into that same issue; clearly you can’t combine volcano and v6 blocks since their height is way different.
My idea was to just have both nozzles sizes available at all times to print with, but this is also a neat idea. Print small, fine features with the small nozzle and large infill with the bigger one.
The only thing about that is you’d have to print a few outlines with the small nozzle, then a large infill with the bigger one, so I’d be interested to see if that could be done, not sure if any slicers currently support that.
I seem to remember reading some discussions here and there about this very thing.
It might also be good to print support material quickly with a large nozzle, only every x number of object layers, lay down another support layer.
@Chris_Purola_Chorca , Slic3r has supported this for a very long while.
It has been a while since I started up Slic3r, but I don’t think it lets you set the nozzle diameter on each nozzle. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Hmmm…my slic3r won’t even start. I think it broke when I switched to this major version of Fedora.
http://manual.slic3r.org/simple-mode/simple-mode#printer-settings is where the nozzle diameter setting is in the configuration of Slic3r_, so I think I may actually be right. Slic3r does not let you set different diameters for your printer’s nozzles._ for single extruder setups.
Yes it does. Each extruder added in the printer settings gets its own tab and at the top of each is the diameter setting.
In print settings you can select which extruder # is responsible for the perimeters, infill, support, support interface, etc.
@raykholo Ah! I had to find something to show me what that tab looked like.
https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=iiNojbC9jsY 1:23 into the video. @Mark_Moissette_ckaos
@raykholo
Thanks for correcting me. On the upside of things, he now has a nice youtube video showing how exactly where to make the settings adjustment for Slic3r.
Happy to help.
Probably already been said, but it’s not worth trying to use a v6 block + a volcano on a chimera. The height difference is too great and would induce some weird cooling effects.
Better to either use a large v6 nozzle (they make them up to .8mm) or a smaller volcano nozzle(like the 0.4mm), but use the same heater block style.
Hi folks ! Thanks a lot for the precise & usefull answers: my bad abound the height difference of the heater block (how I could miss it with the Volcano & V6 pages open in the background is beyond me !)
@raykholo spot on ! Also judging by some of the reviews of Volcanos seemed to indicate less leaking than on the standard V6 , even with the bigger diameters (not clear on the reasons though).
Also thanks for the infos about the Slic3r settings ec
@Ishaan_Gov great find ! 0.4 volcano is perfect !
@Chris_Purola_Chorca thanks for the feedback! I feel daft, it must be in one of your posts that I saw the perimeter/infill dual extrusion system mentioned , sorry about that
@ThantiK thanks
@NathanielStenzel thanks for the video nonetheless
This all really seems to make the Chimera worth it just for this type of experiment !