Creality Official Spider Hotend 3.0 All Metal High Temperature and High Flow Hotend Pro for 3D Printer - Upgrade Kit for Ender 3, Ender 3 Pro, Ender 3 V2, Ender 5, Ender 5 Pro

Not cheap, but.....I've been having problems printer with the standard hotend. PLA kept on clogging in the hotend, and I couldn't get a consistent print. (tried changing nozzle, Bowden tube and changing to an bi-metal heat break. none solved the problem)This arrived this morning, removed the hotend from my Ender 3 pro, and put this in place. As I used the new thermister, I ran a PID hotend calibration at 200C. Then took a little time to recalibrate the offset for my BLTouch, got it to 0.2mm using a feeler gauge, then ran a print using the same settings as I'd been failing with. Straight away, the clogging issue I was having is solved. The print has is printing at 40mm/s without any issues. This is now making me wonder if I can ramp up the default speed using this new hotend. It looks like I'll also be able to easily use this for lots of high temp filaments too, though I tend to print 99% of my stuff using PLA, might be able to use something more durable for outdoor prints.

Creality does it again. Send something out in to the market before they finish the R&D. Thermistor went and can't be replaced so nice bit of kit headed for bin and only a couple of months old. Like I said a nice bit of kit. High quality, fast smooth application of filament. Was genuinely upset when I found out that it can't be repaired as was so impressed by it. Bitter sweet tale without a happy ending. Creality have since changed the thermistor and heating bar and on the new model they can now be replaced.An expensive lesson for someone who is without an income ( currently recieving treatment for cancer and can't work). Well done Creality.🤦🤦🤦

I used this to replace the stock hot end on a Voxlab Aquila 3D printer which is a V2 clone after a bad clogged hot end ruined the original one.This was easy to fit, I used the new thermistor and heating element and they worked perfectlyI haven’t tried pushing the speed up or anything other than PLA, both of these things I’ll definitely be attempting very soon

Brilliant product. Totally changed my Ender 3 pro for the better, my prints are so much better and at much higher speeds. The only down fall is that you CANT buy extra nozzles separately. These nozzles are much longer than standard. Almost 5/5 but this drawback is a big one...

Quality made very well designed

Unfortunately, mine arrived defective. When heating to 210° for PLA it heated very quickly to 140° but then failed to heat further causing the printer to halt.I tried a lot of fixes in the firmware and even went so far as to disable the safety features temporarily but still no luck. I think it may have been a dodgy thermistor which unfortunately cannot be removed like other hot ends.Defects happen but even without that, this hotend does have problems. For starters you are restricted to a specific type of nozzle only sold by creality, making it almost useless if you work with specialized filaments. The nozzles themselves are also expensive.There are some positives though, it does heat a lot faster and it does look very nice when installed. If you can live with a set nozzle size it might be worth purchasing for the speed gains.

As yet I have only used it on PLA and it prints perfectly on an Aquila c2 with direct drive extruder.I will report back when I've used it on filiments with a higher melting point --PET G. TPU etc.Reporting back........,I have used it with pet G and TPU,it printed superbly.I greatly recommend this hotend.

Only month old and Boden tube holder failed due to going brittle then about melting throwing out filament everywhere and almost setting fire damaging the thermistor wiring and covering the hotend in filament and unable to source a replacement attempted to contact creality on multiple platforms and nothing AVOID!!!