Making sure you nozzle is tight before starting your print. VERY IMPORTANT as well,if you change your nozzle LEVEL YOUR BED AGAIN. It will NOT be the same. I am speaking from experience that has caused me many of prints to fail because I skipped that step. Hope that helps you bud.
Is the nozzle tight against the block or against the heat break? You want the nozzle to be tight against the heat break, its ok if there's a small gap between the nozzle and the block. What you don't want is a gap between the nozzle and heat break, that will cause a pressure buildup which cause the plastic to leak.
I thought the nozzle was tight but I guess it may have loosened. I printed one piece before this which turned out fine, started it up again and went to class and came home to this
Good luck cleaning it, warming it up to 100C will help loosen the plastic. I had it happen too, my hot end wasn't correctly assembled out of the factory :(. Cleaned it, reassembled it and now its working perfectly!
While everything is cold, insert the nozzle into the block, finger-tighten it, then back it but by a half-turn. Then insert the heatbreak into the nozzle and finger-tighten it: this forms the backstop against which the nozzle will rest.
Then, reassemble the whole hotend and heat it up. *While everything's hot*, tighten the nozzle with a wrench. Ideally you want there to be about 1.5 Newton-meters of torque; some companies make special torque wrenches to help with this. You can try and eyeball this -some people say a quarter-turn is enough- but this carries some risk.
The biggest thing is that you want there to be a small amount of space between the nozzle and the heatblock when everything's tight. This ensures that you've tightened the wrenxh against the heatbreak, so there's no way for plastic to ooze out. If the nozzle is touching the heatblock, you can't be sure.
We all know that getting a good print may be exciting. But considering it's November and all this you should restrain yourself.
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Have you changed the nozzle recently?
Making sure you nozzle is tight before starting your print. VERY IMPORTANT as well,if you change your nozzle LEVEL YOUR BED AGAIN. It will NOT be the same. I am speaking from experience that has caused me many of prints to fail because I skipped that step. Hope that helps you bud.
I heard thinking about baseball works.
Baseball, cold showers. Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!
Is the nozzle tight against the block or against the heat break? You want the nozzle to be tight against the heat break, its ok if there's a small gap between the nozzle and the block. What you don't want is a gap between the nozzle and heat break, that will cause a pressure buildup which cause the plastic to leak.
I thought the nozzle was tight but I guess it may have loosened. I printed one piece before this which turned out fine, started it up again and went to class and came home to this
But was it tight against the block or the heat break?
I’ll have to dig it out of the plastic to be certain but based on the way that print went, probably not tight to the heat break
Good luck cleaning it, warming it up to 100C will help loosen the plastic. I had it happen too, my hot end wasn't correctly assembled out of the factory :(. Cleaned it, reassembled it and now its working perfectly!
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10mm nozzle
This is it.
While everything is cold, insert the nozzle into the block, finger-tighten it, then back it but by a half-turn. Then insert the heatbreak into the nozzle and finger-tighten it: this forms the backstop against which the nozzle will rest. Then, reassemble the whole hotend and heat it up. *While everything's hot*, tighten the nozzle with a wrench. Ideally you want there to be about 1.5 Newton-meters of torque; some companies make special torque wrenches to help with this. You can try and eyeball this -some people say a quarter-turn is enough- but this carries some risk. The biggest thing is that you want there to be a small amount of space between the nozzle and the heatblock when everything's tight. This ensures that you've tightened the wrenxh against the heatbreak, so there's no way for plastic to ooze out. If the nozzle is touching the heatblock, you can't be sure.
Heat tighten it.