3D Printing: Are Makerbot Smart Extruder nozzles swappable?
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2019-06-26

3D Printing: Are Makerbot Smart Extruder nozzles swappable?


The Question: I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with Makerbot smart extruders and
knows whether or not the nozzle size can be changed. I'm trying to figure out
if I can use different nozzle diameters (0.25mm, 0.5mm, 0.8mm, etc.).
Makerbot doesn't sell any replacement nozzles on their site, so I suppose I'm
just trying to figure out if the nozzles on the makerbot use the same diameter/
thread pitch as other nozzles, like the ones from e3d-online.com/Extra-
Nozzles/Nozzle-Pack-1.75mm or if I'd have to mill my own, which is way more
trouble than it's worth.
Any research on the subject is pretty sparse, and the best resource I found is
a www.makerbot.com/blog/2011/04/06/upgrade-your-bot-with-the-new-
makerbot-mk6-nozzles when they still allowed their customers to do such things
themselves. I've searched around their Google Group but got nowhere. Beside
that, there isn't really any information from the last three years or so on the
Makerbot machines.

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