Post #1210823

2026-04-08 19:48 UTC

I kinda missed the boat in stocking up on a spare set of nozzles for this old FlashForge printer... they don't sell them any more. So I guess when these nozzles bite the dust I'm going to be needing a new printer. I know at least one of them is problematic already (I have 3x... 2x 0.4s in two temp ranges, and a 0.6 in the higher temp range.) Though it looks like there are various 3rd party brands of the things out of China on Amazon (I should check AliExpress actually.)

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@yvan@toot.ale.gd 2026-04-08 20:02

Heh, in fact it's maybe a good thing I checked AliExpress as there is what appears to be an official FlashForge account there still selling the nozzles for the old models. Though I'll believe it when I receive the nozzles and they actually work. I've got replacements for both my 0.4 and 0.6 in "hot" (up to 265C) range, it claims the 0.6 is "hardened" so that's a bonus... and they also have a 0.3mm albeit only up to 240C (fine for PLA anyway) so got one of them as I've never printed sub-0.4 before. So hopefully will get a few more years life out of this old thing. It isn't fantastic, but it works, and it does a good job with ABS (whole reason I bought this particular model at the time is I needed an enclosed unit for printing tricky fire retardant ABS filament.) I've had the printer since some time in 2022.

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@wokstation@universeodon.com 2026-04-09 19:41

@yvan I might have some

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