PLA filament not extruding well

frog0
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Re: PLA filament not extruding well

Post by frog0 » Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:41 am

Hi my printer was working fine for a few weeks when recently it stopped extruding any filament and I have disassembled the extruder and found that the plastic tube inside the nozzle had become clogged I removed the clogged filament and re assembled the extruder and it worked for the first few layers of a small print then stopped extruding again, the tube was blocked again. Is there any thing I could do to resolve this problem.

This is becoming extremely annoying now and i'm starting to regret buying this printer :evil:

Gingko
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Re: PLA filament not extruding well

Post by Gingko » Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:55 pm

What's your nozzle temperature? Increase 5-10 degree to have a try.

If the nozzle is too close to the hotbed, filament cannot come out smoothly, it might cost clogging easily.

frog0
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Re: PLA filament not extruding well

Post by frog0 » Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:42 pm

Hi thank you for that help I have a new tube for the hot end coming soon so I will try it with that

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