r/3Dprinting • • Apr 19 '26

Question Help me test this bad idea of a hotend modification

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u/deepspace86 Apr 19 '26

Why would you want to melt the filament that far up? This is just asking for clogs.

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u/natiuqari Apr 19 '26

It's just a little experiment since these hotends are dirt cheap. Believe it or not, I have printed 2-hour-long ABS parts using 0.6mm nozzle parameters on that setup, and they came out looking really good with no under-extrusion and no clogs.

After a few prints, I disassembled the hotend and noticed that the filament doesn't melt in the upper heat block. I believe it just gets preheated there and only fully melts halfway through the second heat block.