I’m experianceing trouble with my extruder making a clicking noise and not extruding material.
It started a while back, I changed filament several times with no effect. I swapped my nozzle which has hlped a while now, but now it’s back to the clicking. Filament should be fine as i’s quite new and I’ve also swapped it between printers and it worked as normal on my other printer.
My next step would be to change the extruder assembly. Seems strange that it would fail so early. I’ve only been able to print around 2-3 rolls of filament so far.
I switched to using the creality slicer instead of cura since it has more options. Now, I print quite a bit faster. So what I found. The problem is still there and it will ocationally make the clocking noise throughout the print.
While printing infill it’s more likely to make the noise from that I’ve seen so far. My infill also seems to be underextruded by the looks of it. walls on my grid infill has small gaps on the lines along the vertical axis.
Although, while printing quite a bit faster, while speeding along pushing quite a bit of filament through the nozzle there’s nos problems. So it seems not to be related to print/extrution speed. That would indicate it’s not a clog, right? A clog should make it worse as it tries to push more filament out right?.
My last thaught is the filemant being the issue. Maybe not wet filament but inconsistant diameter. The extruder cant be adjusted and has a narrow tollerance on these once. My other printer is not direct drive but an ender 3 v2 neo featuring the extruder with a push arm. The arm has greater range of motion which would allow for a fluctuating diameter, the V3 dosent have that range of motion in the extruder.
I’ll be buying a new extruder assembly to try out and some new filament from another brand. Now I’m useing Addnotrh E-pla. I’ll try out the hyper pla from creality and Pollyterra pla.
As for the issue with underextrution on the infill, If it’s underextrution that is, any input on that would be great as well.
Hi
Have you adjusted the spring tension on the extruder yet?
Also you can get clicking whilst the extruder is retracting, if so limiting the retraction distance can help.
Sorry I cannot be more specific but I have a V3 SE and your process may differ.
I don’t think I have an adjustment screw unfortunetly. I’ve had the extruder out a couple of times checking and cleaning it and didn’t find any way to adjust it. It comes and goes randomly. Just now it faled to print a couple of layers than started to print normally/got filament out like normally at least.
Like it strugles to get some parts of the filament string through, than when it finally gets it thgough it starts to print normally again.
I hope it’s just the filament that has an inconsistant diameter so swapping to a new brand helps…
Not sure but here is a possibility: Have you checked the heat from your stepper motor. I found that mine got too hot and softened the filament in my extruder and thereby causing the filament not to extrude. I ordered a new stepper motor but being impatient, I tried adding a fan to cool the motor, It works perfectly. I now have a spare motor in stock for future possibility!!