1 Topic by BeerBellyJoe

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Topic: Heat Bed rising or Hot End lowering?!?!?!

I've been printing away of about two weeks now and am running into some problems, this is what happened....

I adjusted the hot end spacing with the paper method and will print fine for a while, my hot end will sometimes clog but It will unclog with the wire method. Then I will do another print but the first layer will be super thin, and the hot end spacing will be off. It seems that my hot end will clog because it ends up to close to the heated bed and the filament cant go any where. when I last pressed the home command, I looked at the hot end and the bed.....the hot end is way lower!!I have noticed black plastic from the bottom of the PEEK and am wondering if the whole barrel/ heater assembly is sliding out of the peek. the highest I've printed at is 200C. Please help!

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Re: Heat Bed rising or Hot End lowering?!?!?!

did you adjust the print bed 'hot' or 'cold'... because if it was done 'hot' it shouldn't be the heat bed expanding causing the issue.. if you adjusted it 'cold', then its possible its the bed expanding

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Re: Heat Bed rising or Hot End lowering?!?!?!

I figured that out the hard way haha.........no I adjusted it hot, but the extruder tip was like an 1/8" lower than the print bed when I had it at the home position on my last print! Thats when I realized I had no idea whats happening!!