Hello together,
I've got an Ultimaker 3 Extended and I'm suffering from constant nozzle clogging.
This is my current situation:
Printer: Ultimaker 3 Extended
Layer Height: 0,2 mm
Material 1: FormFutura EasyFil ABS (255 °C, AA Core)
Material 2: FormFutura LimoSolve HIPS (240 °C, AA Core) as Support
Printing Speed: 60 - 90 mm/s
Slicer: Simplify3D
Infill: 50%
Bed: 80 °C, BuildTak
Ultitop & Front Door
I'm printing large parts with a printing time between 10 and 20h, and at every second or third print, the nozzle (mainly Nozzle 1 with ABS) clogs. I've been printing a smaller part with ~ 6h for one week now and every single time the nozzle clogged.
I don't want to use Ultimaker ABS, because my customer needs more different colors than UM offers for ABS and I would really like to stay with one manufacturer of filament.
So far I've only heard good things from FormFutura, has anyone of you had some bad experience with it?
These are the actions I've taken so far against the clogging, with no result at all:
- place sponge in front of extruder to clean filament
- tried different extruder tensions
- oiling filament
- cleaning bowden tube
- cleaning extruder (complete disassembled & using compressed air)
- using temperatures between 240 - 270 °C (5 °C steps)
- slower printing
- replacing both printcores
So... has anyone an other idea what I could do with this?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: I forgot to mention that I'm using a German RepRap X400 since two days for the same work. It's got a Direct Drive (DD3) and I'm using FormFutura (1,75 mm) ABS there, too. So far no issues with that one, so I'm pretty sure it's not the filament itself.