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End Game

Phaetus Releases EndCoat and Silicon Carbide Hot Ends for Bambu Lab and Other Major Brand 3D Printers

by Adam Kohut
Published Oct 25, 2024

New high-temperature, high-flow, abrasion-resistant hot ends for Bambu Lab, Prusa Nextruder, select Creality, and generic nozzle 3D printers.

Phaetus has released a slew of new, wear-resistant hot ends and nozzles featuring its “EndCoat” and a silicon carbide coating, respectively. Both coatings increase hardness, enabling printing with abrasive composites like carbon fiber, glass fiber, steel, and wood. The company says EndCoat offers a 2.5 times longer lifespan than a steel nozzle, while silicon carbide is 7 times longer.

First up are the Conch and Conch Plus hot ends for Bambu Lab X1 and P1 3D printers. They both offer flow rates of 35 mm³/s, copper-coated heat blocks, and can print at temperatures up to 320 °C.

The devices differ in heat break and nozzle, with the Conch featuring a titanium alloy heat break and EndCoat nozzle with HV3300 hardness ($24), and the Conch Plus’ arriving with an EndCoat heat break and silicon carbide nozzle with 9.8 Mohs hardness ($39).

Rendering of of a Phaetus EndCoat nozzle claiming a 2.5x service life (Source: Phaetus)

Also available are specialized integrated nozzles for Creality and Prusa Nextruder machines. Nozzles for K1C, K1 Max, Ender-3 V3, and Ender-3 V3 Plus machines also come in EndCoat ($12.90) and silicon carbide ($21.90) versions, both of which can hit flow rates of 30 mm³/s and print speeds of up to 600 mm/s. The Prusa Nextruder offering is a long-life silicon carbide integrated nozzle capable of a 21 mm³/s flow rate that costs $21.90.

Finally, generic EndCoat and silicon carbide nozzles are available in 0.4 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.6 mm, and 0.8 mm bore sizes in V6, Volcano, Super Volcano, and MK8 configurations. EndCoat nozzles cost $9 each, while silcon carbide nozzles cost $16 and Volcano variants $19.

For more on all the products we’ve touched on above, check out Phaetus’s website.

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Adam Kohut

Adam is a contributing writer who joined All3DP in 2022 and has more than a decade in tech journalism. He has written for UltiMaker, Protolabs, and many other (tech) startups and corporates worldwide.

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