Feed rate issue

[rburnham 0]

I keep having feed rate issues. The knurled bolt keeps eating away at the material. I cant even print anything with out it happening. I have tried cleaning the bolt, two different materials from two different manufacturers, helping feed it, different temperatures. What am I doing wrong?

thank you for the help.

Rob

[approx 0]

I keep having feed rate issues. The knurled bolt keeps eating away at the material. I cant even print anything with out it happening. I have tried cleaning the bolt, two different materials from two different manufacturers, helping feed it, different temperatures. What am I doing wrong?

thank you for the help.

Rob

Hi Rob,

- If the tension screw is too tight, the filament will eat away at the material. Check out the following videos from Jeorgen....

Filament pressure:

http://db.tt/zVcKL9q0

Bolt tightening:

http://db.tt/j95qMlaQ

Filament-Bowden-Peek transition 1:

http://db.tt/FVAU7hiH

Filament-Bowden-Peek transition 2:

http://db.tt/Ag7OpbbT

Filament-Bowden-Peek transition 3:

http://db.tt/Kd3kPPrg

- If the diameter of the filament is greater than the inner diamter of the bowden tube, you will get a jam at the cold end. I had

this problem with the stock UM filament (silver one) that i received with the kit. Also, if the bolt eats away at the filament, it can deform it, thus causing a

jam at the cold end

- Are you printing at high enough temperature? The temperature reading that I get is off by 25-30 degrees (which tested with a multimeter). So when I

was printing at 205 degrees (it was really about 180 degress) which was causing very little extrusion and filament stripping at the cold end. Eventually when I was printing at real temp of 220-225 then things started to flow better..

- Is the hot end of your bowden jammed? If your fialment diamter is the right size..and at a high enough temp( 230 degrees) can you easily

push the filament manually? If not, then your hot end of the bowden might be jammed..

[rburnham 0]

Thank you for the feed back.