i came to check on my print and this what i see, problem is i can’t remove it, i tried removing the nozzle and everything but i cant, the filament is blocking everything, its PLA+, so its hard as a rock, i don’t know what to do. can i try preheating it with the fan shroud off? or should i do something else?
Heat the nozzle up to 220c and use pliers or tweezers to remove the VERY HOT filament blob, be very careful of the wires for the thermistor (two very thin wires) and hot end (the two white wires in your pic). If it doesn’t all come off use a heat gun and heat the area and again carefully remove with a pair of pliers or tweezers
Yup heatgun is your friend, looks like the filament has backed up through the heatsock. Bit of patience and heat and it will come away, just be careful of those wires or you 'll need to replace the hotend. (I would order a spare anyway just in case, but then again I am printing constantly not once in a while)
bought a microswiss flowtech, ill be installing, its already here, was just waiting for some input on getting that clog removed
Happend to my early in my K1 Max usage and I broke the thermistor wire trying to remove the “blob” so the heater would not work. I ended up physically breaking everything away with the aid of an old soldering iron, and I replaced the Hot End with the Micro Swiss Hot end. It is far superior to the Creality design and I have never had that issue again. The biggest issue I had on the fix was getting the correct HEATSINK for my hot end, since the original was damaged in removal. I ended up getting one from AliExpress, because Creality didnt have one. I found out later that there were multiple Revs of the K1 Max and some had K1C Heatsinks; while the originals shipped had a different heatsink. Mine had the K1C, so a lot of the “fix” info, didnt apply, not to mention, most of it calls for heating the head to remove filament. If the head wont heat up (because of broken wires in the “blob”, you need to use an approach that ends up being destructive to the original Hot end and in my case the heatsink. Hope this helps!