Don't know which hotend to choose for your printer? While there's no one-size-fits-all pick, some are better suited for certain jobs than others.

Nothing will stay the same!

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This hotend gets seriously hot at up to 500°C! This does come with a few trade-offs, so is it worth it in the end?

Why does everything i make have to look like a bomb? Well, i guess I'm okay with it as long as it works and it allows me to run this 24V Dyze Design Hotend on my 12V printer... 

Time to clean out the watercooling loop! There's so much gunk in there that the pump can barely move any water around - which might have been pretty much my own fault. Never properly cleaned it before, never ran any of the fluids actually made for watercooling. 

Gotta love the efficiency of the German (mandatory) healthcare system: Cut open my shin with a tile this morning, walked into the ER, got four stitches, doc was like well, if you need to finish your job with those tiles, go right ahead!
That entire hospital visit took a total of 20 minutes, didn't have to do any paperwork, didn't cost me a single penny and i'm right back to working order! Well, obviously, solely soft work for the next few days.

Any gaming geeks around here? ;-)

One of the advantage of being a trusted 3DP review dude: Getting review units before everyone else 😁
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Water loop is back in the PC, everything is back where it should be wrt temperatures and flow rates. Here's what i've learned:
- Denatured ethanol is hard to tell from a bottle of EK coolant when you grab it in a pinch - neither causes any damage when you fill up a loop with it, but one of the two is probably the smarter way to go ;)
- A water loop can develop an incredible biosphere if you don't take the time to clean it properly once in a while and don't use proper biocides. Some of the pictures show the particles i kept finding in there next to 11/8mm hardware.
- If you have any sort of water cooling system where there's any chance of particles forming, use a filter that is finer than your cooling element. Otherwise the cooling element itself will act as a filter (which is bad).
- Cillit Bang orange (acidic cleaner) eats nickel and copper - some of my fittings now have "bald spots" where the copper pre-plating shows.
- Water cooling is nice and all, but a good air cooling system is probably the smarter, cheaper and more reliable way to go. But it's also kinda boring ;-)

Does every Titan need to be big? Turns out E3D's big guy does a great job even when used in its smallest configuration!

It's spring. Which means that, for the next 6 months, I'll get to enjoy the sounds of lawnmowers in glorious 7.1 surround!