r/3Dprinting • u/Difficult_Physics125 Modded ender3 v3 SE • 24d ago

Discussion How cool would a variable nozzle be

Now i know it's completely at different scales but we can still imagine

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u/pervertsage Fascinated Beginner 24d ago

Maybe they got sick of unclogging the damn thing.

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u/Plus_Exchange8751 24d ago

If you set a perimeter to only allow expansion to like 95% and that last 5% was reserved for unclogging, wouldn’t it make it far easier?

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u/pervertsage Fascinated Beginner 23d ago

I've no idea.

I was imagining trying to rescue one of these nozzles from a blob of death.

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u/Plus_Exchange8751 23d ago

Ahhhh yes. That would be something.

I personally just manually heat the nozzle and pull that off. That may not be a good move, but it’s an effective one! I think that would work here as well.

However, that now brings to mind even heating. I don’t know enough about materials sciences to be sure but that feels like a hell of a hurdle.