Fourth try on a print. Tried to add some adhesive to the bed to get it to stick better. Watched the first two layers and went to bed. Woke up to a printer on strike.

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    As a seethingly jealous ender 3 peasant who is still spending most of his time keeping my printer working with kludges and duct tape; it’s nice to know Bambu owners are human after all and still run into problems.

    Hope you get it sorted and are back printing soon! 🖖

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      Haha, my ender is printing at 20mm/s to avoid slippage, with the bed scraper jammed into to filament guide to make it actually grab and feed, and at 105% extrusion, but it’s still chugging along. After a few restarts to get the fan spinning, that it.

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      Manged to get an ender 3V2 a few years ago, auto bed levelling is a must have feature if you intend to spend more time using your printer than calibrating or fixing it. After that masking tape fixes all adhesion problems.

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        I eventually turned off auto bed leveling because it just doesn’t help much. You still have to manually level the bed, and the correction it adds is kinda negligible. At least the BL Touch does help with the manual leveling process.

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        I must have been lucky with my Ender 3 - I only leveled it every few weeks or less. Very solid printer, had it 5 years.

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      I feel you - I ran an Ender 3 for 5 years but now I have an A1 and honestly don’t miss all the endless tinkering. Learned a hell of a lot in the process. No complaints about the Ender, it was a rock solid machine - now it has a new life as a laser engraver, courtesy of the Creality 1.6w laser attachment which works nice.

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      Your fuck up is buying an ender…lol Every problem thread in this sub is about a shit ender

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    I’ve been doing 3D printing regularly for a decade or so now… Never had a blob.

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    I’ve run into adhesion problems when the room gets colder.

    works 99% of the time, but when ambient temp goes below 70°F everything starts failing.

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    I don’t see a beginning of a print anywhere, did it not even manage to do the first layer?

    If that’s the case, a word of advice to always be present for the first 2 layers of your prints, at least for the longer ones.

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    I’ve a massive blob like this one time when the nozzle got clogged and the extruder created enough pressure to push the filament through the threads of the hotend block. It was on an Anet A8 and I ripped a lead off the thermistor trying to get the plastic off so I ended up replacing the entire hotend.

    You can try to heat up the hotend to a fair bit under the melting point of the filament to where it’s soft and somewhat pliable but not runny or sticky and then trying to peel it off. Though you’d risk damaging any leads to the thermistor, heater, or your hands if you’re not careful.

    Good luck on fixing the printer and getting back to printing again. 3D printing is a really time consuming hobby

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      Thanks. I am really frustrated with myself for letting this happen. Pulled everything apart and recovered most of everything, but managed to damage the clip that holds the extruder in place, so now I get to learn how to do surgery and replace the entire assembly. I wish I had gotten a bit more time before having to do a major repair…

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    I had that happen once. it just bout pushed the fan off the head since the clips are broken but it fits good enough™️

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    Atleast it didnt get wedged in the heat sink… Thats what happeneed to my last blob, had to replace the entire hot end.

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      looks at all the replacement parts that came with both my Bambu printers and the extra nozzles I ordered at the same time

      What are you even talking about?

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        Did they include a new hotend or can you get one? I look on their site and see nothing for that.

        Edit: I looked under Spare Parts and they weren’t there, but I see them under Accessories. And for $13, I’d sure as hell buy one when I got the printer. Along with a bunch of other parts, they’re quite reasonably priced.