SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — No extrusion

Re: No extrusion

null@example.com (Soynuts) — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 18:26:28 +0000

Well I'm a dork. I have my filastruder vertically mounted and apparently it was leaning forward ever so slightly so the pellets were not going into the barrel.

On the bright side, doing a fully clean/rebuild has now got my extrusion rate back to the faster speed.

Re: No extrusion

null@example.com (AZERATE) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 20:52:07 +0000

A plug is possible, but definitely inspect the thrust bearing if you have not done so. I had the same scenario and the thrust berating was pulverized with no output.

No extrusion

null@example.com (Soynuts) — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:34:20 +0000

I have one of the original kickstart filastruders which I upgraded to the v2 parts shortly after they came out. It's all been working great until recently. Now it does not extrude at all and I am pretty stumped. The motor is going strong and the stall board is showing it's going at the proper force. The auger is spinning and I just cleaned out my nozzle and mesh filter. I am extruding mg94 abs at 190. I lubed up the bearings too. I would like to note that before it got to this point that it has been extruding very slow for the past few months, about 36 hours for 1kg, whereas when I first upgraded to the v2 parts it would take 12 hours.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe the auger/pipe is clogged up and needs a full cleaning? This seems like the most likely scenario as there was a brief time when I used a different abs plastic when mg94 was hard to come by.

I basically just wanted to see if anyone else had any thoughts before I just take the whole thing apart.