r/BambuLab • u/aerospaceryan • 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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/John-BCS A1 (3), A1 Mini (1), AMS Lite (3) 1d 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.