Creality Ender 3 /Pro/V2 3D Printer Assembled Extruder MK8 HotEnd Kit 24V with 0.4mm Nozzle Upgrade with Low Friction Creality-Capricorn Tubing

Fits perfectly to ender 3 pro, no clogging after user error, prints effectively at what speed i need, easy to install, allows good flow for filament to adhere to the bed.

I always keep a few of these hotends around as spares. They are complete and ready to install, it's easier to change out the entire hotend than to fix some issues and for this price it's hard to go wrong. I have never had any quality issues with this product. Even if you don't want to replace the entire hotend, the parts alone make this a good deal. Sometimes I keep the old heating cartridge and thermistor as they are easier to remove from the hotend than it is to remove the wires from the loom. Then you have a spare heating cartridge and thermistor.

I've owned an Ender 3 V2 for about two years. After a few failed prints and a blobby melted filament disaster, I couldn't seem to get my Ender 3 to work well without sputtering and clogging, and it was shelved. I tried to resurrect it with fresh nozzles and a replacement heatbreak, but it never quite worked right after that. When I realized how inexpensive it was to replace the whole hot-end, I decided to go ahead and dive in. Replacing the hot-end itself on the printer was pretty easy, and only involved a few screws to remove the plastic shroud and access the old hot-end. However, wiring it up was a lot trickier. After cutting the factory cable ties, you have to flip the whole printer on its side and remove the cover plate on the bottom. Take a bunch of reference photos of this space so that it's easier to repackage everything later. The new wires need to be fished through two expanding mesh cable organizer sleeves, which tend to want to want to fray at the ends and snag on the wires. You're better off cutting the original wires at the old hot-end and taping them to the ends of the new wire bundle so you can use them to fish the new wires through. Then, you'll need to unscrew the terminal blocks to detach the old wires, and install the new ones, and remove the tiny plug for the thermostat and replace it with the new one. The blocks on the control board were covered with dabs of hot-glue to prevent the wires from coming loose, so you'll have to pick those off with a pair of needle-nose pliers before you can access them. I found that tightening down the terminal blocks on the new wire ends took a few tries, as they're a little hard to reach and it's difficult to see if each wire tip is in the little metal clamp as it's being tightened. Give it a light tug once the screw is snug. If it comes out, unscrew and start over. Once everything is secure, it's important to bundle up excess wire and tuck it back in neatly. Watch that the wires aren't pressing on the cooling fan inside the case, as mine was, or it'll buzz horribly and you'll have to open it back up again and rearrange. Also, as you're putting the new zip ties on the cable organizer, be sure to pay attention to whether or not they're snagging on the moving parts like the bed and gantry. So for the quality of product and the value, I think it's excellent, but I do rate the difficulty of the install pretty high as the wire routing is fussy and the wiring / controller board compartment is a little tight and difficult to pack neatly.

There are both cheaper and more exotic options for a hot end. This is the OEM part, so it's good and not particularly cheap. The last one started having issues after about 5 years, so not bad.

I put this hotend on my ender 3 stock printer. The temperature sensor was broken on my last hotend, and in the process of trying to remove the temperature sensor, it broke inside of there. I got this, it looks awesome, works amazingly and I love the fact that it comes with capricorn tubing, and 4 0.4mm nozzles. I had some trouble fitting the fan housing over the new nozzle but otherwise perfect. This does not come with any screws or mounting hardware, so make sure not to lose it. It also comes with the silicone heat covers but I keep mine off to see the nozzle better. Overall, 5/5 because it fixed my printer and came with some other upgrades or replacements too.

overall it works great. Heat-up time is fast, prints come out clean, and installation was straightforward. The only issue I’ve noticed is that the filament seems to be coming out a little too much, but that may be related to my recent motherboard upgrade rather than the hotend itself. A little fine-tuning of the settings should clear that up. Overall, a solid upgrade that I’d recommend.

It looked good at first and everything seemed to work fine however thing was faulty from the start. It started out with the Nozzle wasn’t printing fine and leaving over and under extrusion issues and the first layer leeks getting messed up. I then later saw the entire assembly is warped and twisted and when I took a closer look it leaked pla filament everywhere and seized up all my bolts even after heating it up to 205c and after trying to remove it for 1 hour and stripping out thr bolts I had no other choice but to cut the electrical lines so I can get it packed back up for a return. I believe the thing leaked because of the hot end coming twisted. I did hear that some people did enjoy this project and got some good use out of it so I believe it was more of a quality control issue than anything else. Just be warned that when you buy this product it is a hit and miss like any other Chinese product and there is a risk that your hot end will come in twisted and warped and leak your pla everywhere.

Thermocouple went out on my stock print head. Purchased my first of these. It lasted about 2 months, then silently went into a runaway thermal event. Its impressive how much plastic will go through a 0.4 nozzle at 300*c and the mess it makes Purchased a second, it lasted a bit longer (3 years of light use) with the nicest prints I've ever gotten out of the printer. Again, thermocouple went out and it ruined a print 3 days in. Now I'm back and buying a direct drive. Good piece for the price, you may have better luck.

Funcionó perfectamente y no presentó problema alguno, hubiera sido bueno que incluyera un manual de instalación, pero, hay muchos tutorial es en YouTube, y es relativamente simple la instalación.

Tenga cuidado la garganta está mal puesta y no se quita fácilmente si lo instalas así como viene se va a taponear