It’s alive! Solidoodle Press printing a calibration shape with the E3Dv6 hotend (thanks to http://www.soliforum.com/topic/9709/e3dv6-on-solidoodle-press/ ).
what advantages does his hot end have over solidoodle stock part ?
It can get to higher temperatures so it should be possible to print with other materials. Since it’s a Bowden configuration the carriage is lighter and that means higher speeds. The downside of the Bowden configuration is that there’s a little slop in the extrusion rate right now so I might need to tweak retraction or something.
The biggest advantage in my case is that the stock hotend didn’t work for me anymore (repeated clogging that i couldn’t figure out).
I finally got My E3D Properly configured since I’ve swtiched to bowden extrusion. Definitely less ringing artifacts in my prints at higher speeds. My sweet-spot for retraction seems to work at 5mm @ 150mm/s. I’ve also bumped up my jerk settings which helped with blobs significantly.
We did a print last night with a lot of blobs. Have to tweak that soon, thanks for the suggestion.