SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Extruder motor "Ticking"

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2014-01-03T23:08:36Z

Loosening the tension screw is a bad idea as the filament can just be stripped. If it is just ticking on occasion you may just need to reduce your flow multiplier. I had that problem too.

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2014-01-03T22:03:57Z

Didn't have problems with the ticking sound until I moved the unit from a windows 7 machine to a mac 10.6 machine. Lots of weird things are happening when using the mac.

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2014-01-02T23:59:09Z

Another take on this issue: Have you loaded new firmware?

I was just experimenting with making sure I could load and restore the firmware, and found that with the new Marlin beta firmware loaded, printing a test cube make the extruder start clacking when it retracted at the corner. Putting back the original firmware then made it even worse till I also put back the original eeprom, then the test cube was perfect again and all clacking noises stopped:

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/har … mware.html

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2014-01-02T21:17:00Z

I loosened the tensioning screw on the extruder. The one that grips the filament. I don't like it to mark the filament. I think, in my case, this was what was causing the ticking noise.

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2013-12-30T15:50:20Z

Which screw?

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2013-12-30T03:10:26Z

I had the same problem today with my SD3. I loosened the tightening screw and it went away. Let us know if this does not work.

Re: Extruder motor "Ticking"

2013-12-29T22:42:05Z

Does it make the same sound when in manual control just extruding?

Extruder motor "Ticking"

2013-12-29T22:18:44Z

Just started hearing a weird ticking on my SD3. Finally figured out it was the extruder motor. What causes this and how is it fixed?

Just really bugged by the sound.

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