🔥 E3D Hardened Nozzle V6 HS 175/400: Unbeatable Authenticity & Superior Durability Review

that originally had to be printed with glow-in-the-dark filament. At first this seemed to be causing the jam, but after troubleshooting I noticed that shortly after installing the nozzle, the filament got stuck in the middle of my thermal break, what a wild coincidence. After replacing it with a new thermal break, the nozzle prints perfectly. I understand that a steel nozzle should usually be printed at a slightly higher temperature, but I've found that in my case this isn't necessary. Maybe…

As expected from E3D, it's really well made. In warmer weather, I printed everything as usual, added maybe 5 degrees to the default filament settings in my slicer to compensate for steel's lower heat transfer, and planned to just leave it permanent. As the ambient temperature in the room dropped, even at 20 degrees or more above the original settings, I had many clogging issues, especially when printing with large flat areas. This can also be offset by slowing down to give the steel nozzle more

I bought this nozzle because I was tired of blowing through brass nozzles. I primarily print PLA, and while the occasional PLA print isn't enough to burn out a brass nozzle very quickly, in my experience, printing for a few hundred hours a month can certainly do the trick. The guitar's high E string slips even though it's less than the 0.4mm the nozzle should be, so I can't check the inside diameter. I had to increase the PLA print temperature from 195°C to 215°C (a 20°C increase) to ensure the