Comment on Does the filament path of ruby nozzles degrade + is DUROZZLE any good?
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
As much as i know how much a diamond back nozzle costs. If you print alot of abrasives its worth it, for context. Diamond back nozzles are like $100+ But they use PCD its manmade diamonds. And the most common instrustrial use for PCD is extruding wire.
Like electrical wire, they use PCD to strip the metal part of the wire for making wire. They easily have 4 months of life in Constant use.
Which when you factor its copper or aluminum its pretty wild.
So plastic is going to be 1000x that.
Cort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ruby isn’t quite as hard as diamond, but it’s close. Technically it’s just red sapphire, and they’ve been manufacturing sapphire for a while to use as lens protectors for phone cameras. Am I missing something?
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The precision of PCD is alot higher because its man made, its also harder than natural diamonds.