![]() ![]() On their website, they link to a design patent in which they protect the appearance of the Revo nozzles, which means that we won’t be finding either cheap replacement nozzle-breaks or abrasion-resistant nozzles from 3rd party vendors soon if they don’t have a license agreement with E3D. I’m quite extited to find out if they use the simple long meltzone approach from volcano or if they use some of the technology I found in one of their patents in which they shape a tube that’s part of the flow path and embed that in a heater! That’s also where another E3Ds patent on Revo comes in. E3D also recently talked about a high flow variant of the Revo. They will be releasing their abrasion-resistant nozzle shortly, but if you install Revo right now, you won’t be able to print any abrasive materials. E3D also teased Revo CR, a drop-in replacement for the typical Creality style hotends that should be released soon! Revo CR will use the same thermistor as Creality machines, so there won’t be any firmware changes necessary.Īt the time of releasing this video, there were only brass nozzles available from E3D. Then there is a Revo heatsink for Voron machines with a 4-screw mount on the top. E3D offers an upgrade kit for Hemera if this is important for you. You can install the Revo hot side on an old Hemera without a problem, but the spring that usually connects the heatsink and heater core doesn’t connect, so you lose this feature. And since the new Revo nozzles have exactly the same interface that was introduced with the Hemera extruder, there is also a Revo Hemera. Then there is Revo Micro which is a smaller and lighter version suitable for compact machines and fast printing where low weight is essential. ![]() Its length, the heatsink, and the groove mount have exactly the same dimensions. The Revo Six is a drop-in replacement for the old V6 hotend. As we’ve already mentioned, DLC coatings are extremely hard.Revo is its own ecosystem which means that you need to replace the whole hotend if you want to use it on your printer. It's certainly not just there for its non-stick performance. Second, and the (literal) icing on the cake is E3DLC.Retained in the copper body of an ObXidian nozzle, this alone offers great wear performance. To achieve this uber-hardness, ObXidian relies on two things: Several orders of magnitude harder than Nozzle X and indeed any other generic hardened steel nozzle. With a wear resistance that is orders of magnitude higher than any other E3D nozzle, ObXidian is really hard. Strong wear resistance is essential when printing with abrasives, as fibre-filled filaments can ruin a Brass nozzle in hours. E3DLC™ is the culmination of all that hard work.Ī brass Revo Nozzle after a 14-hour print with some of the stickiest PETG we could find!Īn ObXidian Revo Nozzle after a print with the same G-code Our Engineers have spent years researching and testing DLC coatings in search of the perfect composition for our users’ needs. That's not how we do things at E3D though. We could have just used a standard ‘off-the-shelf' DLC coating. ![]() We also want to make it abundantly clear that not all DLC coatings are equal. Check out this guide for more info on our recommended cleaning techniques. These were two of the main focuses of customer feedback about Nozzle X, and we took this on board when creating ObXidian. ![]() You are free to scrub ObXidian to your heart's content. Non-stick properties are embedded into the coating itself. If you're interested, this video gives a fantastic explanation as to how that technology works If you read our recent blog about some of the challenges we've been facing while developing ObXidian, you will have seen that E3DLC is applied by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (or PECVD). There are a number of different ways that thin-film coatings such as DLC can be applied to components. The E3DLC coating has been custom designed at the atomic level to offer an unparalleled combination of wear resistance with anti-sticking properties. DLC coatings are not all the same, depending on composition and manufacturing process. The DLC coating also offers many other intrinsic benefits such as low friction, chemical resistance and thermal stability. What is E3DLC? - We hear you askĭiamond Like Carbon (DLC) coatings harness the strength of diamond bonds, the hardest material on Earth, in a lattice with graphite, to form a strong, wear-resistant coating. We advise against using brass brushes or even paper towels to clean Nozzle X, as these quickly wear away its delicate non-stick coating. Nozzle X also has a non-stick coating, but it’s fair to say it doesn't really repel polymers. Expected arrival time for local dispatch is mid-late November. ![]()
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