Problem: too many hotends that I want to play with.

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Problem: too many hotends that I want to play with. Let’s see, I have:
A diamond hotend
An airbrush hotend from @Rene_Jurack
2 Chimeras
0.25mm nozzles
A Deltaprintr hotend
And a multitude of v6’s including some volcanos.
Also that Y splitter from Aliexpress is already on a machine here and I got it tuned in.
So. Each thing gets its own printer. We’re designing up a little 200x200mm prusa/ printrbot style machine and going to laser cut 5 sets from MDF. Got no shortage of control boards, probably going to spend a bit on motors, heatbeds, glass, and LM8 hardware, and hoping to have a nice reproducible machine for playing with different things side by side.

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Nice - how’s the Y splitter working
I still have to get my Chimera / Cyclops to work properly

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Splitter needs a dump bucket. That’s where I left off on the large black sheet metal machine. That and the bed needs to be straightened out.
I’m intrigued with using a splitter with chimera - for example 2 colors of PLA into the first nozzle via splitter, and pva support out the second nozzle. Lots of fun setting up the tool change code for something like that.

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When you get to deltaprintr mini hotend let me know what you think. I’m having jamming party on that one.

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I have their printer too. It’s decent. You know, when the arms aren’t flying off. I think the extruder is where my issues were coming from and once I adjusted the spring those got better.

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My issue was with retraction. Even as short as 1mm retract would jam it… It looks very much like heat creep issue