Hi so my printer was fine until oneday a print finished with some under extrusion, when I check it seems to extruded in little beads (which combine into blobs as seen in the photo) during prints but not when told to extrude through octo print. Brand new filiment so humidity isn’t an issue, I’ve tried leveling the bed (glass with bltouch), using glue stick, cleaning the nozzle, I cleaned the hot end, sniped down the bowing tube and made sure it was flush with the nozzle. I’m at my whits end and am about to start praying to the omnisiere for divine intervention. Any help would be appreciated.

  • Steelmonkey@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    So the extruder seems fine I releveled the bed for the 20th time and even opened the hot end and cleaned it just incase, same issues. The filiment is pla + not glow in the dark but maybe the nozzle is worn out I’ll order new ones from Amazon and check back in when I can

    • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      That extrusion seems awfully fat for a 0.4mm nozzle. But also probably shows that your extruder is pushing mostly fine.

      If it’s a silk filament, however, they tend to die-swell much more than others.

      Stop “leveling the bed”. If you’ve leveled it once, it’s probably good enough - the problem is most definitely in your extruder or somewhere else.

      What extruder are you using (the thing that pushes the plastic?) You’ve shown your hot end, but not the business end of the thing that feeds the filament.