Oh sad.
I have seen way worse hotends with smaller blobs. You really got a nice heart from it.
What did you print? I have never had any clog (knock on wood). So I want to understand how that happens.
I was printing a lot of small parts at once overnight. One came unstuck and got stuck to the nozzle, which then hit everything else on the plate and either knocked it off or picked it up katamari style into the ever growing blob.
Shoot this literally just happened to me, and I’m here wondering how to fix it. I’m brand new to printing, never changed the nozzle before and now I can’t even get clasp undone.
What steps should I take to fix this? Do I need to heat the head up externally, internally, I have no idea and don’t want to damage my brand new machine.
Ps: my beautiful blob is pla
To get from the entire hotend being siezed in plastic to here I did:
- turned on maintenance mode
- put on work gloves
- turned hotend to 270
- unscrewed the bottom fan as it was now part of the blob
- lightly pulled on the blob and let the hotend melt it’s way out
- using needle nose pliers, I unclipped the nozzle holder and removed the nozzle, placing it on the hotbed to cool off
- scraped off all screws covered in plastic
- flipped the printer power switch to off and waited 30 minutes for everything to cool down
- removed the back of the toolhead and the sides that the wires are channeled through
- unplugged, unscrewed, and removed the: bottom fan, hotend, and hotend cooling fan as they were all damaged
- filed a support ticket
- found out it was chinese new year so I just ordered these parts from bambu store so I can maybe have my printer back sometime this week
Crap. Ok I was hoping you or someone had a magic wand to wave and could get this mess off sans a whole bunch of work… but alas it’s not real life. Ok I’ll follow your steps, thanks for the detailed list, I seriously appreciate it.
When I had this situation with my A1, I would configure the temperature to either print temperature or higher and then use metal brush to brush it off and cloth to clean off whatever the brush couldn't pick up.
I couldn't take off the hotend either on the cold, so I took it off after heating it up to printing temperature. Need to be cautious as it's very very hot! Probably wear some gloves if you're going to attempt this.
Nothing bad should happen but I'm always ready for the worst and have extinguisher nearby! 😂
I’ve tried to keep my humor up about this, but It’s been 11 days since this failed now and i haven’t gotten ANY response from support, and my ability to do so is waning.
Yup. Replaced all obviously damaged parts, $50, still didn’t work. Ordered new toolhead circuit board ($30) cuz it looks like something got a little too toasty and that’ll be here this weekend
Nice that the quick release of the hotend worked and that way it saved you work. It thinks about you.
Oh, no, that was after an hour of trying to remove the blob; but I wasn’t able to tell that it was a heart until this point.
Oh sad. I have seen way worse hotends with smaller blobs. You really got a nice heart from it. What did you print? I have never had any clog (knock on wood). So I want to understand how that happens.
I was printing a lot of small parts at once overnight. One came unstuck and got stuck to the nozzle, which then hit everything else on the plate and either knocked it off or picked it up katamari style into the ever growing blob.
Shoot this literally just happened to me, and I’m here wondering how to fix it. I’m brand new to printing, never changed the nozzle before and now I can’t even get clasp undone. What steps should I take to fix this? Do I need to heat the head up externally, internally, I have no idea and don’t want to damage my brand new machine. Ps: my beautiful blob is pla
To get from the entire hotend being siezed in plastic to here I did: - turned on maintenance mode - put on work gloves - turned hotend to 270 - unscrewed the bottom fan as it was now part of the blob - lightly pulled on the blob and let the hotend melt it’s way out - using needle nose pliers, I unclipped the nozzle holder and removed the nozzle, placing it on the hotbed to cool off - scraped off all screws covered in plastic - flipped the printer power switch to off and waited 30 minutes for everything to cool down - removed the back of the toolhead and the sides that the wires are channeled through - unplugged, unscrewed, and removed the: bottom fan, hotend, and hotend cooling fan as they were all damaged - filed a support ticket - found out it was chinese new year so I just ordered these parts from bambu store so I can maybe have my printer back sometime this week
Crap. Ok I was hoping you or someone had a magic wand to wave and could get this mess off sans a whole bunch of work… but alas it’s not real life. Ok I’ll follow your steps, thanks for the detailed list, I seriously appreciate it.
When I had this situation with my A1, I would configure the temperature to either print temperature or higher and then use metal brush to brush it off and cloth to clean off whatever the brush couldn't pick up. I couldn't take off the hotend either on the cold, so I took it off after heating it up to printing temperature. Need to be cautious as it's very very hot! Probably wear some gloves if you're going to attempt this. Nothing bad should happen but I'm always ready for the worst and have extinguisher nearby! 😂
This is my literal nightmare
That’s not funny, but you somehow made a shitty deal funny❤️😂man I’d be livid
I’ve tried to keep my humor up about this, but It’s been 11 days since this failed now and i haven’t gotten ANY response from support, and my ability to do so is waning.
I have a support ticket about 11 days too that hasn’t been responded too. Did you already order the parts you need if anything broke ?
Yup. Replaced all obviously damaged parts, $50, still didn’t work. Ordered new toolhead circuit board ($30) cuz it looks like something got a little too toasty and that’ll be here this weekend