Reply To: Hobby Weekender 15/03/2019 – The 2000's

[blinky465 17028xp 1]

@horati0nosebl0wer – I think the issue is not so much at the hot end, but heat creeping up the filament into the “cold end”; my extruding stepper motor is directly above the heater block and it’s getting really, really hot (almost burn your fingers-to-touch hot). So when the filament is being driven through the gear, instead of pushing it towards the hot end, it’s just going all melt-y and squidgy and not actually being pushed forward.

I may be wrong. I’ve got my eye on a Prusa i3 clone on fleabay. But before I go crazy, I think I’ll get some PLA and try that (instead of ABS) and see if I can’t get *something* that resembles more than spaghetti out of it!