Nozzle identification

[Captain Starfish]

Every day's a school day, and today's lesson is:

If you tell the slicer you have a 0.5mm nozzle and install a 0.35mm nozzle:

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Well, duh, that's pretty obvious. Except it isn't really, is it? What nozzle did I leave installed in there last time I printed? I can extrude a dribble and measure it with a mic, I can check with a 0.35 or 0.5mm drill bit and see which one doesn't fit. Both of these take a little time.

So has anyone come up with a foolproof visual ID scheme for nozzle sizes?

[Mac The Knife]

an engraver.

[Captain Starfish]

I need to put a Dremel on my RMax, then?

[Mac The Knife]

That sounds like trouble in the making. Make sure you post videos of its first cuts.

[Eaglezsoar]

You can engrave small dots on the side of the nozzles and the number of dots identify the size of the nozzles.
This is what E3D does with their version 6 nozzles and works great. This can be done by hand with a dremel tool
and you need to create a small chart that shows the nozzle size and how many dots it has. If you use the binary coded
decimal system 3 dots can identify 8 different nozzles. (no dots to 3 dots)

[Captain Starfish]

Nice. I actually scratched three or five scratches on one face of the hex nut today, but this is neat.

I was also thinking about approaching a local exhaust place and asking for a baby pot of different colour exhaust paints for colour coding, but all of a sudden that seems unnecessarily complicated

Cheers

[Max]

I use a center punch, 3 dots, .35mm, 5 dots .5mm

[Eaglezsoar]

I am glad that you liked the dot idea.

[enggmaug]

I did engrave each and every of my nozzles on the sides of the hex nut : one digit per side : ".25", ".30", ".35", ".40", ".50" and ".60".

So the size is written twice on every nozzle.

This works well, but engraving is just very superficial, and it gets a bit harder to read when the nozzle is used and covered with burnt plastic.

[Captain Starfish]

Hah - thanks to your inspiration, everyone, I just came up with a cunning plan:

One dot.

Depending on which face gets the dot, I have up to six different sizes.

Easy and obvious!

[teoman]

Hah - thanks to your inspiration, everyone, I just came up with a cunning plan:!

Said Blackadder to Baldrick.