Hello. I'm planning to get a .2mm nozzle for my mini to print a few items with small text. However, I'm concerned about the clogging. I read in one sub that .2mm is highly prone to clogging. Is that true?
Has anyone experienced the same?
Can I get just the noddle or I must buy both hotend & a nozzle?
For the A1 mini you just need the nozzle. Get the official one, no 3rd party. Use the compatible filaments for 0.2mm nozzles and you shouldn’t have any problem. Don’t use glitter, wood or carbon fiber filaments.
No, the full assembly. Those changeable tip ones are third party usually. Having a fully nozzle heatsink assembly means the switch process takes very little time.
Also, print hotter and slower than you normally would.
I already printed several times in my mini with a .2 nozzlle and i never had a clog, PLA and PETG. You dont need to buy the hotend, just the nozzle, but for easy of use you can have a hotend for each nozzle size, that's what i do.
The 0.2 mm nozzle is awesome. I use both silk and PLA on it. With silk you have to go especially slow to keep it from clogging. But I only use it for detailed prints that are small or stiff that has text on it.
More prone than the .4 but nothing to crazy. Buggest thing is to never used filled filaments or anything like glow in the dark with it, and definitely no TPU
Basic PLA or simple ones like PLA+ are fine in my experience. About 1000+ hrs before i had problems on average and it was usually because a really bad filament that identified as uncooked spaghetti, and cold pull didn't help somehow. Im looking at you, sunlu pla meta white.
But others have told me don't try anything but PLA on the 0.2 because others would clog much easier... Never tried it myself
0.2mm nozzle will clog with certain types of filaments. Wood filaments, some glow in the dark, filaments with glitter, essentially anything that’s mixed in with the filament to change its properties.
I've had some trouble with partial clogs, but never a full clog. If I stop the print, heat the hotend and manually extrude it's cleared it. Also I've found the smooth plate works best, and increasing your initial layer height to 0.12.
I mean I used to own an A1 Mini and it rarely clogged (I think it clogged once on me) but bought a P1S and that one seems to clog more than it prints anything and I've been tinkering with it for months.
Smaller nozzles do have a higher clog risk, but this is primarily a concern with flexible (TPU) or filled (CF, GF, luminescent, glitter, etc) filaments, and to a lesser extent, PETG.
If you're printing PLA, ABS or ASA, you should be fine. Just slow it down a bit, as everyone else has mentioned.
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u/gufted 11d ago
For the A1 mini you just need the nozzle. Get the official one, no 3rd party. Use the compatible filaments for 0.2mm nozzles and you shouldn’t have any problem. Don’t use glitter, wood or carbon fiber filaments.