15 Jun 2026 • 5 mins read
When do you actually need a hardened steel nozzle?
Carbon and glass fibre blends chew through a brass nozzle in a few hundred grams. How to spot a worn one.
Mert Uslu
Print settings, maintenance and material notes. Everything here was tried on my own machine and measured.
Carbon and glass fibre blends chew through a brass nozzle in a few hundred grams. How to spot a worn one.
A cube measuring 20 mm does not mean your printer is calibrated. A practical way to find the extrusion multiplier with a single-wall test.
The fault is rarely in software: it is the belt, the pulley grub screw, or an overheating stepper driver. How to eliminate each in turn.