Hardened steel nozzle for A10M/A20M? Anyone tried them?

DzzD
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Re: Hardened steel nozzle for A10M/A20M? Anyone tried them?

Post by DzzD » Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:35 pm

I found great nozzles MK10 M7 thread and 2mm inner diameters and they works great !

Choice from 0.2 to 0.8 mm (shipment is around 3 weeks)

Here : https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/33009261 ... 7199qx2ZB7
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Jdbye
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Re: Hardened steel nozzle for A10M/A20M? Anyone tried them?

Post by Jdbye » Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:30 am

DzzD wrote:
Mon Dec 02, 2019 11:35 pm
I found great nozzles MK10 M7 thread and 2mm inner diameters and they works great !

Choice from 0.2 to 0.8 mm (shipment is around 3 weeks)

Here : https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/33009261 ... 7199qx2ZB7
Thanks. I might be ordering some of these. I have heard some things about cheap chinese nozzles having an unevenly drilled hole on the inside leading to poorer quality prints (but the only way to check that is by cutting one in half) I think the one I linked would likely work as well, they both say M7 MK10, but not sure if the one I linked would be any better quality, and it costs a lot more. At least the reviews for the one you linked are good.
I might get some 0.6 or 0.8 mm as well in addition to 0.4 mm to have for printing with larger layer heights than 0.3 mm, good to have for some larger prints that don't need to be high detail. Not sure if there is any point in getting any 0.2 mm, a 0.4 mm nozzle can print down to 0.1 mm fine and the printer can't go beyond that anyway.

I received the nozzles I ordered. Got 1x 0.2mm (gonna try to push the layer height even below 0.1 mm, will see how that goes, in theory it should be possible, as the Z axis is capable of making smaller steps), 3x 0.4mm (these are the ones I will probably be keeping in my printer and only swapping out for the other ones for specific prints) and 1x 0.8mm (for super quick prints at 0.6mm layer height), all in hardened steel.
But they look completely different than the official ones. They are much wider on the outside. The inner diameter appears to be the same, at least the visible part, though it has a chamfer which is wider at the top, which the official ones lack.
The screw threads look a bit different, and they don't reach all the way up on the original, but they do on the replacements. Not sure if that matters for the fit or not.

Will update with whether they fit, and how well they work for me.

RyanRutkin
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Re: Hardened steel nozzle for A10M/A20M? Anyone tried them?

Post by RyanRutkin » Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:00 pm

Jdbye wrote:
Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:30 am
Will update with whether they fit, and how well they work for me.

So, did those nozzles work for you?
I'd like to start using carbon fiber polycarbonate on my A20M and was pretty discouraged when I found there were hardly any options for nozzle upgrades.

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