Extruder working fine but wont dispense during print
Hey, i have a kit i3 mk2 and it has worked fine for about a year and a half now, but yesterday about a third of the way through a print it just stopped extruding. I ran through the basics, and the extruder works when manually told, but during a print is just dribbles. I took the hot end apart for cleaning and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong.
So if the extruder works, the motors work, the extruder will dispense when manually told to do so, and no settings have been changed from my last successful print, what could be going wrong?
Re: Extruder working fine but wont dispense during print
You may need to change your nozzle, replace PTFE, clean the drive pulley, or you may get away with a cold-pull or two.
Peter
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Re: Extruder working fine but wont dispense during print
Hey, i have a kit i3 mk2 and it has worked fine for about a year and a half now, but yesterday about a third of the way through a print it just stopped extruding. I ran through the basics, and the extruder works when manually told, but during a print is just dribbles. I took the hot end apart for cleaning and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong.
So if the extruder works, the motors work, the extruder will dispense when manually told to do so, and no settings have been changed from my last successful print, what could be going wrong?
Richard, Did you ever figure out what caused this? My MK3 was working fine. I started a new print and before bedtime the gears that move the filament started clicking.