Hotend for Tevo Tarantula

[devout kernel]

Hello, I may get a second-hand Tevo Tarantula with a broken hotend. I saw there are many different types of hotends, such as Mk8, V6, Volcano, Chimera, E3D etc. My questions are:

1. What hotend should I buy for the printer (I don't know what hotend there is now and I can't provide a photo)?
2. What do these different types mean, can a hotend be V6 and Chimera at the same time (do hotends fall into multiple groups)?
3. Are they interchangeable? Can I replace an Mk8 hotend with Volcano?
   Thanks in advance

[clever sage]

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[vagrant seal]

https://all3dp.com/1/tevo-tarantula-review-a-3d-printing-fixer-upper/

It's got an... odd hotend mount. Pretty outdated tech if you ask me. You'd be better off with an Ender 3 V2 or something.

[devout kernel]

ok but I just want to try 3D printing

it’d be a waste to buy an Ender 3 and let it sit in a box if I don’t like it

[vagrant seal]

But you also might end up having problems with a messy unstable printer like this one, get frustrated, and give up...

[vagrant seal]

To answer your questions, 1. Not sure which hotend you may want to buy until I research the tarantula a bit more, 2. It depends on what you are asking; typically a v6 is a v6, and a Chimera is a dual-headed mk8-ish hotend; 3. Yes and no. An E3D V6 has a different mounting system from the standard mk8, but with an adapter can be bolted to an mk8 mounting plate.