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Topic: Completely jammed E3D

I know this is a rare occasion except with PLA depending on your retraction but anyway
I completely clogged my E3D with abs.

How you may ask?

Well my fan went out and as some of you may know if the fan goes out it will clog depending on the length of time.

I tried heating up the extruder and pulled the filament but it snapped in pieces at the beginning of the
cooling fins.

Any ideas how I should unclog it before I take it apart and take a blow torch to it?

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

Wha? Wasn't that supposed to be like sinking the titanic? You could try the guitar string thing? Good luck!

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

I did try the guitar string but the abs expanded in the cooling fins
so heat can't quite make it up there.

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

Soak it in acetone.

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

Can't believe I didn't think of that
That sounds like the solution I was looking for

Thanks Tim!

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

Careful with the blow torch techbuilder, the aluminum parts will melt.

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

ronsii wrote:

Careful with the blow torch techbuilder, the aluminum parts will melt.


I know I was just frustrated lol

Long week of random issues with the SD3
I was having a great week before that though

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Re: Completely jammed E3D

Good luck!

I had some fan problems when my fan wire (original SD2) was faulty [broken in part.]  Luckily I guess never stayed off *that* long and didn't creep too high that a properly cooled fan couldn't push it out.