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not extruding anything
davidtriune
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No filament gets through the nozzle.
I tried exchanging nozzles, setting the temperature to max, changing filaments.
If I unscrew the nozzle and try to extrude, it should come out like normal right? well nothing pushes through, so is there a clog somehwere up there then?
I tried following directions from https://www.lulzbot.com/unclogging-your-hot-end . I load filament, push for a while and unload, but it doesn't pull any debris out, nor get the nozzle-shape that the picture shows .
Would I have to open up the hot end? The screws seem to be screw glued, so not sure if I should be doing this.
edit: following the wiki page on how to open the extruder. Thanks.
I tried exchanging nozzles, setting the temperature to max, changing filaments.
If I unscrew the nozzle and try to extrude, it should come out like normal right? well nothing pushes through, so is there a clog somehwere up there then?
I tried following directions from https://www.lulzbot.com/unclogging-your-hot-end . I load filament, push for a while and unload, but it doesn't pull any debris out, nor get the nozzle-shape that the picture shows .
Would I have to open up the hot end? The screws seem to be screw glued, so not sure if I should be doing this.
edit: following the wiki page on how to open the extruder. Thanks.
Post edited by davidtriune on
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I did the same thing, and I knew how weak it was, but my heatbreak/throat got stuck in the heater block and I snapped the heatbreak... one of those moments when you wish life had ctrl-z enabled in firmware...
lots of ideas here:
https://www.thingiverse.com/samuelpinches/collections/jgaurora-a5-a3s-parts
I imagine davidtriune's problem now having the broken heatbreak residue stuck in the x-carriage or "cool" section of the printhead. There are tools for extracting screws available in hardware stores which look a bit like a left threaded screw. You can feed it into a (drilled) hole of a stuck piece of e.g. a screw and turn it out counterclockwise.
Regarding heatbreak and heater block Amazon offers different sets of these, I don't know how fast you can receive shipments from aliexpress ... for me it takes weeks to Europe
I ordered some spare throats, heat blocks and nozzles at Amazon ... didn't want to wait that long like for Aliexpress
https://www.amazon.de/Extruder-Druckk%C3%B6pfe-Aluminium-MakerBot-3D-Drucker/dp/B079L6616D
Have success in repairing it!
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