I have been 3d printing for close to 5 years and cannot believe that I ran across your channel just recently. The common sense (which seems to be lacking everywhere) you exhibit is nothing short of refreshing. Love your channel.
I wish I had seen this video before I bought 3 hot ends after my prints kept coming un attached. II even bought a new printer! When i happened again on my new printer, I saw this video, and these methods worked a charm. Thanks so much for sharing!!
your bed might be causing the problem as there is not enough adhesion, to avoid it happening again you could try increasing bed temperature to secure the print down
I had my first 3D printer for a few months now before this happened and I was so worried when this happened, I thought I'd have to replace the whole unit. It looked like a terrible mess with the clog but thanks to you, I fixed this and now I have resumed printing in less than 10-15 minutes as promised. Thank you for making this video. I really appreciate it.
If you chose a temp. slightly below melting point (for example 180 pla), it still melts, but still sticks together enough to get it off in one piece without wiping.
This really helped me. I was printing overnight and a blob happened. I tried to peel it away but the thermistor came off and I had to buy a whole new head. Thank you!
@@29dmrHe was asking if you were being serious because your comment mentioned you had ti buy a new head, while this video is talking about how to get rid if blobs without any replacements
jesus christ thank you for your help man. the shaking inside me speaks volumes of how badly this upset me. i thought i'd completely binned it. watching your video gave me some assurance, that, at least i would probably be able to replace it for... not too much. i followed your guidance, and, beyond it, grabbed some maxiflex warehouse gloves. they provide enough heat resistance that you can grab and prod without worry, but theyre not for scraping hot pla off on. i then grabbed on to the solid, elephant foot like structure i had just accidentally designed, and slowly pulled down with no more than what felt like 500-1000g of weight slowly pushing the parts of PLA towards the hot nozzle, the parts which were encasing cables, wiggling, massaging, saying some kind words, apologising for not supervising it, and promising that you'll at least check on it with some regularity, or maybe buy a camera? it eventually, after enough begging, let go. i was so relieved, and i have a massive elephant foot to show for it. using the gloves i was able to get the sock out without damaging it. the one thing i would warn, is that there are often fans spinning close to where you work with metal tools. be careful not to hit them. if you do hit them, and they do start sounding strange, turn it off, tap it a bit firmly on the fan, blow any debris away, and restart, until it sounds like desired again. god, at 04:53 in the morning too, and i nearly soiled myself. thank god it all turned out alright. just gotta get the shell back on, the sock back on, and she should be ready to do more prints.
You're the best. Clear and concise explanation and it worked. I'm an archi student with a deadline tomorrow that woke up to this after setting up an overnight print - on a borrowed printer. Panicked. Cleaned up and just started again!
I have no idea how it took so long to find this channel. I own a QIDI X Max, a Prusa MKS3+, a CR-10s pro v2, and now an Ender 3 V2, which might be my favorite machine thanks to your channel. The Prusa is great, but thanks to my Ender and your videos I feel like I actually understand these machines.
Great video. I woke this morning to a massive blob on my hot end. Thanks for the tips here I was able to remove it with the only casualty being my silicone sleeve
I had this issue for the first time and I was so happy that I came across your video. Really thought I was gonna have to buy a new hotend for an old Neptune 2s!
Man, ran across this issue during the first week of having my printer. Unfortunatly couldn't heat up the handle since even though i checked the initial layer this happened to me for a large portion of the print. Observed the beginning of the print to make sure it was adhering fine then went to bed. Woke up with this giant blob all over my ender 3 s1 plus and the printer refused to preheat the nozzle (likely due to how much of the filament showed up, it even ate two cables pulling one off the mechanism slightly but hardening enough that I can't plug it back in. After some fiddling I ended up just ordering replacement parts, once I verify the replacement parts working fine I'll go back and try fixing the broken extruder myself as a learning experience. Thanks for the video man, will note this knowledge for the future. Just a warning for those using a heat gun - there is a large heatsink (at least on my extruder mechanism) that ended up permeating across and lifting one of the cable connections. Should be an easy fix once I get the blob off but just a warning for those in the future. A bit worried since it did seem to mesh together some of the smaller cables near there but plugging it in the mechanisms those are related to are working fine, will just make replacing those individual parts harder if needed. To imagine all this damage from me not releveling after purchasing one of those adhesive sheets and putting it on the print bed. My laziness cost me a near $200 replacement parts fee qq.
I had this happen a few times now over the course of 6 months, it ruined the hot end so much I had to fully buy a new full hot end. The thing that made me do so was because after fighting to remove the filament blob and doing all that you said. The problems for me was the hot end was so encased that all the tiny gaps and screw holes and even the tiny holding screw below the heater cartridge was full of the now hardened once melted filament such that no cleaning could get out the melted filament of the tiny heater holding screw! So I could not remove the heater cartridge at all as the Allen key could not get into the tiny screw to undo it and the mess even was wrapped around the thermistor cable too and would have broken the wires if I had tried to remove it? The melted filament just made it impossible to remove without the wiring being damaged. and yes a hot gun was tried after I got the hot end off the back plate and placed in a small metal hobby vise. So I now lost 3 hot ends. I had to replace them and change the bowden tubing to Capricorn and had either a all metal hot end with the bi-metal throat or us tight fitted Capricorn tubing down t the nozzle to stop out flowing hot filament. The new problem I now got is almost as bad? I have silk pla's and every time I tried to print with them on any of the now 4 printers I got each time the silk pla flow fine and print but soon block up the hot end such that I am forced to strip it fully down to clear out the blockage as heating more and such don't remove the blockage. And I even had a silk pla that I started at the stated temp on the nozzle on the help info box label and it would not even flow so I tried again at 5 C higher and so on, then I get it to flow at a 220 C temp and walk away and come back and see it put down 3 layers and then totally blocked up the hot end. Only my silks do this, my normal pla's and petg's are fine. Really a pain.
fr similar thing just happened to me. Pretty sure it's lodged deep inside the mechanism in my case and it even pulled some cables. Lesson learned on my part but it does suck. Ended up also buying a replacement part. Thankfully I have an ender and replacement parts seem readily available (although their listing of what printers are supported isn't quite accurate from what I can tell)
Ricky your videos are amazing, I am new to 3D printing got an Ender 3 S1 for Christmas. I watched your videos to learn so much before I started and as I made mistakes, I wish that I saw this one before I boiled my hot end in water to clear it. LOL Thank you for the great information you provide.
@@RickyImpey Let it sit overnight and it is running great. Again, I have learned so much as I go through your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge
Good grief! now that's commitment, flooding your printers with filament just to demonstrate how to clean the Quatermass level of blob on a brand-new printer. Well impressed.
This helped me a lot for cleaning mine up! Although instead of a towel or shirt, I just use paper towel. I'm not sure why that wasn't really covered as good/bad for the use-case, but it seemed to work well for me as an alternative material!
Omg this helped so much! If you can take out the nozzle and heatbreak and pull a bit of cloth on wire or with your plyers that helps too. I only use PLA but have a spider v3 on my enter 3 and it leaks out the top and bottom so I am trying to tighten it at 270c and I only print at 200-210 c
So I know its a bit late but lets say that you panicked and tried to remove it but now the heat measurer cable gets cut and the blob is still on the printer what should I do?
If you can, also run a little needle into the nozzle to see if it’s still blocked from inside. If not, run cleaner filament for a bit to get rid of the loose crud or at least enough so you can remove stuff.
Great video, my Heat block ended up being threaded. I think by the heat. I have Cr-10 Smart Pro. Are heat blocks interchangeable. Like can I take a heat block from my Ender 3 V2 and place it on my cr-10?
"The sock" had a damage. It took the better part of an hour to get it all done. Other than that success!! (I was surprised how well the cotton rag cleaned the mess)
Got a blob and it encapsulated the wires to the heater and thermometer on the hotend (as well as completely encapsulating the sock), had to spend hours gently trying to clear it away but broke all the wires, it's also up between the heating element and the cooling block and filled up the screw heads so making it difficult to pull the heating element off to clean up. Grrr. Ender 3 V3 KE.
Hi, Thank you very much. My Printer produced a blob 2 days ago and I was able to clean everything up with your instructions. I just have one problem, it still stinks when I heat my hot end up. What do?
The smell with most likely be from any remaining filament. The only real way to clean it off is wiping it with something like a rag when the hotend is hot. Be careful not to burn yourself!
As long as the thermistor and heating element are both still attached to the heat block then there is no problem. The heater heats and the thermistor tells it when it is at the correct temperature and to stop heating.
Oh no! Unfortunately it's not uncommon to damage parts removing a filament blob. At least you will hopefully have an easier time removing it if it happens again.
Hopefully you'll get to my question I could use your help, what happens if the filament gets all around the heatbreak area , I have a voxelab Aquila v2 and there is the tiniest gap between the nozzle and the square part and twice already I have gotten filament that goes up and I think is getting in there going through and around the heat break coming out of the top of the square and just replaced it twice , would this work
Hi Ricky, i kept my printer to print over night and woke up to the same issue, i paniced and tried to cut off the dry PLA of the nozzel and hotend and by mistake i broke the nozzel and there are 2 white electric wires that got disconnected :(, im lost on what to do now its my first time owning a 3D printer and this issue occured on my 3rd day, the printer i have is Xvico x3s. do i need a new hotend assembly? i can email you some pictuers of how the hotend looks like now if you want. Many thanks
Oh dear, it sounds like you may have cut through the thermistor or heater wires. This also means you won't be able to heat it up to clean off the hard filament. You could try gently heating with a heat gun but be very careful of any plastic parts around your hotend. The other option is to replace the whole hotend and wiring.
@@RickyImpey Hi, thanks for taking your time and responding to me ! i ws able to heat the the the extruder, however, the thermostate wires are disconnected. and the nozzel is broken :(
Sadly my bambulab A1 has such a blowout that i have to replace some Parts. I have tried what was said in this video but sadly there was too mutch pla blown out
In my case, it's the nozzle, the nozzles that i bought online do not suit the ender printer. They look very similar to the originalones, but still, there are tiny differences. when i put the original nozzle again, it works perfectly
I have an elegoo Neptune 4 max and the blob I have is blocking the temperature sensor so now the nozzle won’t even heat up, not sure what to do but buy a new hot end
This kind of hotend is very easy to clean, but my printer is a sovol sv06plus with a hotend that is not so easy. The temperature sensor cable is so thinny and they will brake very fast at the try to temive a blob. I have ordered now my 3. hotend. 😢 the blob came at first to my printer because the Z Level was wrong, so i keep an eye on a good z leveling. The 2. was broken because the adhesion of the bed was not enough, so i buyed an adhesion spray and now its good. The 3. Get broken because i had layershifting and the print goes on in the air. This thing drives me crazy. I have so much problems with my printer and im running out of options to solve it.
The Sock Is A LIFESAVER my printer came with one and HOLY CRAP the blob got everywhere when finally got it off the sock was destroyed but the nozzle was just fine
My K1max got a huge blob of PLA over the hole printhead. There is so much waste and the head won't heat up anymore (maybe the heat damaged the electronics?). There is no way to disasemble any on the head and it seems that the printer is only good as waste. I think I will buy a new one, but not from Creality.
My ender 5 S1 is getting these blobs over and over. I replaced the printer bed with the rough Creality surface bed and I’m using glue stick before my prints. The blobs are still happening.
Yeah i had this recently and i got incredibly unlucky the plastic mad its way to the wires and melted it all off so i was left with stranded wire everywhere hotend unusable and had a hell of a time trying to pop it out. the plactic got into the threas of the holding block had to chisel the hotened and its entire block out. it doesnt help that my 3d printer is now 12 years old and not worth fixing.
i didnt have a big print and i checked on my thing and there was a blob, I pannicked so i stopped it quickly and gently ish pulled it off, now theres just strands that I need to clean up
Hi, my channel email address is in my 'About' section if you need to contact me. Alternatively, I offer any help I can here through comments as they can be read by others who may have the same issues.
This did not pop up I watch multiple video from 7:00 am searching different things like nozzle melted material around it help, how to fix, how to remove, how to take apart none ever showed this video I get this video after I pull on it after I try to get it off I fucking UA-cam and it’s algorithm, is there way to buy parts or did I just ruin my printer ?
I will say I am a wine chef in a very small town where nobody cooks for themselves. AKA Mifflin county, Pennsylvania Lewistown to be precise. Just a bunch of lazy people in this town, especially Rich old, lazy people. But I digress. I touch a hot flat top everyday with my bare hands. 350° 400° 450° f. Use tolls when you are messing with a 3D printer. Even if you have calluses have thick skin on your hands from doing a job, it doesn't matter. They will burn just as easy. Also save some money. Cook at home. Go to a butcher and get all your burgers from the butcher. Don't go to Walmart. Don't get a little grocery store. Go to a meat place and get your burgers. Get your steaks because if not you go to Walmart everyday to buy your food and cook it. You're not saving any money and you think you're saving money. Goodbye. Going out to eat you 100%. Aren't we in the restaurant business? Take pride and taking something that cost a little bit. Although now with Joe Biden being our president everything is almost at cost and we can't make money but listen up in Mifflin county prices are going to change. You're going to have to start paying for being lazy.
I have been 3d printing for close to 5 years and cannot believe that I ran across your channel just recently. The common sense (which seems to be lacking everywhere) you exhibit is nothing short of refreshing. Love your channel.
I wish I had seen this video before I bought 3 hot ends after my prints kept coming un attached. II even bought a new printer! When i happened again on my new printer, I saw this video, and these methods worked a charm. Thanks so much for sharing!!
your bed might be causing the problem as there is not enough adhesion, to avoid it happening again you could try increasing bed temperature to secure the print down
I had my first 3D printer for a few months now before this happened and I was so worried when this happened, I thought I'd have to replace the whole unit. It looked like a terrible mess with the clog but thanks to you, I fixed this and now I have resumed printing in less than 10-15 minutes as promised. Thank you for making this video. I really appreciate it.
Really glad it helped👍
If you chose a temp. slightly below melting point (for example 180 pla), it still melts, but still sticks together enough to get it off in one piece without wiping.
so why does this happen?
Thankyou so much, i was so shocked and so panicked when i saw my 3D-Printer looking like this this morning. This helped a lot! Thanks!
This really helped me. I was printing overnight and a blob happened. I tried to peel it away but the thermistor came off and I had to buy a whole new head. Thank you!
is this mocking him or being serious i can’t tell
@@bebblll no it actually happened
@@29dmrHe was asking if you were being serious because your comment mentioned you had ti buy a new head, while this video is talking about how to get rid if blobs without any replacements
@@Ector_902 oh yeah lol. should've been more specific. i meant it helped me another time after the time the head got destroyed
The effort you put in your videos is jaw-dropping. Great work man!
Thanks for the support 👍
Yet another perfect video.
Right to the point.
No dramatization, no shilling 3d party products.
jesus christ thank you for your help man.
the shaking inside me speaks volumes of how badly this upset me. i thought i'd completely binned it.
watching your video gave me some assurance, that, at least i would probably be able to replace it for... not too much.
i followed your guidance, and, beyond it, grabbed some maxiflex warehouse gloves. they provide enough heat resistance that you can grab and prod without worry, but theyre not for scraping hot pla off on.
i then grabbed on to the solid, elephant foot like structure i had just accidentally designed, and slowly pulled down with no more than what felt like 500-1000g of weight
slowly pushing the parts of PLA towards the hot nozzle, the parts which were encasing cables, wiggling, massaging, saying some kind words, apologising for not supervising it, and promising that you'll at least check on it with some regularity, or maybe buy a camera?
it eventually, after enough begging, let go. i was so relieved, and i have a massive elephant foot to show for it.
using the gloves i was able to get the sock out without damaging it.
the one thing i would warn, is that there are often fans spinning close to where you work with metal tools. be careful not to hit them.
if you do hit them, and they do start sounding strange, turn it off, tap it a bit firmly on the fan, blow any debris away, and restart, until it sounds like desired again.
god, at 04:53 in the morning too, and i nearly soiled myself. thank god it all turned out alright.
just gotta get the shell back on, the sock back on, and she should be ready to do more prints.
You're the best. Clear and concise explanation and it worked. I'm an archi student with a deadline tomorrow that woke up to this after setting up an overnight print - on a borrowed printer. Panicked. Cleaned up and just started again!
Awesome! Really glad it helped👍
I have no idea how it took so long to find this channel. I own a QIDI X Max, a Prusa MKS3+, a CR-10s pro v2, and now an Ender 3 V2, which might be my favorite machine thanks to your channel.
The Prusa is great, but thanks to my Ender and your videos I feel like I actually understand these machines.
Awesome 👍 Welcome to the channel Josh🙂
Encountered The Blob this weekend, your video made tidy-up relatively painless!
Great video. I woke this morning to a massive blob on my hot end. Thanks for the tips here I was able to remove it with the only casualty being my silicone sleeve
Fingers crossed that I can do this tomorrow
Thanks! You saved my bacon.
Thank you👍
I had this issue for the first time and I was so happy that I came across your video. Really thought I was gonna have to buy a new hotend for an old Neptune 2s!
A lot of effort went into this one! And poor hotends :) Thank you, very informative.
Man, ran across this issue during the first week of having my printer. Unfortunatly couldn't heat up the handle since even though i checked the initial layer this happened to me for a large portion of the print. Observed the beginning of the print to make sure it was adhering fine then went to bed. Woke up with this giant blob all over my ender 3 s1 plus and the printer refused to preheat the nozzle (likely due to how much of the filament showed up, it even ate two cables pulling one off the mechanism slightly but hardening enough that I can't plug it back in.
After some fiddling I ended up just ordering replacement parts, once I verify the replacement parts working fine I'll go back and try fixing the broken extruder myself as a learning experience.
Thanks for the video man, will note this knowledge for the future. Just a warning for those using a heat gun - there is a large heatsink (at least on my extruder mechanism) that ended up permeating across and lifting one of the cable connections. Should be an easy fix once I get the blob off but just a warning for those in the future. A bit worried since it did seem to mesh together some of the smaller cables near there but plugging it in the mechanisms those are related to are working fine, will just make replacing those individual parts harder if needed.
To imagine all this damage from me not releveling after purchasing one of those adhesive sheets and putting it on the print bed. My laziness cost me a near $200 replacement parts fee qq.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Sometimes there can just be no easy recovery and you have to replace some parts as you've had to.
Short, sweet and to the point I love it
I had this happen a few times now over the course of 6 months, it ruined the hot end so much I had to fully buy a new full hot end.
The thing that made me do so was because after fighting to remove the filament blob and doing all that you said.
The problems for me was the hot end was so encased that all the tiny gaps and screw holes and even the tiny holding screw below the heater cartridge was full of the now hardened once melted
filament such that no cleaning could get out the melted filament of the tiny heater holding screw!
So I could not remove the heater cartridge at all as the Allen key could not get into the tiny screw to undo it and the mess even was wrapped around the thermistor cable too and would have broken the wires if I had tried to remove it?
The melted filament just made it impossible to remove without the wiring being damaged. and yes a hot gun was tried after I got the hot end off the back plate and placed in a small metal hobby vise. So I now lost 3 hot ends. I had to replace them and change the bowden tubing to Capricorn and had either a all metal hot end with the bi-metal throat or us tight fitted Capricorn tubing down t the nozzle to stop out flowing hot filament. The new problem I now got is almost as bad?
I have silk pla's and every time I tried to print with them on any of the now 4 printers I got each time the silk pla flow fine and print but soon block up the hot end such that I am forced to strip it fully down to clear out the blockage as heating more and such don't remove the blockage.
And I even had a silk pla that I started at the stated temp on the nozzle on the help info box label and it would not even flow so I tried again at 5 C higher and so on, then I get it to flow at a 220 C temp and walk away and come back and see it put down 3 layers and then totally blocked up the hot end. Only my silks do this, my normal pla's and petg's are fine.
Really a pain.
fr similar thing just happened to me. Pretty sure it's lodged deep inside the mechanism in my case and it even pulled some cables. Lesson learned on my part but it does suck. Ended up also buying a replacement part. Thankfully I have an ender and replacement parts seem readily available (although their listing of what printers are supported isn't quite accurate from what I can tell)
Is there any solution to this? Or do I have to just expect to cough up $30 every other week for a new hotend?
Thank you but my thermistor was dammaged so i cannot heat up the pla. What do I do then?
Ricky your videos are amazing, I am new to 3D printing got an Ender 3 S1 for Christmas. I watched your videos to learn so much before I started and as I made mistakes, I wish that I saw this one before I boiled my hot end in water to clear it. LOL Thank you for the great information you provide.
Ah, yes, this would have been easier. Hope you are up and running again now.
@@RickyImpey Let it sit overnight and it is running great. Again, I have learned so much as I go through your videos, thank you for sharing your knowledge
Great video, helped me recently.
-- Thank you! This video defiantly helped, but my was not as much of the "disaster" of PLA blob... none the less, thumbs up!
Good grief! now that's commitment, flooding your printers with filament just to demonstrate how to clean the Quatermass level of blob on a brand-new printer. Well impressed.
This helped me a lot for cleaning mine up! Although instead of a towel or shirt, I just use paper towel. I'm not sure why that wasn't really covered as good/bad for the use-case, but it seemed to work well for me as an alternative material!
Thanx so much. This video was a life saver
Thank you this helped me so
Thank u! This really helped me!
Thanks so much!!!
Thank you sir , 👍✌️
Great tip, thank you
Omg this helped so much! If you can take out the nozzle and heatbreak and pull a bit of cloth on wire or with your plyers that helps too. I only use PLA but have a spider v3 on my enter 3 and it leaks out the top and bottom so I am trying to tighten it at 270c and I only print at 200-210 c
Thanks, great vid 👍
thanks this was super helpful!
I have a bambu lab a1 and this video worked for it to. thank you so much.
Thank you this was such a lifesaver
this is still great, thank you
So I know its a bit late but lets say that you panicked and tried to remove it but now the heat measurer cable gets cut and the blob is still on the printer what should I do?
If you can, also run a little needle into the nozzle to see if it’s still blocked from inside. If not, run cleaner filament for a bit to get rid of the loose crud or at least enough so you can remove stuff.
yes someone made the vid, thank you!
My first blob appeared ,ty for video
Wow I've never seen that before but I'm new to this
What is the silicon sock used for?
Thanks
Great video, my Heat block ended up being threaded. I think by the heat. I have Cr-10 Smart Pro. Are heat blocks interchangeable. Like can I take a heat block from my Ender 3 V2 and place it on my cr-10?
"The sock" had a damage. It took the better part of an hour to get it all done. Other than that success!! (I was surprised how well the cotton rag cleaned the mess)
Got a blob and it encapsulated the wires to the heater and thermometer on the hotend (as well as completely encapsulating the sock), had to spend hours gently trying to clear it away but broke all the wires, it's also up between the heating element and the cooling block and filled up the screw heads so making it difficult to pull the heating element off to clean up. Grrr. Ender 3 V3 KE.
To make any future cleanups significantly easier, wrap the heater block in a layer of kapton tape.
Hi, Thank you very much. My Printer produced a blob 2 days ago and I was able to clean everything up with your instructions. I just have one problem, it still stinks when I heat my hot end up. What do?
The smell with most likely be from any remaining filament. The only real way to clean it off is wiping it with something like a rag when the hotend is hot. Be careful not to burn yourself!
@@RickyImpey Thank you I tried exactly that, and after a couple of hours the rest of the stench disappeared.
Question when your wiping the hot end with the rag how do you stop the thermistor from blowing since you removed the fan?
As long as the thermistor and heating element are both still attached to the heat block then there is no problem. The heater heats and the thermistor tells it when it is at the correct temperature and to stop heating.
I wish I had found this video a week ago.
Had a massive blob and removing it made my Hotend completely unusable.
Oh no! Unfortunately it's not uncommon to damage parts removing a filament blob. At least you will hopefully have an easier time removing it if it happens again.
This happened to me with flexible pla and it wrapped around all of the wires from the hot end… had to replace the whole hot end
Hopefully you'll get to my question I could use your help, what happens if the filament gets all around the heatbreak area , I have a voxelab Aquila v2 and there is the tiniest gap between the nozzle and the square part and twice already I have gotten filament that goes up and I think is getting in there going through and around the heat break coming out of the top of the square and just replaced it twice , would this work
I have a A1 Bambu and accidentally pulled a wire loose. I’m new to printing what should I do?
Hi Ricky, i kept my printer to print over night and woke up to the same issue, i paniced and tried to cut off the dry PLA of the nozzel and hotend and by mistake i broke the nozzel and there are 2 white electric wires that got disconnected :(, im lost on what to do now its my first time owning a 3D printer and this issue occured on my 3rd day, the printer i have is Xvico x3s. do i need a new hotend assembly? i can email you some pictuers of how the hotend looks like now if you want.
Many thanks
Oh dear, it sounds like you may have cut through the thermistor or heater wires. This also means you won't be able to heat it up to clean off the hard filament. You could try gently heating with a heat gun but be very careful of any plastic parts around your hotend. The other option is to replace the whole hotend and wiring.
@@RickyImpey Hi, thanks for taking your time and responding to me ! i ws able to heat the the the extruder, however, the thermostate wires are disconnected. and the nozzel is broken :(
Sadly my bambulab A1 has such a blowout that i have to replace some Parts. I have tried what was said in this video but sadly there was too mutch pla blown out
In my case, it's the nozzle, the nozzles that i bought online do not suit the ender printer. They look very similar to the originalones, but still, there are tiny differences. when i put the original nozzle again, it works perfectly
I used a toothpick to clean the narrow tricky bit. Be careful though, you don't want to break the toothpick
Brand new to 3d printing and this has happened 2 times and this time it’s smoking I can’t tell if it the electrical part or the filliment
this happened to my k1c and i couldnt see it because its enclosed by the fan casing, and kept getting drips of black filament in further prints
Mine shorted once the blob happened now I can’t even get the wires removed to put in a new hotend. What should I do?
I have an elegoo Neptune 4 max and the blob I have is blocking the temperature sensor so now the nozzle won’t even heat up, not sure what to do but buy a new hot end
This kind of hotend is very easy to clean, but my printer is a sovol sv06plus with a hotend that is not so easy. The temperature sensor cable is so thinny and they will brake very fast at the try to temive a blob. I have ordered now my 3. hotend. 😢 the blob came at first to my printer because the Z Level was wrong, so i keep an eye on a good z leveling. The 2. was broken because the adhesion of the bed was not enough, so i buyed an adhesion spray and now its good. The 3. Get broken because i had layershifting and the print goes on in the air. This thing drives me crazy. I have so much problems with my printer and im running out of options to solve it.
The Sock Is A LIFESAVER my printer came with one and HOLY CRAP the blob got everywhere when finally got it off the sock was destroyed but the nozzle was just fine
Yes, they are a great sacrificial part to save the more expensive bits.
I've had this happen on my ender 3 max neo, got most of it off but there's some still stuck in there I don't know how to remove the fan cover
My K1max got a huge blob of PLA over the hole printhead. There is so much waste and the head won't heat up anymore (maybe the heat damaged the electronics?). There is no way to disasemble any on the head and it seems that the printer is only good as waste. I think I will buy a new one, but not from Creality.
My ender 5 S1 is getting these blobs over and over.
I replaced the printer bed with the rough Creality surface bed and I’m using glue stick before my prints.
The blobs are still happening.
What if the filament is hard
Yeah i had this recently and i got incredibly unlucky the plastic mad its way to the wires and melted it all off so i was left with stranded wire everywhere hotend unusable and had a hell of a time trying to pop it out. the plactic got into the threas of the holding block had to chisel the hotened and its entire block out. it doesnt help that my 3d printer is now 12 years old and not worth fixing.
I did this and once I heated it up it starting spewing melted plastic fumes:/
Today I was lucky. I preheated to PLA and blob just pulled off.
i didnt have a big print and i checked on my thing and there was a blob, I pannicked so i stopped it quickly and gently ish pulled it off, now theres just strands that I need to clean up
when I saw it I pannicked and pulled it off when i came to check on it and it was still hot
had a small hotend blob, so I went to this video. But it turned out tat I didn't need to as when I heated up the nozzle, it fixed its self.
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So I got the mk4s kit just the other day. You’ll never guess what just happened 😅 (it’s my first 3D printer)
This did not pop up I watch multiple video from 7:00 am searching different things like nozzle melted material around it help, how to fix, how to remove, how to take apart none ever showed this video I get this video after I pull on it after I try to get it off I fucking UA-cam and it’s algorithm, is there way to buy parts or did I just ruin my printer ?
Just happened to me😢 trying to find new parts
But 260 degrees of nozzle don’t melt the parts of the machine? That they are made of petg.
Ya mine practically exploded cuz i left it for a few hours on a large print😅
Works at 2024 😂
I'm very tired of 3d printer bad,
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I will say I am a wine chef in a very small town where nobody cooks for themselves. AKA Mifflin county, Pennsylvania Lewistown to be precise. Just a bunch of lazy people in this town, especially Rich old, lazy people. But I digress. I touch a hot flat top everyday with my bare hands. 350° 400° 450° f. Use tolls when you are messing with a 3D printer. Even if you have calluses have thick skin on your hands from doing a job, it doesn't matter. They will burn just as easy. Also save some money. Cook at home. Go to a butcher and get all your burgers from the butcher. Don't go to Walmart. Don't get a little grocery store. Go to a meat place and get your burgers. Get your steaks because if not you go to Walmart everyday to buy your food and cook it. You're not saving any money and you think you're saving money. Goodbye. Going out to eat you 100%. Aren't we in the restaurant business? Take pride and taking something that cost a little bit. Although now with Joe Biden being our president everything is almost at cost and we can't make money but listen up in Mifflin county prices are going to change. You're going to have to start paying for being lazy.
Don't Panic... but if your thermister is damages, you screwed... just toss the whole thing
I cut mine trying to remove the blob