Jan Schiefer

While #3dprinting a big job on my #prusaprinter MK3s, I ran out of filament. Out of curiosity, I decided to watch it fail, to see how that was handled. It detected the end of filament, stopped, and asked me to pull out the remaining piece of filament. Ummm, what remaining piece? It's inside the print head somewhere. That didn't go so well....

Glad I built this from a kit, so I am not afraid to drop the hotend tomorrow and see what is going on.

Dec 27, 2022 at 9:20amWeb
Show threadJan SchieferDec 29, 2022
Well, that wasn't too bad! Piece of filament stuck in the PTFE tube in the hotend. Partially disassembled the extruder, heated the nozzle, yanked it out, put everything back together, ran xyz calibration, first layer calibration and selftest, and all is well now. Back to regular #3dprinting!
Show thread𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐝 Dec 27, 2022
@janschiefer you cant just put in more filament? and let the new push the old?
Show threadJan SchieferDec 27, 2022
@wbradmoore Tried that, both at normal temperature and a little hotter. It will grab the new filament, but fail to push it through.