3D Printer nozzle size?

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After RMRRF 2025 I am starting the project of upgrading my LR3 to a LR4. I have a friend that has a better 3D printer than me and is offering to help print the parts up. (So I won’t need the help with my printer settings Jeremy, thanks though). The question has come up around printer nozzle size. Does it matter here? He has both a .4 and a .6. I sort of assume it doesn’t matter, but figured I would check here just incase there is actually an issue around that.

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Both will work fine.

Not enough details to answer… what printer, what extruder, what slicer?

If the extruder can flow the material properly the .6 can significantly reduce your printing times and still provide good part quality.

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Sorry, good points. He has a Bamboo A1. Full size, not the mini.

Philip

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I also used an a1. Printed with .6 nozzle and 3 perimeters. Worked great very good and strong parts

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Also printed with a 0.6 nozzle at 0.32 or 0.4mm layer height. :slight_smile:

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Thank for the info here on this. Parts are printing now I have been told, starting with the core. I have also ordered a Jackpot controller and some belts from V1. I will get a build thread going once I have parts in hand and we are starting.

Philip

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Possibly unwisely, I used a 0.8 at “0.55mm DRAFT” for most of my parts. “Es gibt nur ein Gas, Vollgas.” as they say. (honestly, it’s also just my default at this point, only way to even approach the speed of modern machines with an 8 year old printer…)

To be clear, I am not recommending doing that. I don’t think it’s contributed to the, er, teething difficulties I’ve had with my machine, but it’s not implausible. Stick with what has been better verified - I haven’t got any points of comparison.

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I love that you guys are using it now as well… :smiley: I made you guys use a German saying… :stuck_out_tongue:

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I discover all the time phrases I like have German ancestry :slight_smile:
Still working to try and commit the German versions of them to memory, though.

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Sorry but you can only take credit for that particular saying, a significant minority of my day to day vocabulary was already german.

When it comes to expletives, it’s a a significant majority… :laughing: :sweat_smile:

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I did the same as @Tokoloshe. I am very happy as well with those exact same settings.