I've designed a new toolhead a while ago and the hotend, a Phaetus Rapido UHF v2, is mounted using a small aluminum bracket meant for an E3D hotend.

The bracket is mounted to the toolhead using brass insert nuts that were pressed into the plastic using a soldering iron.

The picture is the side view of the toolhead. It's currently missing the bottom half.

The hotend ends up not entirety vertical.

How bad is this? Ideally it's perfectly vertical but is it worth the effort of straightening this out?

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

You’re going to run into issues with this. Going one direction the material is going to be overly “compressed” and the other it will be beaded up on top of the last layer.

Other things like ironing will be impossible, but honestly the first issue is the worst so I’d just redo it.

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