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· Material is not passing through the nozzle
260°C is rather high for PLA, if this happen again, you might want to stay around 220°C ish. At 260 °C PLA might start to deteriorate and possibly make your clog even worse.
If this doesn't work, I've had good luck with heating up the nozzle and using something small enough to poke through the nozzle. Possible options: hypodermic needle (preferably a blunt one if you can get one), acupuncture needles, a micro drill bit or even the high E string of your trusted eGuitar. For a 0,4 mm nozzle, i'll usually go with a poking thing at around 0,3 - 0,35 mm in diameter
If this fails as well, I guess you could try to remove the nozzle and see if you can clean it out once you got it removed or replace with a new nozzle. Instructions on how to remove the nozzle depend on your printer model.
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260°C is rather high for PLA, if this happen again, you might want to stay around 220°C ish. At 260 °C PLA might start to deteriorate and possibly make your clog even worse.
Standard procedure for your average nozzle clog would be to do an "atomic", as described here: https://ultimaker.com/en/resources/149-atomic-method. Might need a couple of repetitions to help with severe clogs.
If this doesn't work, I've had good luck with heating up the nozzle and using something small enough to poke through the nozzle. Possible options: hypodermic needle (preferably a blunt one if you can get one), acupuncture needles, a micro drill bit or even the high E string of your trusted eGuitar. For a 0,4 mm nozzle, i'll usually go with a poking thing at around 0,3 - 0,35 mm in diameter
If this fails as well, I guess you could try to remove the nozzle and see if you can clean it out once you got it removed or replace with a new nozzle. Instructions on how to remove the nozzle depend on your printer model.
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