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1 handed nozzle changes are great (youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Once you get a hotend that let's you do this you'll never want to go back.

This is a Phaetus Dragon HF hotend.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see two hands
I wouldn't trust the bolts securing the heat block to the rest of the hotend to not twist under thermal stress. Just hold it with a wrench.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My other hand is simply there to stabilize my shaky hands, it can be done perfectly without the other hand there.

The hotend is a Phaetus Dragon HF, it's designed for nozzle changes without having to hold the block by using small stainless steel tubes in addition to the heat break for extra stability.

And the wrench I'm using is a torque wrench that applies a small enough force to not spin the hotend but enough to bring the nozzle up to spec to be secure.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If that works long-term, that's great.

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