Hi,
I have had my printer for just over 2 years now and up till now I have had no problems. However, now the extruder prints for a little while during a print and then it starts to make clunking noise to the point that the filament is not extruding at all.
Can anyone please help me fix this problem? I have tried unloading and reloading the filament and cleaning the nossle and nothing has worked.
Cheers in advance.
UPDATE:
Hey guys
I juat checked the extruder and I think it is the gears. Here are some pictures of the gears. Do you guys think they need replacing?
Thanks
Same thing happened to me when I bought it from Best Buy. Luckily mine happened within the 1 year warranty I got from them so I got my money back. I used that money to buy a Flashforge Creator Pro instead, and have been much happier.
Sorry that doesn’t help your situation, just sharing my similar experience.
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There is a little metal idler wheel that helps keep the filament in contact with the drive wheel. It’s aluminum on a steel shaft so it wears. A solution I found was to drill out the back of the wheel to fit a bearing that will slide on the shaft. That fix alone got me another two years with my davinci. I 3d printed an idler wheel instead of machining my existing wheel right away. I can’t remember the bearing name but it has a 4mm inner diameter and an 8mm outer diameter.
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Likely the worn out Idler wheel as stated already.
Low heat or plugged or partially plugged nozzle hole, are 2 other possibilities.
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This could be a lot of things.
1) could be the gear has warn away.
2) could be dirt on the gear how it pushes against the plastic
3) printing temptures / feed rate.
4) lack of tension so it’s not gripping the plastic
5) nozzle isent 100% clear.
6) check that your filament is ok and it’s not lumpy in parts.
Somthing like this I would do a “deep clean” on it. the head nozzle gears. Reset to default try another plastic and just do a test cube.
My first ever 3D printed was a makibox would use to click and do this because the feeder would “fail”/ loose “pressure” and fail. Or from the head not being hot enough or over heating. Then when I use there cheep plastic I could get prints but once I took the cheep plastic out the head would always be blocked up lol.
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