reprapworld hotend

Hi, is anyone using a hotend from [reprapworld.com], they seems to be reasonably priced. I made the mistake of buying a jhead from china on ebay So looking for another now.

Cheapest I can find a well made jhead is £54 in the UK. Or can anyone recomend a decent hotend that I can get shipped to the UK without spending a fortune

I brought this j head the other day. I've only used it for a few hours but it seems absolutely excellent so far. JHEAD

thanks, they look good quality, but they don't have any listed on ebay right now, but have sent them a message.

Still considering the one from reprap world as they are a bit cheaper and have lots of spares available?

There is a reason they offer so many spare parts... I've broken the teflon barrel once (a mounting problem, I suppose)

Also, the hotend has a comperatively long melt zone - you need quite a bit of force for the extrusion.

Get it from the source. The J-Head design is the brainchild of Brian Reifsnyder, and his web site is HotEnds.com. We should support the real developers as much as possible.

I would do but I am in the UK and will probably get charged £15+ import duty

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261163729498

those j-heads are back on ebay again, thinking of getting one my self.

yeah them on ebay look tempting, but I have decided to get one from hotends.com even with import charges it should be no more then £55 and I know I will have the best available.

+1 for the original J Head from Brian.

well in the end I got the jhead from reprap-uk on ebay, as I was feeling a bit impatient,

The jhead looked fine at first, soldered it all up and came to fit into my wades to find it would not fit!

although it is listed on ebay as 'All parts are precisely machined according to the original specifications'

the peek is 16.6mm! I have sent a msg on ebay and he is blaming his supplier for sending the peek rod that size!

why the hell he did not check it and machine it down I dont know. then he tells me it is up to me to modify the peek or my extruder!

so if anyone else is thinking of buying one I would think twice, I have now had to use a printed jhead mount that holds it against the bottom of the wades, seems ok for now.

Using a mount should work fine. If it prints fine, you are up to printing an odd-sized Wade main body