Hello! I’m roughly a month into my 3d printing journey and recently came across an issue that won’t go away. The issue is best exemplified by this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCFOI5kUWQg Filament gets stuck in the “sock” and pushes the sock down causing the print to get stuck to the nozzle and ruining every print. Please help!!
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Please state what printer you are using. SE / KE / CoreXZ.
Apologies, I am using CoreXZ.
Hello @Tofu …! 
Welcome to the Creality Forum…! 
Make sure all the bolts on the hotend are tight. Many times whether from heating and cooling or just shaking around these bolts get loose.
You’ll have to take the silicone sock off to check some of those bolts… Don’t want those coming loose… 
I just went through and tightened all the bolts I could find, yet I got the same issue. Do I need to disassemble the hotend in order to tighten the rest?
More bolts under there… 
Watch this and get familiar with all the parts…
Tightened all the bolts again, still doesn’t work. Any other ideas before I just bring it to someone who knows what they’re doing?
Probably bring it to someone to fix it as it’s hard to diagnose what the issue is without being there watching it…
As for me I’d remove the sock just to be able to see where it comes out while it’s extruding or printing.
It’s obviously a common problem from the looks of it, I had a major lob of death too and I have only had the KE a month… It’s ended up me buying a complete new hot end unit and because you hot glue all the connectors to the header board I now need a new one of them, due to that hot glue not coming off easy and destroyed the boards connector… Purhaps you could make it easy to find a
Original Hotend Adapter Plate E3V3-Nozzle PCBA Breakout Module Board Replacement Compatible with Creality Ender 3 V3 KE 3D Printer here in the UK - I cannot find one anywhere and now have a machine that I cannot use… And I have spent money on filament etc that is now useless.