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Topic: Flexible filament with Davinci 1.0AIO

We ordered a flexible filament cartridge off the Davinci website, excited about the possibility of printing flexible objects.  Big mistake so far! The first time we tried filament started coming out of the side of the print head! We managed to extract that, and loaded it again.  This time, it laid the "U" shaped test line, and then refused to print the actual object. So we unloaded the flexible, tried another ABS cartridge, and we can't get anything to come out! The print head seems jammed up tight. And of course, no call back yet from Davinci support. Not sure what we're going to do.

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2 Reply by RC1

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Re: Flexible filament with Davinci 1.0AIO

One thing I do know about the davinci printers is the hot end is a piece of junk, the guide heats up as the fan isn't cooling it. This I can say is probably where you issue lies.

3 Reply by scobo

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Re: Flexible filament with Davinci 1.0AIO

Flexible filament needs to printed at REALLY slow speeds.
The fastest I can manage is 8mm/s, and that's with an E3D hotend !
I doubt the stock hotend is really up to the job of printing flexi tbh.

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4 Reply by dstreb

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Re: Flexible filament with Davinci 1.0AIO

Thanks to our crack team of Library technicians, they were able to take pieces off the print head assembly, fish out the offending materials, and put it back together! Amazing work! It's back printing ABS just fine!

5 Reply by mark.burton

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Re: Flexible filament with Davinci 1.0AIO

Well with my e3d v6 and the bondtech I am printing at 60mm/s  before the bond tech I needed to print at 20mm/s to 30mm/s.