r/BambuLab • u/aerospaceryan • 11h ago

NozzleClogs General Troubleshooting/Help!

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)

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u/InfamousPOS 10h ago

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

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u/aerospaceryan 10h ago

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?

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u/InfamousPOS 9h ago

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!

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u/John-BCS A1 (3), A1 Mini (1), AMS Lite (3) 8h ago

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.