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Hello all,

I have printed short <1 hours runs and longers 10+ hours runs with great success due to the help of this community. Recently, after a few hours of printing, the filament get stuck and the system fails and stop. At this point, I have concluded that the filament get stuck and not extruding anything.

When I retracted it, cut a new end on a fresh piece of filament and feed it back in... presto it extrudes fine.
I haven't open up the assembly to clean it out, but it prints short (less than 2 hours) runs fine, so I don't think there is anything stuck in it...
Maybe the roll has some tight spots where it is hard to pull the filament? I am getting to the end of the roll... but when I pull the filament to test, it seems to pull without much trouble...

Some specs I'm using
I am using ABS running at 240 degrees in the software
24V 0.5mm extruder head

thanks,

Mike

could have just been a bulge in the filament or the dia got too high to pass through the extruder......it happens

Amphagory wrote:Hello all,

I have printed short <1 hours runs and longers 10+ hours runs with great success due to the help of this community. Recently, after a few hours of printing, the filament get stuck and the system fails and stop. At this point, I have concluded that the filament get stuck and not extruding anything.

When I retracted it, cut a new end on a fresh piece of filament and feed it back in... presto it extrudes fine.
I haven't open up the assembly to clean it out, but it prints short (less than 2 hours) runs fine, so I don't think there is anything stuck in it...
Maybe the roll has some tight spots where it is hard to pull the filament? I am getting to the end of the roll... but when I pull the filament to test, it seems to pull without much trouble...

Some specs I'm using
I am using ABS running at 240 degrees in the software
24V 0.5mm extruder head

thanks,

Mike

Who's plastic?

Makergear... no 3rd party filament...

Have you been using ABS only? I used to get a lot of jams on the V3 (they stopped happening on the V3b in retrospect...) switching between ABS and PLA. The process of switching would create a hard goo in the nozzle that solidified like cement and plugged it up something fierce.

Hi,

Only been using ABS on the V3B extruder. I'm going to clean the nozzle out tonight... I heard maybe acetone bath, but more so a blow torch will remove clogs...

insta wrote:Have you been using ABS only? I used to get a lot of jams on the V3 (they stopped happening on the V3b in retrospect...) switching between ABS and PLA. The process of switching would create a hard goo in the nozzle that solidified like cement and plugged it up something fierce.

No torch. If only abs has been in it then soak for a few hours or overnight in acetone. Soak the nizzle and brass tube. Thats the area that will get tight.

jimc wrote:No torch. If only abs has been in it then soak for a few hours or overnight in acetone. Soak the nizzle and brass tube. Thats the area that will get tight.

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