When I print with my just over 1 day old Monoprice 3D Mini, the filament will click and move back. I have tried a 190, 195, 210, and 220 degrees when printing with PLA, which is the only thing I have printed with so far.
Edit: It’s a clog, nothing comes out of the nozzle anymore
Hi the chances are the nozzle is blocked, don’t worry it often happens to me and is not hard to fix. All you need to do is disassemble the extruder and try etheir with a needle or buy heating it and pulling out the filament to try get the dirt blocking the nozzle to come out. If you get stuck any where just try fined a YouTube video to help you.
I agree, it sounds like a blockage of some sort. Sometimes, depending on the filament, it may also get off track and feed where it should not be feeding. I’ve generally only had this happen with ninjaflex type materials though. You can always do an atomic pull, but the filament doesn’t sound like it’s getting down far enough for that. Can you manually feed any filament? Is anything coming out of the nozzle, leakage or otherwise? Lastly, what was the last thing printed and did you load/unload any filament after it?
Yeah so I was going to edit saying I knew it was a clog, and edit it again saying NOTHING comes out of the nozzle anymore, but the mods needed to verify this post or something. I guess I’ll have to disassemble it. Before, the filament was curling in on itself, but I didn’t know that was a clog at the time. I did swap out the filament once, pla to pla, and that may have caused the problem. The last successful print I did was a hollow cube with no top and a raft support.
I experienced the same thing. I talked about it in a previous post here: Talk Manufacturing | Hubs 80
I think the problem is that little plastic tube in the extruder head that helps guide the filament through. It is just a little too big which allows the filament to coil inside.
I tried writing a blog with pictures describing what I found and how I fixed it. It seems like a lot of people are having this problem.
