Aluhotend
Release status: working
| Description | Aluminium and Stainless steel hotend for general purpose printing with ABS and PLA , designed as a drop in replacement for the jhead
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| License | NC
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Introduction
This is the Aluhotend in it's most current format currently it is a 4 piece design
Heatsink - all of these are manufactured with a 2mm hole in the entry and drilled out before shipping to cater for 3mm use the mounting point is dimensionally identical to the jhead and should mount in anything the jhead does, Thermal Barrier - these have taken a few forms before this one most of them have been turned and reduced in diameter from the outside leaving no room for a ptfe liner, the latest version the thermal barrier is a 35mm length of stainless steel threaded rod with a hole bored through it at 4mm , then either a 2mmID 4mmOD or a 3.15mmID4mmOD ptfetube is inserted
the advantage with this configuration is that not only is the liner held captive by the heatsink the large diameter on the thermal barrier provides a great deal of strength and protect against crashes into the bed which would cause damage to previous versions
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Summary: V3 Aluhotend.
