Reddit mentions of Genuine E3D V6 All-Metal HotEnd 1.75mm Universal w/ Bowden Full Kit 12V (V6-175-B)

Here's the link for the complete E3D upgrade. I have no idea where to get a stock replacement.

https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-E3D-All-Metal-Universal-V6-175-B/dp/B00NAK9L6Q/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1526851047&sr=8-3&keywords=e3d+hotend

Get one of these

E3D All-metal v6 HotEnd Full Kit 1.75mm Universal - Bowden Add-on Included - 800mm of PTFE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAK9L6Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_56M2AbS802RYM

E3D All-metal v6 HotEnd Full Kit 1.75mm Universal - Bowden Add-on Included - 800mm of PTFE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAK9L6Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_7lJDAbQQY5JZ9

Heres the link to amazon. I was under the impression it wasnt a clone.

Yeah I figured that. I realized that the thermistor is going to be almost impossible to remove because I can't raise the temperature of the heater block now, also means the nozzle is just entirely stuck now.

Ordered the E3D V6 Hotend on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Genuine-E3D-All-Metal-Universal-V6-175-B/dp/B00NAK9L6Q/ref=sr_1_8?crid=QOEQI276XQCA&keywords=e3d+v6&qid=1570912678&sprefix=e3d%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-8)

Genuine E3D V6 All-Metal HotEnd 1.75mm Universal w/ Bowden Full Kit 12V (V6-175-B) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NAK9L6Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_kbxLBbNSHWPWZ

Sold by e3d, their amazon has alot of e3d stuff too

I think other people have used the clones, but I have no experience with them myself. I'm not sure what makes the V6 so much better than the stock hot end; whether it's the internal nozzle geometry, or the heater cartridge, or the effectiveness of the heat brake or what. My only concern with the second one is that you'd have to reuse your stock heater, which may turn out to be fine, who knows. I can tell you 100% though that the stock thermistor will not fit in the hole for the original V6 design (which the clones all copied). The current V6 design uses a different screw-in thermistor fitting, that is much more robust. I had some issues with my thermistor leads shorting out through the fiberglass sleeves when I was running the original design. Getting a cheap clone is probably fine, just keep that in mind if you run into issues later on with the printer going into heater decouple mode and shutting the hot end off.

Yes, you need to retain the PCB that's mounted on the stock carriage. You can see how it's intended to the mounted in some of the photos on the thingiverse page. The V6 thermistor needs to be soldered to the leads for the little JST plug for the thermistor and plugged into that board. The stock fan is unused in the current design, so you leave that plug empty. I'm planning to eventually design a layer cooling duct that will use the stock fan in some fashion, but I haven't messed with printing PLA so I have not designed one yet.

I did just notice that the bare hot-end you linked is missing the tiny V6 style fan and duct, than fan is used in the bowden conversion to cool the heat sink above the heat brake, so I would advise against the bare hot end kit.

You're basically looking for something like this at the very least:

https://www.amazon.com/E3D-All-metal-HotEnd-1-75mm-Universal/dp/B00NAK9L6Q

There are probably clone versions that have similar hardware included

Do make sure that it is meant to be used with a bowden tube, and that it comes with the bowden tube and some fittings for each end, the non-bowden version of the V6 will not work with this mod