Topic: e3d lite6 ptfe shift
First off, I love this hotend. Installed on my i3 many months ago and saw better quality prints, improved flow, and no more PLA clogging/motor skips. It's been a champ, the past 1.5 months it has been running non-stop!
Which leads to my issue, a customer wanted a print that was just a little too big. So, accepting the invisible challenge, I found a new extruder setup that gave me quite a bit more z height. Tested by printing a tall and thin print to make sure it would make it alright to the new height, which it did.
The ptfe liner was cut flush against the black collet after it was locked into place when I installed it on my original setup(the hotend was much closer to the extruder then), and now I wish I would have bought some extra ptfe because I should have run it right up to the extruder on the new setup, but I didn't.
I started the large print in PLA, and everything was going fine for a minute, then I noticed the filament would bend a little, cause the motor to skip. I went to check on my daughter quickly, and when I came back the filament was just bunching up between the extruder and hotend and the ptfe liner had been pushed up quite a bit, as shown in the photo.
It's my assumption the I either didn't have the ptfe liner locked in like I thought I did, or the extruder was pushing filament into the hotend too quickly, and the resulting pressure pushed melted filament between the end of the ptfe liner and the walls of the heatsink.
Interested in what others think about this, and what I might be able to do to fix it.
Thanks!
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