Problems loading filament
Hello,
I've been several months printing very little with the same filament. Today I wanted to change the color, so I unloaded the filament, but when inserting the new one (same material), following error occured and the filament didn't load with the auto-load option:
I tried to dissable the autoload mode and do it manually, but the same problem appeared.
Do you know what the problem could be? May I have to dismount all the header and adjust something?
Thank you very much.
RE: Problems loading filament
I have just tried again and now it doesn't make that horrible noise, but it continuous not loading the filament. I guess that I will have to disassembly the feeding mecanishm...
RE: Problems loading filament
What printer are we talking about here?
First try a different filament. If that still does not work there is a reasonable chance it is a blocked nozzle or feed tube, on the mk4 they are easy to remove and check. They are both easy checks to do before dismantling anything.
RE: Problems loading filament
Thank you. Yes, that was the problem, the feed tube to the hotend blocked. At first I just cleaned the entrance to the feeding tube, I thought that the new filament would be able to push the filament in the feeding tube towards the hotend, but it couldn't, so I had to open all again, and I could get the feeding tube out from the hotend (I didn't know it was so easy to extract it, hehe):
Now printing 🙂
RE: Problems loading filament
Glad to be of help