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These detailed instructions are great. Thank you for spending the time and sharing. I finished my v2 a couple weeks ago and have been printing along great with excellent quality with both ABS ad PLA. My Ninjaflex order arrived a couple days ago and after several attempts I have not been able to get ...

After disassembling, it turns out the head was not clogged. The failure does appear to be thermal runaway causing the peek to melt. The plastic took the least resistant path and went out the side. The hot end nozzle is completely usable.

Thanks for the responses. I agree, especially after disassembling the failed hot end none of the RTV was sticking to the metal. I ordered the E3D v6 hotend. It looks easier to assemble and has the screw in mount for the thermistor. Might want to update the Rostock Max V2 assembly instructions to ...

Great news, I finished assembling my Rostock V2 Max. However.... I was extruding my first ABS plastic, and everything seemed to be going fine... temp looked good at 225 deg, and plastic was extruding but there was a lot of smoke/steam coming off the plastic and it looked somewhat off colored and ...

Thanks. Good advice. After walking away from it I figured out a simple way to disassemble without stressing the parts. Your right it would have driven me crazy in the future.

Back on track. Thanks for your reply.

Mike

Hello everyone. I am about 8 to 10 hours into the build of my Rostock Max v2. I own a Thing-o-matic (from back in the day), and although my TOM is till working good, it needs a size and hot end upgrade. I really want to try a delta printer and the MAX v2 has everything I want - comes in a kit, good ...