The stock heat block on the Malyan (200?) / Monoprice Select Mini v2 3d printer is a special sort of awful. Out of the box I had weird issues. PID autotune would fail with a “Temperature too high!” error, and I threw various sets of PID values at it to no avail. What’d happen was every time the heater came on, a 5 degree C overshoot was virtually guaranteed, leading to lots of print stringing. It almost seemed like the temp would rise for about TEN SECONDS after the heater shut off. I suspected poor thermal coupling between the heater cartridge and heat block, and ordered a $10 E3D V6 clone off eBay intending to just use the block it came with.
I wound up doing just that.
The E3D silicone sock even almost fits it! Uh, not great though. I cut away one tab to make room for the thermistor retaining screw.
And now, on to the block of horrors. It had this execrable kapton / fiber covering that disintegrated when touched.
Bad picture but you can already see it looks rough, right? It gets worse.
There’s the heater bore. It doesn’t look like the hole was drilled as much as ice picked.
The grubscrew that locks the heater in place, and the questionable looking threads for the nozzle and heat break…
Seems to me the whole damn thing was a heat break 😉
Yeeeeah, so I haven’t fine tuned it with the new block in yet but just switching the heater on at the front panel and watching the temperature reading, it ramps up and just locks in with occasional undershoot of maybe 3C. Much better… Maybe the PID tune will even work now!