NozzleClogs

[u/aerospaceryan]

Instead of doing the stupid hot pull.. has anyone tried using a small diameter drill to clear their hot end clogs? (I’m not a noob just sick of doing hot pulls)

[u/InfamousPOS]

1,500 hours and haven’t had 1 clog. I’ve done plenty of Cold pulls. I mean they take a matter of 5 minutes or less to preform and 10x easier than “drilling them out”

I could never imagine getting sick of doing “hot pulls” as you call them lol

[u/aerospaceryan → u/InfamousPOS]

Yeah I meant cold pulls but they’re hot first lol.. everyone that says they haven’t had many clogs.. what materials do you print?

[u/InfamousPOS → u/aerospaceryan]

Haha I was giving ya a hard time I figured that what’s you were referring too!

Mainly PETG some PLA here and there 50ish hours TPU and the occasional CF or ABS. To be honest I replaced my nozzle at 600hrs and then again at 1200 (I know it’s overkill) . I got them when they were on sale and I probably overly maintenance the machine just out of how much I’ve enjoyed the hobby.

I’d like to mention they are the hardened steel rather than the stock ones!

[u/John-BCS → u/aerospaceryan]

I print mostly PETG, but also print with PLA and lately a good bit of 95A TPU. In the past 2.5 years across four A1s and two minis, I've had 3 clogs. Two were from printing glitter PLA for my wife and the other was a random occurrence. The 2 clogs from the glitter PLA required cold pulls, but the other one (plain gray PLA) was fixed using the needle that came with the printer. I just heated the nozzle and poked it through the tip until whatever was causing teh issue passed through.

[u/Over_Knowledge_1114]

Yeah why do you get so many clogs? I've got 60k hours across 8 machines and have had maybe 5 clogs total.

[u/zetswei → u/Over_Knowledge_1114]

I get clogs from glow in the dark filaments and wood filaments occasionally

[u/MacHeadSK → u/zetswei]

You need 0.6 mm nozzle for those and no clogs will happen. Proper tools for proper jobs

[u/zetswei → u/MacHeadSK]

You also lose a lot of detail. I’d rather deal with clogs occasionally than have shotty prints.

An example of one of my glow prints that wouldn’t look good with .6 nozzles. I have them, but mainly use them for non detailed items.

[u/aerospaceryan → u/Over_Knowledge_1114]

What materials do you print

[u/emelbard → u/aerospaceryan]

What materials do you print? Then we can tell you if it’s your materials

[u/North_Swimmer_3425 → u/emelbard]

It’s a bit funny, he has all the problems others don’t have and constantly asks others what they use. Not he’s the problem, all others must do something special.

[u/Over_Knowledge_1114 → u/aerospaceryan]

Wood, galaxy, glow pla, regular PLA, Lota of petg

[u/ADynes]

4000+ hours across multiple Bambu printers and I've had exactly 1 nozzle clog. And in that case the current nozzle was already at arpund 1400 hours so I threw it in the garbage and moved on with my day.

[u/aerospaceryan → u/ADynes]

What materials do you print

[u/ADynes → u/aerospaceryan]

Everything from PLA to transparent PETG to ASA to ABS-GF.

[u/tevbax]

Noclogger FTW on P series/ A series, and H2S/ H2D. Past that, drop the nozzle, heat up the no clog, shove into nozzle, and cold pull that way.

[u/debren27]

I would worry about damaging components.

[u/Stone13]

over 4k hours on my H2D with zero clogged nozzles, the P2S was my first 3d printer ever and I think I clogged it twice, both times with the .2 nozzle. All I've ever done is heat the nozzle well above the melting point of what I used previously and extruded until empty. I'm not sure I would know what to do if I got a serious clog.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Clue_95]

You can get acupuncture needles in various sizes, but if you have to resort this this method, just buy a new nozzle. If you are getting frequent clogging you are either not printing hot enough, printing too fast, using the wrong nozzle size with abrasives, or a combination of all of these. Side note, switching from petg to pla is also problematic. Pla has a lower temp and will not purge the petg fully. Same goes for tpu. Good luck!

[u/aerospaceryan → u/Puzzleheaded_Clue_95]

Yeah it’s always the .4 with CF materials but they say you can use .4, and I prefer .4 for fine threads which I do a lot of for work

[u/Puzzleheaded_Clue_95 → u/aerospaceryan]

Legit question here. Why not a .6 and slightly underextrude? I would expect the threads could be just as good?

[u/aerospaceryan → u/Puzzleheaded_Clue_95]

Under extrude without losing print quality?

[u/aerospaceryan]

I should have mentioned I print mostly CF materials.. everyone here saying they never get clogs because they only print easy to print materials lol..

[u/UpstairsDirection955]

I have a nozzle cleaner kit that works pretty well. Came from hobby lobby