I'm thinkin about getting one of those ruby nozzles for my printers to basically be able to print anything without ever having to worry about a degrading nozzle. I've seen quite a few videos about it, but I still don't know two things:
- Given the surrounding material is brass and only the tip being out of ruby, doesn't the filament path where the molten filament gets pushed through still wear out over time (heavily so with CF or GF filament)?
And also
- How good are the cheaper ones, specifically the "DUROZZLE" one (since that's the one I could find that's 0.6mm and cheap)?
As much as i know how much a diamond back nozzle costs. If you print alot of abrasives its worth it, for context. Diamond back nozzles are like $100+ But they use PCD its manmade diamonds. And the most common instrustrial use for PCD is extruding wire.
Like electrical wire, they use PCD to strip the metal part of the wire for making wire. They easily have 4 months of life in Constant use.
Which when you factor its copper or aluminum its pretty wild.
So plastic is going to be 1000x that.
So a ruby just really is not worth it really its more of a gimmick. Because they cant be manufactured as precise as pcd
Ruby isn't quite as hard as diamond, but it's close. Technically it's just red sapphire, and they've been manufacturing sapphire for a while to use as lens protectors for phone cameras. Am I missing something?