Prunebutt

I think that Linux has done huge strides in that regard.

Umm... what?

That's what a requirement could handle. My robot has all it's functionalities intact.

i can come up with the above attack so we can safely assume China can too - they likely have other ideas as well.

And why exactly are we to assume that China has an interest to do so? Have we arrived in full-on cold war rhetoric by now? 🙄

Also: how can the evil Xi Xingping (/s) do an assault on our infrastrugture if we don't allow the device to phone home? If I can prevent my robot-vacuum to connect to the producer's servers, why shouldn't our infrastructure be able to do so?

Why ban the devices entirely, then and not introduce a legal requirement to be able to run the devices entirely on your own network?

The new heating block is in transit. I'll do some checks.

Nah, don't worry about it. You used the correct term, which happens to have an amiguous name (you'd translate the German term to "thread-cutting drill").

Thanks for the heads up. Is it very unadvisable to leave the PLA in the threading if nozzle and heatbreak have proper contact?

Sorry, not an english native speaker, so I didn't know what a tap was. Good thing that context made me not google myself to death with that non-SEO friendly term (it's the drill thing that cuts threads inno holes).

A new heating block is a bit cheaper and I got no use for a tap, so I just ordered a new one. Maybe I give the torching method a try, too before it arrives.

Anywho: I understand the hotend way better now. I guess the 4,50€ for a new heating block is worth it. (:

and you may need to run a tap through the heater block to clean the threads

I've cleaned the outside, but I don't know what you mead by that. Could you explain how I fix the threading?

It is bare metal to metal surface contact.

That's what I meant with "seal". 😅

Thanks for the advice. Gonna implement it.