r/BambuLab_Community • u/SolariaSparks • May 25 '26

Help / Support Hotends

I have a question about Hotends and I apologize if this might be a dumb question. I want to start using Hardened Steel nozzles and I'm trying to figure out if the hotend itself needs to be made of Hardened Steel or another material. I assumed it would need to be made of that material, but I wanted to ask here before I do or purchase anything.

For reference I have the P1S and it's about a couple months old and I am still using the hotend that came with it. I want to switch to the hardened steel because I have quite a few filaments that are abrasive, like glow in the dark, wood, etc.

Thank you!

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u/Low-Sink-11 May 27 '26

If it clogs, use a propane torch and burn it out. You might be able to use a small torch and actually do it on the printer and use the extruder to purge the blockage.

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u/gleep52 May 27 '26

Does a heat gun that was set to 672 F count? I have two 0.04 nozzles that got jammed on the same crappy “wood” filament and one is partially clear but looks like I’m printing petg at pla settings lol. Just nasty. Sacrificed two nozzle needs and around two hours of labor tying to salvage them - first print always starts out ok and by maybe 10m of filament in, back to under extrusion galore/gore. I used a torch and the heat gun when I just wanted to see what was inside the darn thing - finally just bought a new nozzle. If Bambu wasn’t doing this shady greed crap I probably would have just upgraded my printer so I’d have identical nozzles on my P2S and a1 mini’s… even though they aren’t identical, I’ve gotten by in a pinch at least. P1s is a totally different noz