the extruder hiccup
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2020 3:04 am
hi, i've got a Geeetech Prusa I3 Pro B,
now, when i bought it and mount it, (a couple of weeks ago) it was all ok, i printed without problems with PLA filament.
Then the ABS filament arrived, bringing a lot of problems with him...
The extruder started to make a clicking noise, I found out that the extruder piece, was damaged, The clicking noise was the stepper motor that coud not rotate.
Thinking that the problem was the ABS, i put the PLA back swearing not to use ABS ever again. (even because the plate took a while to heat up and was boring) the clicking continued, but when I pushed the filament or press the release buttom, the filament extruded fine, so I just put a rubber band to keep the release button pressed.
Then I printed a new piece, and replace the broken one. For half print was fine, then I put the rubber band back.
Now I update the rubber band with some cable ties There were a couple of soved problems i didn't mention, like the distance between the nozzle and the plate, and the jammed z axes, but now they're fine...
Now, my problem with is that the printer can not extrude properly, I mean, I launch the print, it make a couple of loops extruding and not extruding, and then it start to print the model, but sometimes it fail to extrude some parts, it does it randomly: sometimes is the filling, sometimes is the perimeter, the lack of a recognizable patterns is frustrating.
What can I do about it?
I already:
• cleaned the nozzle and tried to extrude (and when i do it manually from the repetier's print panel works fine...)
• calibrated the hot plate with the A4 thing
Please helpme
thanks for reading and for the help
now, when i bought it and mount it, (a couple of weeks ago) it was all ok, i printed without problems with PLA filament.
Then the ABS filament arrived, bringing a lot of problems with him...
The extruder started to make a clicking noise, I found out that the extruder piece, was damaged, The clicking noise was the stepper motor that coud not rotate.
Thinking that the problem was the ABS, i put the PLA back swearing not to use ABS ever again. (even because the plate took a while to heat up and was boring) the clicking continued, but when I pushed the filament or press the release buttom, the filament extruded fine, so I just put a rubber band to keep the release button pressed.
Then I printed a new piece, and replace the broken one. For half print was fine, then I put the rubber band back.
Now I update the rubber band with some cable ties There were a couple of soved problems i didn't mention, like the distance between the nozzle and the plate, and the jammed z axes, but now they're fine...
Now, my problem with is that the printer can not extrude properly, I mean, I launch the print, it make a couple of loops extruding and not extruding, and then it start to print the model, but sometimes it fail to extrude some parts, it does it randomly: sometimes is the filling, sometimes is the perimeter, the lack of a recognizable patterns is frustrating.
What can I do about it?
I already:
• cleaned the nozzle and tried to extrude (and when i do it manually from the repetier's print panel works fine...)
• calibrated the hot plate with the A4 thing
Please helpme
thanks for reading and for the help