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Topic: leftover cartridge is like after thanksgiving

What do you do guys with leftover cartridge you are using XYZ?

XYZ doesn't left me print when there's isn't enough ABS. So let say a job requires 50.36M and I only have 40.15M it will deny me and forcing me to use a new cartridge because I don't have enough ABS to complete the job.

I now have two leftover cartridges each have about 15M left of ABS. Is there a way to hack the machine to use up the remaining of the ABS, and how may I swap cartridge in between a job without quitting a job?

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Re: leftover cartridge is like after thanksgiving

luluwhine wrote:

What do you do guys with leftover cartridge you are using XYZ?

XYZ doesn't left me print when there's isn't enough ABS. So let say a job requires 50.36M and I only have 40.15M it will deny me and forcing me to use a new cartridge because I don't have enough ABS to complete the job.

I now have two leftover cartridges each have about 15M left of ABS. Is there a way to hack the machine to use up the remaining of the ABS, and how may I swap cartridge in between a job without quitting a job?


They sell refill kits that come with a new spool and a chip. Just open the cartridge and swap out the spool and chip.

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Re: leftover cartridge is like after thanksgiving

luluwhine wrote:

What do you do guys with leftover cartridge you are using XYZ?

XYZ doesn't left me print when there's isn't enough ABS. So let say a job requires 50.36M and I only have 40.15M it will deny me and forcing me to use a new cartridge because I don't have enough ABS to complete the job.

I now have two leftover cartridges each have about 15M left of ABS. Is there a way to hack the machine to use up the remaining of the ABS, and how may I swap cartridge in between a job without quitting a job?

Ok, couple things here....

First you have two options when faced with the 'end of spool dilemma'  You can either get a cart resetter or the wctek cart emulator.  I have the emulator, it goes in the printer in the cart bay and is able to always tell your printer that you have a max cart with 240m of filament ready to go; that way you can use whatever filament you want and use up those carts to the last inch.  I do not like the resetter as it can cause the chip to fail if programmed wrong.

Now I have successfully swapped carts during a print.  On the control panel during a print yu have the option to pause the print.  I was almost out of filament but had another spool ready to go.  So I paused, Manually unloaded the filament, and loaded the new one.  Since I could not use the load procedure during a pause, I had to hold the tab open while I gently pushed the filament in until it just started to come out the tip.  I then un-paused and away it went, worked perfectly....