Hello, Ive come to my wits and decided to be publicly embarrassed probably. I have a Prusa I3V with a Titan Aero fitted onto it.
Everything was working perfectly fine, using Esun Pla+ at 215 Degrees, printed a file with Zero flaws. Amazing results!
Well, my excitement came crashing down. Just after i did that print, i decided to do another print, same exact settings in Slic3r, no changes.
I started up the print, and just as my perimeters were printing, my filament just stopped extruding, grinding.
Simple, Too much tension, or a possible clog.
Backed out my filament, snipped the filament to a fresh piece of surface, and reinserted, reset my tension, and cleaned off the drive. Ran some filament through the extruder, no issues. Ran about 100mm without any issue. Restarted a print, same issue, wont extrude, just gets stuck.
I tried my previous successful print, same issue. Tried disabling retraction, same issue.
Raised my Z, extruded just fine.
Im at a loss and stuck.
Prints cannot print, but i can extrude manually on the printer just fine.
Can anyone help me out?
Have you tried running the print with no filament loaded?
You could have a loose connection or failing wires on the stepper motor. When the extruder is lowered to print the first layer, is there still plenty of slack on the wires or is it pulling on the wires? I would try manual extrude (at bed level) where the print is, to rule this out. It’s also possible you might have the nozzle too low for filament to extrude but you seem like you would have figured that out already if it was the problem.
Have you compared the manual extrusion command to one from the print’s gcode?
Did you adjust the steps/mm when you installed the titan? Did you save these settings (m500) and verify changes (m501)?
Everything normal with the extruder temp when the print starts?
That’s the only obvious stuff I can think of.
I have no first hand experience with Prusa machines but I use slic3r and a lot of E3d parts.
Hope that’s helpful
-Jesse
I apologize if this sounds stupid, but when you say you ran 100mm through the extruder, did you mean only the extruder, or down through the heat block and out the nozzle? If you can extrude through the nozzle, then I agree with others, that maybe the bed is way too close.
Thank you for the reply guys.
When i extruded 100mm of filament, i marked 120mm and extruded 100mm (via prontrface) to verify it actually extruded that amount.
I am curious as to whether the bed is too close, that is one thing i am going to look at tonight.
I did adjust the steps/mm which was before the successful print, and the temperature seems fine.
215 doesnt present much “gooping” but 220 runs out of the head like crazy.
I have a gut feeling it might be being too close to the bed, as that is the ONLY thing i didnt check, weird i know…
Ill try these out when i get off work tonight and report back.
Thank you guys for replying and helping out!
Like i said. I would publicly embarass myself.
They ONE thing i didnt do, check my bed was too close.
Printing like a dream now.
Thank you guys for all the help
