Hi Didier
Thanks!
Currently I still feel like a kid on Christmas evening having opened all my presents to early
I did not wait for it to slowly feed the fillament, I followed the step by step description all the way when setting it up, inkluding speeding up the feeding after the material was feeded to the bowden.
I tried doing the 'amomic cleaning' two times, but still experienced the same.... that was before I posted.
After that I tried cleaning it again and changed filament to a blue PLA, and then it started printing - not sure what is wrong with the black roll I got along with the UM2, as it looked normal?!
Anyways I loaded my model (6 hours print time in high quality), and left it after 2 hours, and it was still printing - great!
But when I got back to it this morning, it had stopped halfway through, and there was just a big chunk of PLA right under the nozzle, the heat was still 220/60, the bed was right under the nozzle and the fans at full speed... so back to being concerned/doubtfull!
What could be the reason for this?
Now I've done a new atomic cleaning, altered the model to low quality, and started it again.... hopefully with more succes.
...I would really like to get a my first piece printed without anymore hazzle!!!
Kind regards Taras
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DidierKlein 729
Hi Taras,
Welcome to the forum
As this is the first use of the printer i think we can probably rule out a clogged nozzle.
What can be is that the filament was grinded a bit during the material insertion, maybe try to change the material, check how the filament looks like, if you see anything abnormal (really flatten of a portion of filament that was grinded) cut the filament and insert the filament again.
One thing i didn't understand the first time is that when you insert the filament, it goes very slowly, you don't have to wait until the filament has reached the head to go to the next step. Once you see the filament arriving in the bowden (on top of the feeder), click the control button and it will speed up.
If you have trouble getting the filament out (might happen if stuck in the bowden), try to pull it by hand when the feeder is running backwards (to pull it out).
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