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Nozzle cleaning

Posted by Replace 
Nozzle cleaning
May 29, 2017 12:15AM
A tip:

sometimes my nozzle gets clogged, resulting in jammed filament and lost print.
To resolve that, or to prevent that, I now clean the nozzle before every long print and it helps.

I use acupuncture needle to do so,

My acupuncturist gave me a set of 0.3mm needles.

When clogged, I heat up the nozzle to 250 degrees , lower the table, remove the filament from the feeder and insert the needle from the bottom completely into the nozzle.
This works. When move it up and down a few times and retract all the way, you will have molten plastic on the needle, which removes easy when cold, by pulling it through a set of closed pliers.

Warning: be carefull, they are very sharp and you easyly hurt yourself in the proces (also by the hot nozzle).

Thomas


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