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Bah, My son walked through it with me.. unlinked yes BUT, apparently you have to unlink before making ANY changes to the copy. ended up resetting the printer to new and wiping/reinstalling Cura. now the sync works.

Cura and printer are logged in. copy exiting working material profile and only change color.. unlink.. sync never finishes.. the little circle arrow just keeps going around.. even after an hour. I'm at wits end.

Home Depot doesn't cut it.... ASA filament

ok, I printed ASA today, it went OK. The core temp increased as soon as the job started but didnt really get to full temp before the purge started. Still, it made it ok. This time the job started with the cores empty. It kinda look like when I had the trouble before the core had previously used the same material and so it didnt need the time it took to load material from the station.. hmmm.....

Really.. seems like they used to once upon a time... anyway.... I went back to PLA and it behaved normally. Once this print is done I'll retry the ASA and see what happens. It was weird to watch the temp chart just getting started to heat and have the printer kick off doing the purge.... when I went back to PLA it waited until the temp was up...

I have to wonder: are the commands that get the printer ready to print (like purging) generated in Cura? or are those steps in the firmware for the machine?

S5 Probundle - about 4 years old - firmware 8.3.1.0 Cura 5.8.0 Core1 - ASA Core2 - Breakaway Ever since I've had this printer it would purge both cores at the beginning of a print. Now, it will still go through the motions for core1 BUT it doesnt heat up so, no extrusion. while that's happening core2 will start heating up and when it's turn comes, it purges normally. By the time core1 needs to prints it's heated up and will extrude, sometimes not very well. a couple of weeks ago i printed PLA on core1 (nothing on core2) and it worked fine. I cant imagine what happened that would cause core1 to start purging before it's ready?

Just get yourself a blink netcam, load the app and go.. no need to start hacking the printer firmware and you get sound too.

Easy for you, Difficult for me with my fat fingers, but I got it. There's actually a much better video on youtube:

Dont know why, other can see it.. hmmm anyway, I followed advice from monroe7 and used a solder iron to melt the mess little-by-little until it was gone. turns out the only thing the plastic was adhered to was the silicon membrane so it only took 15 minutes or so to clear it. Now I gotta remember how to put a new membrane in it 🙂

OK! I got the printcores out - now I'm faced with clearing out the head. any ideas? i'd like to take the "door" off but there's some wires going to it. anyone have some expert advice here?

Ya, its a Pro5 bundle. thanks for telling me about the 3 dots. I'll try it but honestly I think I'll be replacing the whole carriage...

My print failed yesterday - came unstuck from the print surface and rode around on the head. In the mean time, the filaments kept feeding and by the time I caught it, filled the head with melted filament. now its cooled and I cant even lower the front cover. is there anyway I can just heat the cores up and see if I can clean it out?

You're right, it doesnt always work, in fact, I've never been able to make that work. but here's what DOES work. turn off all the power, printer and material station both. open the feed on the station the material is in. open the material station, cut and remover the spool of the offending material. remove the clamp on the print core and put the bowden tube out. now carefully and slowly pull the material out from the bowden tube until it clears the entire material path. take the cover off the feeder to assure it;s clean. turn the powers back on and assure that the printer knows the build surface has been cleared.. you may have to select "change material" so the printer will be ready to reload. and at that point you can reload the material I agree, the firmware really needs both to allow all this easily, AND to allow purging the printcore independently so one can tell if the core is good without all the cold pull, hot pull, cleaner filmament mumbo jumbo Maybe it's too much for those netherland engineers to grasp?

In Cura, under "Material" look for: "Build Volume Temperature" Its the first parameter, you might need to change the visibility setting in preferences to see it. I set it for 50.0 C. You can set it for 0 which is supposed to not try to control the build volume temperature but I'm able to get higher temps using 50. I don't know what setting it to 0 actually accomplishes. I don't think blocking the fan is a good idea. I used to use a raft of breakaway material and hairspray on the glass (glue stick is SO neanderthal 🙂) But the plastic coated build surface works a LOT better for me without any other adhesion witchcraft. WamBam PEX coated build plate system ( fits the S5 - there are other sizes for other printers)