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not extruding enough material

Posted by fatesalign 
not extruding enough material
May 27, 2015 11:12AM
Hello everyone. I am completely at a loss. For a good while, my printer was working great, but a couple weeks ago, it started printing too little material. I tried everything. Cleaning the hot end, replacing the motor etc. The only thing I thought it could be was the cheap Chinese hot end. Well, I purchased a wade extruder, as well as anew e3d v6lite, and it still extruded way too little material. I just don't understand. I'm using Repetier host. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Re: not extruding enough material
May 27, 2015 11:20AM
maybe your hobbed bolt is full of leftover material? or maybe youre starting to use other plastics. temperature in the room different.

it could be a lot. you need to give some more information about your printer, the material you are printing etc
a pic or vid maybe help to asses the problem
Re: not extruding enough material
May 27, 2015 11:46AM
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Weedz
maybe your hobbed bolt is full of leftover material? or maybe youre starting to use other plastics. temperature in the room different.

it could be a lot. you need to give some more information about your printer, the material you are printing etc
a pic or vid maybe help to asses the problem
No because the bobbed bolt is new. I wasn't using one with my old extruder. I'm using PLA. Temperature is the smallest as before.

Here is the thing, it comes out fine when im making it extrude manually. The printer is an i3. I just wish that I could make it extrude faster without moving faster.
Re: not extruding enough material
May 28, 2015 04:37PM
I would try calibrating the extruder first, then if it's still not putting out enough you can increase your extrusion multiplier. But I think if you find yourself setting that too high (>110%) you still have some other problem.
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