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Topic: replacing extruder ? Any experience ?

Has anyone here replaced their extruder ?
Where to start ? I am asking here, because solidoodle support was supposed to let me know the steps when i got the extruder, and since I just got it, and they aren't available until tomorrow well, you know how it is !

I saw the post on the wiki about not taking it apart, but I think it's needed to replace the extruder, I plan on going slow and taking notes.
Anything else I should watch out for ?

Thanks !

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Re: replacing extruder ? Any experience ?

Did they send the whole acylic extruder, or just the hot end?

Try this post - http://www.soliforum.com/topic/235/extr … bly-guide/

3 Reply by jul654321 (edited by jul654321 2012-11-20 23:50:24)

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Re: replacing extruder ? Any experience ?

Just the hot end.
Thanks for the link, I will go through it to figure if I need to disassemble everything or if i can just get the hot end out

From the look of it, I need to take it out of the extruder assembly.

4 Reply by jul654321 (edited by jul654321 2012-11-21 00:15:29)

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Re: replacing extruder ? Any experience ?

Thanks, new hot end installed. I didn't have the take the acrylic parts apart, so that helped.

Everything seems ok now, I'll run a few test to be sure.
And I need to adjust the Z heigth again I'm guessing smile

Thanks a lot !