Printer chewed up filament at the bowden gears again.
My print stopped mid-way, and when I checked on it, I found that the filament was chewed up and wedged around the bowden gears, as in the picture below.
This is now the second time that this has happened. The first time, I was using wood-infused PLA, and it is a bit brittle, so I chalked it up to that. This time, however, I was using Prusa Azure Blue PLA, so I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my setup that leads to it doing this.
It was quite warm when it happened this time--40/101F (I don't remember how hot it was the first time)--and I see things about thermal creep, so I'm wondering if this is that. There were no errors shown on the display or anywhere that I could find.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the matter!
Now I'm off to disassemble the printer, as I cannot readily get the filament out of either end.
RE: Printer chewed up filament at the bowden gears again.
I had something similar happen with my first use of Flex 98A and I adjusted the bowden gear so that it just caught the filament and the problem went away, I have not had to adjust for any other materials that I have used, don't know if this your problem, just providing some input.
RE: Printer chewed up filament at the bowden gears again.
My print stopped mid-way, and when I checked on it, I found that the filament was chewed up and wedged around the bowden gears, as in the picture below.
This is now the second time that this has happened. The first time, I was using wood-infused PLA, and it is a bit brittle, so I chalked it up to that. This time, however, I was using Prusa Azure Blue PLA, so I'm wondering if there is something wrong with my setup that leads to it doing this.
It was quite warm when it happened this time--40/101F (I don't remember how hot it was the first time)--and I see things about thermal creep, so I'm wondering if this is that. There were no errors shown on the display or anywhere that I could find.
I'd appreciate any thoughts on the matter!
Now I'm off to disassemble the printer, as I cannot readily get the filament out of either end.
Before you disassemble the hotend, I would try to heat it up to 280 degrees C., remove the nozzle and try to remove the stuck filament with a 1.5mm wire or similar ( https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B07R6Y2LKS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ).
When printing PLA you should make sure that the ambient temperature is not above 35 degrees C. and that the extruder motor does not get too warm - if necessary, actively cool it down.
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RE: Printer chewed up filament at the bowden gears again.
This is the filament that was above the gears:
This is the filament that I recovered from the PTFE tube after I pulled it out of the top of the hot end. It appears that it got stuck and then the feed from above bent it, but since I poked at it with a needle, etc, that's not 100% certain.
The filament was capped at the top of the PTFE tube: Filament filled the cup. So this shows where the bottom of the filament was with respect to the tube, or at least pretty close.
RE: Printer chewed up filament at the bowden gears again.
@karl-herbert
Thanks!
I heated it up, but it didn't come out, so I had to disassemble and pull the PTFE and filament out the top