Filament blob on K1C, how to repair?

Flagship K Series Creality Flagship K1 & K1C
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Hi all, Ive just run into the infamous BLOB on my K1C. I was doing a tricky print and only caught it about 20 minutes into the print.

Ive look everywhere online and cannot seem to find what would be the best course of action to get my printer running again.

I started to disassemble the head to to a manual clean out of all the parts with heat but it seems creality does not want me to go any further than taking the fan cover off as all the connections have this silicone-like glue holding them in place.

My questions are:

  1. Is this the best course of action to save my little K1C from THE BLOB?
  2. Should I battle the connector glue to remove them?
  3. What is the best way to remove said connector glue?
  4. If needed what parts do I need to replace?

I will attatch pictures of the even below, the black is the fillament and the offwhite paste is the connector glue im talking about.

Also would this fall under any sort of warranty replacement or is this expected printer repairs?

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I think the glue is only for Creality to be triple sure that the connections won’t fall out during fast prints. When I disassembled it the glue was not really strong abut the actual connector is a bit stubborn. If the blob was really bad then you probably would just need a replacement hotend.