Chube Compact

From a v5 in 2011 through multiple Rapido 2.0's in 2022-2025, I've always had hotend-specific issues crop up at some point. Sometimes it's an hour into my first print, sometimes it's 200 hours, but something inevitably happens. Screws fall out, heaters crack, all-in-one nozzle/heatbreak combo tubes bend and abrade.

This is the first hotend that hasn't given me a single issue in 500 hours of print time. All the fasteners are m3, they all thread into metal, and the stock shield is stainless steel and holds up to even the hardest of crashes, blobs, polymer vapor buildu, and cooling fans. The optional silicone sock is icing on the cake.

I really don't think I'll be buying anything else in the future, barring a complete technology change in the industry. Heck, even then my C2 will still be cranking out parts.

Honestly the best hotend I have used so far. No leaking issues, no heatcreep issues, it just works. My old rapido had horrible heatcreep with its heatsink and my mosquito would have its heatbreak back out and leak everytime I changed the nozzle. None of those issues here. I have printed upto 320C with cf filament and have had no problems. Might be more expensive than other hotends but the time and money I spent on replacement parts on other hotends easily makes this a worthwhile investment!