Can’t load filament on my OG Mk2
Hi collective wisdom, apologies if this has been asked (searching says no…)
I was gifted a i3 Mk 2 a few years back and it was always a little… finicky about loading filament (lots of clicking, pull it out, heat up, use acupuncture needle, try again, pray(!), repeat, finally success) and I hadn’t used it in a while. I got it out of storage, recalibrated it and it was working fine.
About to print the last part of a long job and wanted to change filament (I’d already done so for this job) and it just won’t load. Heating, clearing with the needle, no luck, just continuous ‘click of doom’.
I tried to disassemble the hot end but my pictures don’t match anything online and I got nervous about going any further.
what are my options? Is it time to bite the bullet, be grateful for a couple of years of ‘free’ printing and buy a mk3? Or is there anything else I can try?
Hopefully the collective wisdom has a good fix, but I suspect I’m about to spend money…
thanks in advance!