Biqu’s New Panda Revo Diamondback Nozzle Costs $329 and Comes with an Actual Diamond Ring
This easily swappable, exotic, diamond-tipped nozzle is now available for your Bambu Lab P- or X-series printers, and, courtesy of Biqu, creatively comes with a diamond ring. Because of course.
Biqu has introduced a new variant of its Panda Revo series of nozzles, and it comes complete with a diamond-tipped nozzle as well as a diamond embedded in the heatsink itself. The 0.4 mm nozzles are designed for the Bambu Lab P- and X-series 3D printers, as part of a collaboration between Biqu, E3D, and the synthetic diamond manufacturer Diamondback.
Don’t get too excited – they’re just synthetic diamonds known as PCD (polycrystalline diamond) – but diamonds they still are, in this case formed into a cluster of bonded tiny crystals, instead of the big single one you might expect to see on a ring. More on diamond rings shortly…
Diamondback has extensive, multi-decade experience manufacturing synthetic diamonds for use in products such as power tool blades. As with those tools, the surface the diamond coating is attached to – the nozzle – becomes really, really hard. In 3D printing, it’s perfect for dealing with highly abrasive filaments such as PLA-CF or PC-GF. Those added fibers can really chew a standard brass or steel nozzle up so a nozzle like this, in theory, rules out the possibility of a destroyed nozzle altogether.
The Panda Revo Diamondback offers what might be the ultimate resistance to these exotic, abrasive filaments. Diamonds are, of course, right up there with the hardest substances known to mankind, and for 3D printing nozzles, they’re the top of the tree, closely followed by tungsten carbide. According to Biqu, even ceramics will not be able to wear down a nozzle like this.
Aside from elite-tier durability and the famous diamond hardness, diamond also has another benefit for 3D printing. It tends to have excellent thermal conductivity, superior to that of synthetic ruby, steel, and tungsten carbide. Biqu also says this nozzle is 100% compatible with E3D’s RapidChange nozzle systems, making switches from one to the other as simple as a slice of buttered toast.
There is a but, though. Diamond-tipped nozzles are not cheap. It’s time to talk about the price.
The Biqu Panda Revo Diamondback is a whopping $329, more money than a few very good 3D printers. As a high-end, premium 3D printing nozzle, Biqu has given it a special presentation. It comes in a gift box, with what even looks like a small light to illuminate its contents, and, somewhat bizarrely, a ring.
Yes, you can actually remove the embedded diamond set into the heat sink and plant it onto the included ring. Present it to a friend, loved one, or maybe even a partner, no doubt livid you’ve bought a $329 3D printing component.
At the top of the list of things we didn’t expect to see this year: a nozzle for a Bambu Lab printer boxed up with a diamond ring. Surprises truly are never far away in the world of 3D printing.
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