Oh, it's just a thin strand. Well, that's kind of hard to avoid. Put a spoon in a jar of warm honey, now lift the spoon without having any honey drip off the spoon. Impossible, right? Same thing here. What you could do I guess is to make sure the extruder motor is unpowered (like after power cycling the printer), heat up the head manually and then yank the filament out by hand real fast. That might break the strand off quicker so that it isn't as long.
I've actually started loading filament that way, but in reverse, I find it's faster than letting the machine do it for you.
I take no responsibility for any damage you might cause by doing that however
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Thanks for posting the images and video, I can barely see that really thin strand but the calipers help.
I would think the texturing from the knurled wheel would help in gripping any excess material that might be located inside the bowden tube. Any thoughts? Also, how do you think the thin filaments are generated? Do you think the filament is getting snagged on a deformation to the interior of the hot-end, from the filament as a whole naturally stretching, or something else?
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