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At the same time you might want to order some PLA from a local distributor. Germany has some interesting filaments - google "PLA45" and "PLA90".
Once PLA breaks in the bowden it will fail on a retraction soon after because occasionally that crack will get stuck in the print head well above the hot zone and then the print just fails because the filament is ground to dust at the feeder.
If you have several spools of PLA it's easy to test it for being brittle. Bend it until it breaks. Repeat with good and bad filament. The difference is obvious!
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This is faulty material. There was a recent bad batch of UM PLA. Contact UM immediately:
http://support.ultimaker.com
At the same time you might want to order some PLA from a local distributor. Germany has some interesting filaments - google "PLA45" and "PLA90".
Once PLA breaks in the bowden it will fail on a retraction soon after because occasionally that crack will get stuck in the print head well above the hot zone and then the print just fails because the filament is ground to dust at the feeder.
If you have several spools of PLA it's easy to test it for being brittle. Bend it until it breaks. Repeat with good and bad filament. The difference is obvious!
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