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Thanks, that makes sense. What kind of layer height would be appropriate for the 0.8 nozzle? Believe it or not, it has been throwing up both errors, that’s why I thought it so weird, given that it prints perfectly with the 0.4 nozzle/0.1 layer height.

Apologies if this has been asked and answered, I couldn’t find anything similar on here. I’m using an Ultimaker 2, Olsson Block installed and up to date Cura version. I’ve always printed with the default 0.4 nozzle with a 0.1 layer height. I decided to have a try with the 0.8 nozzle and set the layer height to 0.3, leaving the other settings as they were. Every time i’ve tried to print, I get the first layer down then it freezes with a heater error or temp sensor error. I’ve stripped the print head down twice and am sure everything is connected as it should be. I swapped the nozzle back to a 0.4 and returned the settings appropriately. This prints perfectly. Any ideas as to what’s causing the error with the larger nozzle folks?

Thanks guys, yes I traced it back and indeed it was the other end of the cable. Put it back together and it's working perfectly now. Thanks for the assist!

hi, I've been spending this afternoon freshening up my UM2, replacing Bowden tube, coupler,heater cartridge and temp. sensor (and cursing the sadistic designer!) Got everything done ok but I appear to have dislodged a connector from the board, a orange and brown wired one. There appears to be an identical unattached connector about halfway up the sleeve to the head. I haven't pulled at it for fear of disconnecting something else. Can anybody advise where they should go?

Thanks for all the help guys. I'm using colorfabb stuff so hopefully that won't be the problem. It's actually printing quite well now, not perfect but acceptable after I did the workaround. I'm pretty much convinced that it's the coupler so next time the issue comes up, and there's always a next time, I'll replace it as a spare hot end pack came with the machine. Thanks again guys, it's a great community here.

Hi guys, I thought that I had been pretty fortunate in not having major issues with the UM2 after using it for the last 4 or 5 months. Unfortunately i'm encountering a strange and persistent underextrusion problem. I started getting really bad prints about a month ago. It would print either really badly or sometimes just part print. It is no fun coming back to it 6 hours into a 10 hour print to find it happily whizzing away in mid air with nothing coming out! After reading some very helpful advice on here I increased the nozzle temp. to 230 and, sure enough, I went back to having pretty good prints. For about a week anyway. The quality started slipping again until this is what I was ending up with. It had pretty much the consistency of an ice cream cone and obviously useless. I bumped up the temp to 235 and got a perfect print of a different object. (didn't want to chance the first one again as it was 6 hours) Thinking that I had solved it I set up another print. Absolutely nothing was being extruded. After around 8 atomic pulls I am still having no luck with it. When I manually extrude, the filament flows ok and will extrude with very little pressure although once I start into the change material cycle the machine can't seem to extrude any and I get the loud clicking from the feeder. I have noticed that I do have to jiggle the filament about a little bit to get it into the nozzle. if I try a print and am not quick enough to abort, the filament gets ground down like so: And I have to end up snipping the damaged bit off and pulling the filament out by hand, which is a waste. The end which was in the printing head seems to be intact which makes me think that it isn.t even getting into the nozzle. It just strikes me as odd that I can have a run of good prints and suddenly start getting crappy ones or none at all! Here are the settings that I've been using Temp. 235 100% Fan 60 layer height 0.1 shell thickness 0.8 retraction - min. travel 1.5 enable combing All min. extrusion before retracting 0.02 z hop 0 Bottom/Top thickness 0.6 Fill density 20% Print Speed 50 I do have to add that I am using only one of the blue clips, at the printing block end of the tube. Would this realistically make a difference? I'd certainly appreciate some opinions as I've totally run out of ideas. My next move is to dismantle the block and see if anything is warped in there blocking the filament from getting in to the nozzle. If anybody has any ideas that doesn't involve dismantling the block i'd be very grateful! Thanks.