Massive Meltzone
Efficient Package
Boasting either a 42mm or 52mm long meltzone in the Air or Conduction configurations, the Chube Hotend is one of the most compact high-flow hotends on the market. Both versions are 60mm long before adding your chosen nozzle.
With all that meltzone, the Chube Hotend remains lightweight: Air weighs in at 69g, and the Conduction at 74g. Final weight will differ based upon chosen heater, thermistor, and nozzle.
Chube Compact, pictured in the middle, is physically smaller than Air and Conduction, but boasts an incredibly long meltzone. Before the nozzle, Compact has a relatively massive meltzone of 33mm. Once a standard V6 nozzle is installed, it comes in at about 39.5mm. This is the most meltzone per mm of length on the market!
Even with all that meltzone, Compact remains lightweight, at 50g bare. After the heater and thermistor are installed, it weighs in at around 63g, depending on your wire lengths, and nozzle choice.
Featuring Chalice Heatbreak Technology
The Chalice Heatbreak, used in all current Chube Hotends, uses aerospace materials combined with a hard, lubricious surface treatment to provide an unrivaled printing experience.
The thin, unibody break can withstand extreme temperatures and abrasive materials with ease while still preventing heat creep; keeping the surrounding components cold.
The cup design of Chalice provides an ideal seat for the bowden tube and smoothly guides filament into the generous meltzone.
Thoughtful Design in Innovative Package
We've taken the time to get things right and to be the change we want to see in hotend design.
Our design is both incredibly robust as well as thermally efficient, meaning both better performance as well as lower downtime.
Chube Hotends are excellent for high temperature printing, and ideal for abrasive materials. This, however, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t excel at standard materials such as PLA, ABS, or PETG!
Featuring a compact but serviceable design with integrated part-cooling shield, The Chube hotend is designed with users in mind from install to print.
Standard Chube Features
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Use the nozzles you already have and love
All Chubes are fully compatible with existing Reprap (V6) nozzles. No need to buy anything new, just install with a simple, single-handed process and away you go!
Chube Conduction & Chube Air are also compatible with volcano nozzles, but only if you swap out your stock V6 meltzone adapter (an internal, replaceable meltzone) with a Volcano adapter.
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Standard Heaters & Thermistors
Replaceable and reliable components are a core feature of the Chube Hotend. The Chube Air uses 6x20-22mm heaters, while Chube Conduction uses up to 47.5mm long heaters. Chube Compact, while technically compatible with up to 6×22mm heaters, comes preinstalled with 6×16mm heaters for best coverage.
You can utilize your existing library of trusted heaters instead of adding yet another spare part to your shelf.The same applies to temperature sensors - Chube adopts and embraces the common 3x15mm sensor cartridge in all configurations.
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Small Threads, BEGONE
Operators can rejoice that the Chube Hotend is assembled and mounted with M3 hardware - not M2.5, not M1.6. No small hardware is anywhere on the unit. Not only does the Chube Hotend have M3 hardware, but the flathead screws are T10 torx, which significantly reduces the likelihood of stripping.
Technical Specifications
