Adventurer 3 issue with think strands
I have only had the machine a week, but I fell in love right away! lol! I've done some great prints then all of a sudden on day i wake up to half a print. ok probably nozzle is clogged, this has happened before, i unclog if with the tool and even use some filament to do a cold pull for good measure. I load filament and notice that when the filament comes out of the nozzle is it really thin. as it comes out there are moments or times where it bunches up and collects as you can see in the pictures. I tried to print the latter A for my kid, its a big block A and I have printed it out a couple of times now. This time however its only printing like a very think layer and it looks like it gets thicker and thinner as it goes. Was wondering if anyone had any insight into what the issue could be? my only guess was the nozzle, the motor seems to be pulling or pushing the filament properly ,so I'm at a loss.
EDIT: i did the calibration again and i was a little surprised to find that i had to move the nozzle up a little to make it totally feel comfortable. i tried to print again and... NOTHING! i did a cold pull again, but this time i cooled the nozzle and pushed a pin through the other side the external size and ended up taking a bit of gunk from there too. cleared the nozzle a THIRD time, BUT this time i felt something different, when i pushed the filament in i felt that the filament was flwing better through the nozzle and i loaded filament and now its printing like normal! HORAAYYY! thanks for your insight ppl! i will probably be back to pick your brains in the next few days when something inevitably fucks up again! :)
Posted Oct 18, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC · edited
It looks like the nozzle is to close to the bed or a blocked nozzle. (Sorry i see you mentioned you unclogged it already)
thanks for the reply, yea i unclogged it but I am also open to the idea that maybe I dont know how to unglog it properly. This is what I do: I heat the nozzle to 220C then use the pick to push the gunk through, then i put in a piece of filament and push it through till i can see it come out, then i bring the nozzle temp down to 80C then i pull the filament out and it usually grabs ANY little bit of crud that's in there.
if the nozzle was too close to the bed I feel like you wouldnt see such a uniform pattern to the thinness. im going to run recolibration again, BUTTT i feel in my GUT that it has something to do with the nozzle or the feeder thingy
Alright, I don’t know what else i could be sorry, hope someone will answer it 🙂
Hey if you're still having trouble, I am pretty sure it's a calibration issue. The auto calibration isn't the greatest and sometimes takes a couple tries to get it right
thanks for the heads up, i did the calibration again and i was a little surprised to find that i had to move the nozzle up a little to make it totally feel comfortable. i tried to print again and... NOTHING! i did a cold pull again, but this time i cooled the nozzle and pushed a pin through the other side the external size and ended up taking a bit of gunk from there too. cleared the nozzle a THIRD time, BUT this time i felt something different, when i pushed the filament in i felt that the filament was flwing better through the nozzle and i loaded filament and now its printing like normal! HORAAYYY! thanks for your insight ppl! i will probably be back to pick your brains in the next few days when something inevitably fucks up again! :)
Hey glad you got it sorted out. My next suggestion would have been disassembling the extruder housing to make sure it was completely clear. Glad you got it!