I am getting an h2d and I am seriously considering it as a candidate for upgrades down the road that would allow peek to run so I just wanted to know the experience people have had with their x1’s and how the process went for the 500c hotend, what gcode/firmware mods need to be made to allow for an aftermarket hotend to work past 300c. I love my x1 but I have been reluctant to tinker with it since its my only production printer but now with an h2d in the cards this month I will always have a second machine to tinker with and not care about any surprise orders. So glad I waited for the h2d, almost got a second x1.
I have seen videos of peek being printed on the x1 terribly because layer adhesion is being affected by low chamber temps but that was over a year ago so yeah just wondering. I seek the tinkers knowledge.
as for my applications of peek, every now and then I need a part that can be in a car engine bay or maintain better rigidity inside something colored black baking under the sun. those kinds of things. so I do have a use case but the printers are bloody expensive, like I may as well just buy a CNC mill at that point because a cnc would actually make back its value in a few months in my shop.