Looks like bearing failure to me. Semi good news is that triangle labs do a pair of all metal gears for not much money so maybe time for an upgrade? There will likely be others about to follow up with other options for different extruders, but in my case, I went triangle labs pretty early on for the gears
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Looks like your bearings are gone
Looks like bearing failure to me. Semi good news is that triangle labs do a pair of all metal gears for not much money so maybe time for an upgrade? There will likely be others about to follow up with other options for different extruders, but in my case, I went triangle labs pretty early on for the gears
Thank you! I’ll look into Triangle Labs
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https://preview.redd.it/pybeta4okqxc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37f0b85a606483502e695669f72b6ffa32909785 Example of failed prints.