Hello,
I was printing last night and when removing the filament some of it got stuck in the extruder. It’s the one all the way on the right. I didn’t want to try too hard to get it out for fear of breaking something.
Please let me know what (if anything) I can do to help or prevent this from happening again.
I’ll fix it next time I’m in unless someone from @Team_3D_Fab grabs it first.
To help prevent it in the future, make sure the extruder is still hot when pulling your filament out.
Presuming you had no issues during printing, the hot end not being up to temp is the most likely reason.
I recently had a print fail (at home) with the extruder skipping. Hot end was reporting to temperature, attempting to unload, the extruder could not pull it out of the hot end. I eventually did manage to pull it out. I cut a few inches off and loaded it back up with no further extrusion problems. I was using clear PETG, and did not see any foreign objects in the pulled end. All I have guessed is that maybe the filament had a pellet of foreign plastic in the extruder feed, with a higher melt point that didn’t melt through the hot end.
Cool, I’ll make sure hotend is still at full temperature.
Thank you @skyspook, I’ll make sure it’s still at full temperature next time.
