Micro Swiss MK8 Plated A2 Tool Steel Wear Resistant Nozzle (MakerBot, CraftBot, Creality, CR10, Ender 3, Ender 5, Tevo Tornado) .4mm

Prints great. Slight temp increase required over a brass nozzle, 5-10 C.

Tried this nozzle on the Creality Ender-5 with the Micro-Swiss All Metal Hotend. The hot-end printed the parts, but this nozzle caused tiny hairs to be pulled across the part when the hot-end moved. Adjusted all sorts of retraction settings, but couldnt get past the tiny hairs. This wasnt too big of an issue as I could hit it with a hot air gun that I use with heat shrink and clean them off. The real problem came in with bed adhesion. Using this nozzle, the PLA+ would not adhere to the bed through the entire print and caused warning. I replaced it back to the standard nozzle, using the same gcode, same temperatures, same material, same bed surface and my PLA+ had no issues with adhering to the bed. In the pictures, the part on the left is printed with the standard nozzle and the part on the right is the Micro Swiss MK8 Plated A2 Tool Steel Wear Resistant Nozzle. Same gcode used for both prints. You can see the adhesion problem with this nozzle and PLA+ Whatever they used to coat this nozzle for wear resistance, drastically affects the materials.

works awesome on my e5 pro.

I got it to work, and it work with about a half dozen prints. The fastest I could get the nozzle to work was 20mm/s at 260C using PETG, and the same speed at 240C using PLA. Up until this point I was using the cheap brass ones from china (the kind you can buy in a 30 pack for $10). They printed at 230C and 60mm/s for PETG, but needed to be replaced monthly. I desperately wanted this nozzle to be my forever nozzle. The one that I would put in and never need to replace again. Sadly this is not the case. I gave it 2 stars because it does work, its just energy and time inefficient. And after 2 saturdays of playing around with this, Im done. Im going back to the cheap ones and Ill try to recycle them so I dont feel so bad about the waste.

My general PLA/PETG temps wouldnt work well after replacing. Had to turn the heat and the nozzle up by about 10 degrees first week or so to get ok prints. After the first week, I was able to go back to the standard settings. Super strange and not documented.

Seems like it will hold up longer than brass with abrasive materials. It does need extra heat. I will probably go back to brass and deal with the wear as it’s easier to dial in print temps

I would love it more if it cost half as much as it does, that being said its a great nozzle

Couldnt ever get it to work. It kept clogging like no other. I tried different nozzle temps, extrusion speeds, fan speeds, bed temp. Every single time I used it it clogged. Switched back to brass and it worked fine. Exterior dimension is thicker thany brass nozzle and didnt fit any of the wrenches I had,I used pliers to tighten it Maybe I got a bad one, idk, but I can not recommend. Pros were fast shipping and looked shiny and clean.

I used this on my Micro Swiss hot end installed on my Ender 5. I printed several multi hour prints without issue and no clogs. I also picked up their .04 nozzle as well. Great parts!

Already started the return was just curious how a clearly used dirty nozzle is shipped to a customer?