This modular hotend seriously impressed me! (Slice Engineering Copperhead Review)

The Slice Engineering Copperhead is a really good, but crazy expensive hotend. But you're doing it wrong if you're paying for the full set of components to make use of its advantages - here's why!

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[andreanizzola]

Around minute 9 when the little part kept rolling off the desk until you put it straight, IDK why but I found it very funny.

[dmandn]

I recommend thinly applying the paste to the thread on the nozzle and heatbreak before inserting into the heat block and don't apply to the heat block. I also avoid getting it close to the end of the threads so it doesn't squeeze into the gap as tightening them up.
At leas tthis is the trick I use with the Mosquito.

[adama]

They really need to make a water cooled motor and heat break version. With a rating of 450C you can get into some great engineering plastics. Pull the other motors and electronics outside of the heated chamber and pump a lot of heat inside and you could print in ultem or even PEEK.

[macgyver]

This review seems a little off to me. You're comparing what I would recommend as the minimum for a hotend, A genuine V6, to what is advertised as a high end hotend. I would prefer to see it on more equal footing. Copper V6, titanium heatbreak, and Nozzle X. As you stated the price still favors E3d, but what about quality and performance when they are one more equal footing?

[VectorRoll]

I purchased a copperhead for my home built coreXY & I personally love it. I purchased the full basic kit groove mount kit. The only things I did not purchase was the fan. Since I put it together and pid tuned it I have not had to mess with it. I have not even had to clean filament off the nozzle. Maybe I have just been lucky with it so far and am glad if so. Only time will tell if it was truly worth it. I have already gone through a couple V6 hotends. If this copperhead last long enough then it definitely would have been worth it.

I will say one annoying thing about it though. The thermal paste is a bit messy. For anyone that uses their thermal paste be mindful that in the tip of the syringe for it the paste will dry up and harden. Tale a needle and make sure to clear it out before you put any pressure bin trying to squeeze some out. If you don't that harder plug of the paste will pop out and the paste will ooze out quite fast. I had mine do that and it got all over the place. 🥴

[joshsekel]

In my experience (with full copperhead) the flow rate rivals my volcano but has more control when changing temps (less overshoot).
Still waiting on flows rates directly from slice on copperhead, I bet it’s close to mosquito.
Also for the idex folks, with full copperhead, you can set height of each nozzle very easily and accurately.

[squirrelrobotics]

This video basically sums up my thoughts on all of the Slice Engineering products, they are definitely not for everyone, but they really shine in their specific applications.

[Chad.The.Flornadian]

Great impartial, unbiased review. Love how you covered all the various aspects of the hotend. Pleasure to watch. Can't wait for the next video.

[fail_fast]

Tom, I appreciate you but i think you need to do a part 2 video. This video only compares the two hotends from the perspective of someone who only wants to print pretty chachkies in pla. While this is most of your viewers, I don't think it's the intended market for this hotend. I think this hotend is more geared toward being a budget alternative to the high temp/ engineering grade plastics hotends. So, How do the two hotends compare at high temps? What does the difference in heatsink Temps look like at elevated temp? Can you get away with not using a fan to cool the heatsink?

P. S. While I agree initial hardness is important when evaluating nozzles, it's equally as important to understand how the hardness will change as the nozzles temper over time, this becomes even more important when printing high temp filled plastics.

[cdteurosport]

I’ve had that heat break in my printed solid cart for weeks now. I had to go ahead and finish my order as soon as I saw you put this out.

[henrymach]

You can almost buy an entire Ender 3 for the price of this thing

[vedranlatin]

@Tom You should try swaping just the heatbreak, just the nozzle and all stock E3D with a nitride-boron heat paste. Also, but slightly harder to do, measure the nozzle and block temperature with external termocouple while extruding a set amount of material. It's not impossibly the difference in performance you're seeing is actually because copperhead simply gets to a higher temperature from secondary effects, say more loosely coupled termistor.

[master-gbig]

Great review Thomas, I'm glad I can count on you for the true redeeming value of content because you know what really matters. That hot end is totally trick, and I love the interchangeability. Thank you, " these are things I need to know right now. "You are on the job."

[UNVIRUSLETALE]

You should also take a look at trianglelab dragon, I've used it for almost 6 months and it's really good

[DC-oxrc]

If you want to measure the temperature of a piece of aluminum, don't use a thermal camera if you don't adjust the emissivity for the material

[sagichnicht]

Indeed, hardened steel is certainly not equal to Brass. The NozzleX sounds fairly similar to that coated hardened steel nozzle and I needed to heat it up a bit for similar performance as with a brass nozzle.

[jbergene]

The magic is the heatbreak. Install it on a V6 and u get the same perf. Remember to get V6 copper to go over 300c

[BLBlackDragon]

While it is nice to see companies like E3D making good parts that are priced for the home user, it's definitely time to see companies making high-end parts for more commercial applications, where there is more budget available. I think Slice will successfully push this envelope, and I can't wait to see what they do next.

[pjak]

Brass is abt 2x steel in thermal conductivity... not equal

[alinioanmoroi]

I've used for the past 5 months the bimetal heatbreak from trianglelabs witch got for around 15 euro, and must say that is an awsome uptade for my original e3d v6, i used titan heatbreak before that and only print petg and i had some clogs with the titan heatbreak..with the bimetal one never had a problem!