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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?

an engraver.

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

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

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)

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

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

I am glad that you liked the dot idea.

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.

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!

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

Said Blackadder to Baldrick.