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BambuLab Apollo model updated for Phaetus Conch hotend
🕑 Added 2024-11-11 22:33:35 +0000 UTCApollo shop page
The filament path alignment wasn't perfect on my old mount, but worked fine on stock Bambu, there is a very slight difference on the Pheatus Conch, and was very obvious, so this has a tiny amount of flexibility to align the hole perfectly (0.4mm in CAD, but likely 0.2mm printed), will work with both stock bambu and conch.
the mount is printed upside down for a perfect ptfe tube hole
Also added a square nut version, as the new hex nut tends to spin in there.
M3 thin square nuts: Amazon - Aliexpress
Also known as DIN 562 (thin), and other is DIN 557 (thick), both will work here if you have some on hand
The old main body is fine, but there was a spot with no gap, so the main body is tweaked to give it a bit more of a tolerance gap between the hotend mount and the main body, which you can get in the new zip dated 2024-11-11 Apollo shop page
Regarding the Phaetus Conch hotend, it's quite nice and much better performance than Bambulab (I was getting about 16mm^3 with PLA), my own test I got (this is a 0.4mm nozzle):
27mm^3/s with PLA at 220C (tested with cheap creality PLA that came with the printer)
29mm^3/s with PLA at 230C
33mm^3/s with PLA at 250C (not really a normal PLA temp)
30mm^3/s with PETG at 245C (elegoo rapid PETG black, which for the price I like as much as Polymaker at almost half the price)
32mm^3/s with PETG at 260C (upper recommended temp on the filament box)
The heater was not included, so this is using the same 48W heater as Bambu surprisingly. Not sure what sorcery is going on. Going to retest stock Bambu someday to compare one of these days.
