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Topic: PETG pellets are too hard to shear

In another thread about PETG I have been struggling and have failed to extrude PETG for any longer than about 5 minutes with my filastruder. The problem is that the pellets are too tough and the auger cant shear them without binding up and stalling the motor, breaking the filament, and ruining the spool. I really want to know how people are able to extrude this material. I am using the EASTAR PETG clear pellets found on this site. Others have posted about it during the beta process as I understand, they wrote about the extrusion just working and one mentioned that they are hard to shear. But who else is having this issue just cause the entire system to just stop. I need more information, I cant grind up the pellets to be smaller and avoid large shear loads. Tweaking temperatures and speeds don't solve this either, because it is a physical problem. Somehow this worked for people, but I don't have any clue how. Please, if you could add to this thread and help a fellow out. It would be the best material for me to work with as far as I can tell, it is just not working out for me.