Upgrade your printer to print exotic and high temp materials (up to 320C). Real all-metal assembly, even in the heatbreak, unlike other cheap hotends on the market. This is a great hotend for the price if you’re looking for a solid, budget all-metal hotend with a lot of upgrades available for it.
Tips for Using This Hotend
Read our article about using All-Metal hotends here: Using your All Metal Hotend
Technical Specs
Fully Compatible with all “V6” Style hotend Mounts – The Tough Hotend is made from the GPL V3 Open Source V6 design and is compatible with all “V6” style hotend mounts – CAD Model
TRUE All Metal Heatbreak (not PTFE lined)
Multiple Nozzles Included for larger diameter and printing abrasive filaments – 0.4mm Brass, 0.6mm Brass, 0.4mm Steel, and 0.6mm Steel Nozzles Included
Compatible only with 1.75mm Diameter Filament
If you print over 260C you may need to insulate the heater block from the cooling fan to reach high temperatures. We sell Silicone Socks separately, you can add them above.
Parts Included
1 Meter PTFE Tubing
2x PTFE Fittings (one for hotend and one for extruder)
2x 100K NTC 3950 Thermistors (About 2-meter length with JST-XH 2-pin termination)
Use Marlin #1 Thermistor Setting (Creality Printers and Anet use #1 by default) – Support in Unified Firmware for these and all TH3D Thermistors
Max temperature is 320C
40W 12V Heater Cartridge
40W 24V Heater Cartridge
30mm 12V Fan with shroud
30mm 24V Fan with shroud
TH3D MultiMount Supported
This hotend works with our popular MultiMount system and all the printers the MultiMount Supports. Our MultiMount supports many of the popular Creality printer models. Check out the MultiMount System Here: MultiMount System by TH3D for Groovemount Hotends (V6/Revo6/Mosquito/DragonflyBMO)
Printed Mounts
Below are links to mounts that work with this hotend for popular models. If your model is not listed go to Thingiverse and search “your printer model V6 Mount”. We also do printing so if you need a mount printed please submit a print request to us for a quote.
Creality 3D Printers
CR-10/CR-10S/Ender 3/Ender 3 Pro Models
Hero Me (for use with standard heaterblock)
Hero Me (for use with High Flow/Volcano heaterblock)
Click here to search Thingiverse for more mounts for this model.
Ender 5/Ender 5 Pro/Ender 5 Plus Models
Hero Me (for use with standard heaterblock)
Hero Me (for use with High Flow/Volcano heaterblock)
Click here to search Thingiverse for more mounts for this model.
DISCLAIMER: All these mounts are community designs. TH3D Studio LLC is not responsible for any issues with these 3rd party links. They are provided for convenience to you so you do not have to search for mounts. This hotend is compatible with almost every “V6” type mount for any printer model.
Assembly Video
V1 vs V2 Assembly – The assembly of the V2 is the same as the V1 except for the thermistor slides in and is secured in with the grub screw on top of the heater block. DO NOT OVER-TIGHTEN THE THERMISTOR GRUB SCREW AS IT CAN DAMAGE THE THERMISTOR.
Part Fitment/Installation
This is a universal 3D printer part. That means it will work on almost any 3D printer (check your printer voltage and part voltage) with the correct mount for your specific machine. Thingiverse is a wonderful place to locate mounts and we also have printed parts in our shop for some universal parts.
It is up to you to determine and select a mount for your specific printer model (or design one) to install this part on your machine and wire it up to your machine (if applicable). You are welcome to Contact Us for recommendations for your particular printer model for mounting options that are available online if searching yourself does not yield any results.
Warranty Information
3 Months Warranty - Our warranty covers any and all defects with the product. If your product fails or has problems within the warranty period you can contact our support team by using the Contact Us link. Technical support is limited to the scope of the product itself and not your entire machine.
Damage/Failure due to improper installation, improper usage, failure resulting from an issue with the machine the product is installed on, 3rd party products connected to our product, and/or modification of the product are not covered under warranty.
Question
Ruben Leija (verified owner) –
Will the glass bead thermistor from the ender 2 pro work on the heater block? Or so i need to change to the cartridge thermistor? Thanks.
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Tim Hoogland –
This V2 hotend requires you to use the included cartridge thermistor. You should not use the glass type with this hotend. You can re-use the stock heater cartridge from your creality hotend but the thermistor should be changed out.
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Gerald Messer –
would this and the 50w heater work with the CR10S
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Tim Hoogland –
Yes, it will and you would need the 12V version for the original CR-10S printer. Make sure you know the exact model because Creality re-uses the CR-10 name in multiple models so if you want to be 100% sure you can contact us with a picture of the machine and we can double-check what voltage it will need because there are “CR-10” models that run on 24V and 12V.
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nicer20 –
Will this work with my stock Ender 3 V2 as an upgrade? What changes/mods I need to make in order to use this? Also will this allow me to print higher temperature materials like Nylon, ABS and PETG? TIA.
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Tim Hoogland –
This is a universal printer part so it will work. But you will need to print or purchase a mount to put it on the printer. Our MultiMount facilitates mounting these kinds of hotends to your printer. Check it out here: https://www.th3dstudio.com/product/multimount-system-page/
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Emerson Corder (verified owner) –
Great quality hot end thats easy to assemble and get going. I opted for the 50w upgraded cartridge because im impatient and want my hotend to heat up faster. Pairs great with the multimount.
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lechatgraphique.fr –
Hello, can I mount this on a CR-10 V3?
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Tim Hoogland –
This will work but you will need to print an adapter to make it mount up. Here are a few community made designs that adapt the stock hotend setup to work with these kinds of hotends:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4651422
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4710365
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digiman005100 –
How would I mount this on a Sovol SV06?
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Tim Hoogland –
You’d need to either design a mount to replace the stock hotend setup with it or see if someone made one on one of the STL sites like Thinigiverse or Printables. This is a universal part so it’s not machine specific.
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astir-02-glamor –
Is it possible to select a custom bundle of this hotend without getting duplicate heaters and thermistors? I’m interested in the high flow upgrade + 50w heater, but I don’t want to get two sets of thermistors plus two sets of heaters and a v6 heatblock that I wouldn’t use.
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Tim Hoogland –
All the heaters and thermistors are the same in all those kits. Those all come prepackaged and the cost savings would not be that much if we offered them without the extra parts. Thermistors and heaters will eventally fail or even get damaged over time so its never a bad idea to have extras. 🙂
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