heat it up and wipe the bulk off with a rag. a good tool to have is a small wire brush. avail in the tool section from home depot near the welding stuff. they have small wood handled soft stainless bristle ones. heat the nozzle then wire brush it a little to clean off excess and burnt on bits. Ah, ...

Dale, Thank you for the writeup. I'll be sure to try exactly that once my frustration cools off a little. I'm pretty annoyed at this thing right now. Any good tips on how to clean excess plastic off the extruder nozzle? The remnant plastic grabs the filament stream and drags the model with it. :oops:

Thanks! I'll give it a whirl!!

I'm using Slic3r to generate the G-Code. I can post up the .ini file if necessary. But essentially, the "lower" half of anything I try to print comes out sloppy, but the second half looks nearly perfect. Any idea what could cause such a phenomenon? Sorry for the crappy pictures, but the iPhone autof...