First thing this morning I had to take apart one of the filament feeding units (AMS) for my 3D printer… hunting for a piece of filament that broke off inside.
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First thing this morning I had to take apart one of the filament feeding units (AMS) for my 3D printer… hunting for a piece of filament that broke off inside.
This lil buddy caused a *lot* of trouble … but it’s the risk of working with so many different colours and types of filaments. I’m always changing them out. It was bound to happen after over 5k print hours!
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First thing this morning I had to take apart one of the filament feeding units (AMS) for my 3D printer… hunting for a piece of filament that broke off inside.
This lil buddy caused a *lot* of trouble … but it’s the risk of working with so many different colours and types of filaments. I’m always changing them out. It was bound to happen after over 5k print hours!
@britt TFW your printer tries to do twist flavor.
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@britt TFW your printer tries to do twist flavor.
@macmanx LOL! Funny thing is… this is a three colour filament! The other side is red. It makes all my ‘RGB’ stuff
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@macmanx LOL! Funny thing is… this is a three colour filament! The other side is red. It makes all my ‘RGB’ stuff
@britt Well that’s how far behind I am in my 3D printer knowledge then, I had no clue such a thing existed!
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@britt Well that’s how far behind I am in my 3D printer knowledge then, I had no clue such a thing existed!
@macmanx it’s totally okay! A lot of folks don’t know how the multi colour material looks before it’s printed.
I have a whole collection of fancy dual and tri colour stuff. It is getting crowded with filament rolls in the print room.
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First thing this morning I had to take apart one of the filament feeding units (AMS) for my 3D printer… hunting for a piece of filament that broke off inside.
This lil buddy caused a *lot* of trouble … but it’s the risk of working with so many different colours and types of filaments. I’m always changing them out. It was bound to happen after over 5k print hours!
@britt I had this happen once and it _suuucked_ . Is yours like mine where you have to remove the entire inside to get at the PTFE tubes underneath?
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@britt I had this happen once and it _suuucked_ . Is yours like mine where you have to remove the entire inside to get at the PTFE tubes underneath?
@astrovore *yup* I have a few of the original AMS’s and they’re unfun to deal with if there is an issue. This time I had to take apart the entire hub inside/underneath to get to it, it sadly wasn’t in one of the PTFE tubes. This particular machine has already seen 5 warranty claims, with two of them in the last 2 weeks. It’s named ‘Derpy’ for a reason lol
