What model hotend is this?  

Re: What model hotend is this?

Ben

Not certain. You need to compare with the engineering drawings. V5: http://wiki.e3d-online.com/wiki/E3D-v5_Documentation and V6: http://wiki.e3d-online.com/images/b/b5/V6-175-SINK.pdf

Peter

Re: What model hotend is this?

Thanks Peter. In that case it is a V6 🙂

Re: What model hotend is this?

Yeah, I wasn't sure. I just had mine apart a couple of hours ago, and it looks different.

I have the early V6 and I found that the heat break was both partially blocked and bent. I had a mid-brown oily fluid on the filament whenever I pulled it; no idea what it was, but some had burnt inside the heat break.

As for the bend; I have no idea how that happened.

Peter

Re: What model hotend is this?

It doesn't seem a genuine E3D V6 hotend assembly. The cooling fins seem differently spaced to my genuine sourced E3D V6 hotend assembly, (ie bought directly from E3D) used on another printer I built. The cooling fins on a genuine E3D V6 are evenly spaced.

http://e3d-online.com/E3D-v6

Watch the video.

Re: What model hotend is this?

Thanks Peter. In that case it is a V6 🙂
Based on E3D's one spec, the heatsink does not look like a genuine E3D V6 part.

Re: What model hotend is this?

It is a very good point. Thank you 😉

I had not noticed the spacing. On further investigation it is a genuine E3d but it is NOT a V6

It is actually an E3d Lite6.

Re: What model hotend is this?

Definitely the Lite model Ben, that's what came with the Prusa MK1 1.75mm Printer, the MK2's (assembled, kits and upgrade kits) come with the V6 Full version...

The Lite has uneven spacing and the profile is a sort of wave shape...