Creality K1 Max Clogged Nozzle | Do This Instantly To Unclog

In this video I will show you how I unclogged my nozzle in the K1 Max or any FDM printer.
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[@Scratch3DPrinting]

If you found this video useful, consider subscribing it means a ton to me. Thanks for watching.

[@MegzyPrintz]

i couldn't hear u with background music

[@chriscox8310]

Heating up the nozzle cleaner, absolutely genius. I've been stuck trying to clean out a nasty blockage for the past couple of days and that single, simple step made all the difference. Thanks for passing it along.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem, I'm glad it was helpful to you.

[@iansegobio9334]

Man, I went through this so many times... This is exactly the ONLY way I got my clog to be solved. Nice one!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, glad it was helpful to you.😊

[@RichardDHooper]

Second method worked a treat. Thank you. First clog in over 600 hours.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's great to hear.

[@jeremybaccus3269]

This was actually significantly more helpful than anyone is giving credit for. Thanks dude!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

ahh, thanks! Glad you found it helpful! 😊

[@carbon288]

Perfect, using the bigger nozzle cleaner cleared my clog. Thank you for the helpful tip!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're Welcome, glad you got your printer unclog.

[@divyanshudn]

wow you saved me, I got creality 7 days back and today I almost requested a replacement as I was not able to print anything, found out the filament was stuck in the pipe in the extruder, the burning and pushing helped, Thanks 🙏

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, glad I was able to help. Keep on 3d printing.

[@TrasherBiner]

Thank you man, striaghtforward to the point without filler. Loved it. I comment to help the algorithm bump up your content.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you. I'm glad it was helpful to you. 😁

[@samlewis4195]

Thank you for making this video!! I couldn’t get it unclogged, but your heating the push rod and then running it worked perfectly.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're welcome! Glad you got your printer unclogged.

[@-SeanyBoy-]

BADASS! ...HEATING THE PUSHROD, WHO WOULD HAVE THUNK IT? Great tip, you saved my print because this happened overnight when i was asleep & ran out of filiment. i tried everything, but heating that pushrod, & when i did, it fixed it & saved my print. you are a gentleman & a scolor my friend!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, I'm glad the method was able to help you out.

[@aeonjoey3d]

Ohhhhh my god. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I've had the K1 about 3 weeks, and have had to unclog twice (knock on wood) and found this video becasue I'm having to unclog for the 3rd time - this one is my fault though, I did the retract, then started to remove the filament then pushed it back in cold, and it got stuck lol. But I'm so tired of taking the extruder and head cowel off every time! I just ordered the 0.4mm pins on amazon (like $6 thanks for this info! didn't know they were a thing!) and had been trying the throat clearing pin, but it would just go in and stop - so I tried heating the tip up (just the tip) with a butane torch lighter and IT WORKED! it worked right away, a poop came out and i was back to work without having to disassemble anything! THANK YOU!!!!!!!! I wonder if there's enough heat conduction to just touch the tip of the clearing pin that's included with the printer - to the hot end, and then pushing it from the top? i'll try that next time too, but for now the lighter worked amazing.

[@aeonjoey3d]

subscribed!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

LETS GO!! I'm glad you were able to get it unclog without taking the extruder off, it is a lot of work to do that every time. Thanks for subscribing! 😊

[@Trez72]

Thanks, I was looking way to unclog and nothing worked except your. Thanks again

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're welcome, I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@apacheandy]

I'd have never guessed about heating the unclog stick before, damn. Great video presented in a friendly and funny manner - easy sub for the thanks :)

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@missilpeludo8813]

You’re a life savior !!!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, glad I was able to help. 😁

[@BryanTurcotte]

Awesome video! Would have never thought of heating up the push stick. It got the clog right out. Thank you!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it helped!

[@christrav9627]

Legend. Helped to resolve my problem is secs

[@abrehamgebru9022]

it works for me, it's a straightforward method. Thank you very much for the information.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're welcome!

[@rogalao]

i was hopeless. and I watched this video and it workes !thx a lot bro !

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad I could help

[@Karlosovic77]

Thanks for that tip on manually heating up the poker rod and pushing it through from the top! That was exactly my problem :)

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem 👍, glad it was helpful to you.

[@megaimageuk]

You're good, man. No questions about that! Thanks

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I appreciate that!

[@lordtaz201]

I wanted to heat the metal thingy and wasn't sure it was a good idea, thanks for the vid

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem 👍

[@febojarlock9469]

Take your like my very good man.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you.

[@rosierings4200]

Thank you so much! This solved the issue for me - I had replaced the hot end, removed the extruder and still no luck! - to think it was just a tiny piece of filament up hidden where it couldn't be seen! Subscribed!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you! I'm glad you found this video helpful.

[@rockydotson31]

BRO!!!!!! THANKS I was franticly taking my hotend apart and came across THIS video!!! I knew to do this but wasn't thinking........... THANKS

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I'm glad you found the video helpful.

[@erickcamargo4975]

Thanks for the information! Just bought mine k1 max and in the third try to print, see the same situation Thanks!!!!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem, hopefully you were able to unclogged it.

[@TheRealDruss]

Worked beautifully for me, didnt even notice that tool that creality included, cheers!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it helped! It is a great tool!

[@tomsender3v2neo]

The big needle from Creality is designed to be used after removing the nozzle to just push it out. It does not require heating if you remove the nozzle first. And with the Microswiss Nozzle it’s super fast and easy. With my limited experience with different brands of filament, i have only had one brand do this (cheap stuff i bough once and will be glad when its gone,) the other 3 brands never have jammed. the cheap brand did this in my Enders too.. and yes it was dried before printing for well over any requirements and to less that 20% humidity.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's good to know thanks. Next time I'll stay away from cheap filament.

[@AlbertoHernandez-jm6xk]

Te lo agradezco mucho, me salvaste de tener que desarmar media maquina en lo que es la primera impresión de mi vida.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you.

[@tomassus83]

Great tutorial man - all most important info in one spot :)

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks, glad you found this helpful 😀

[@jodycamper8955]

Great video I am going ahead and upgrading my nozzle too. Have had the printer for two weeks and still havent had one successful print.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Awww that's not good to hear, hopefully you'll get success after the upgrade.

[@jeremypalmer9028]

I have seen people say before you shouldn't push the rod you heated through the gears as it could damage them. I always just take the extruder off, it's only 3 screws to come off, and another 2 if you want to take it apart. Anyone else know this is true or not?

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That is true, that's why I said in the video to be very careful when pushing in the hot rod into the extruder

[@frankrodriguez4480]

I usually just heat up my nozzle for a bit jam the new filament and it pushes whatever is clogging it out

[@matigomez7292]

Perfecto! Excelente video, muchas gracias

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks.

[@ElizaWinchester]

Omg it worked, lifesaver! 😅

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks.

[@VikashKumar-g7v3x]

Thanks.. It really helped.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad to hear that

[@vinylsteve]

Really helped, thank you :-)

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it helped!

[@Bruhaha777]

I just did this and it worked so well thanks

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yes! I'm glad it worked for you!

[@SloaneHienes]

Hi there, Im subscribed, and I have a question. I have the creality k1 speedy and every time i try to print, the first thing that happens, is that the nozzle just makes a ball of filament on the nozzle, i really need help. May you please explain how to fix this issue Thankyou

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Hello thank you for your support. There are many reasons that could cause that issues from what I know. What you can try is to manually extrude the filament out by either using the 3d printer screen or a slicer. If the filament comes out nicely then it should work fine. If not, then maybe there's something inside your nozzle, try to clear it or replace it with a new one. If that still occur then I suggest you try a whole hot end replacement. Anymore question let me know.

[@chno4422]

Great education. Thank you.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad you found this video helpful.

[@MagickatSunset]

Thank you, worked on my K1

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it helped.

[@GabrielCosta-jr8mp]

Dude, i fucking love you. thanks

[@wahoobear6588]

Oh it's work ! Thank You Very Much Bro !

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're welcome!

[@ابنهجر-خ5ن]

I have Creality K1 can you help mewith this problem? The nozzle isn't touching the bed during printing and then it starts to moving xy without printing anything.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I'm not sure, you can maybe redo the bed calibration, and also try homing and see if the nozzle touches the bed. Clean off the purge line at the back of the build plate. If nothing works then maybe something is broken and needs replacements.

[@norbertfistinger1466]

worked like a charm

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it worked 😁

[@norbertfistinger1466]

3:30 what do i do when the filament wont come out of the top? I cant rip it out.

[@leo1405leo]

Thank you so much!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.

[@richardsavage6981]

I appreciate that this worked for you, but I decided it would be less risky for the plastic gears to open the extruder mechanism and clean out everything. It doesn't take terribly long, either.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That is another way to do it, I'll consider that method next time I get clogged.

[@aeonjoey3d]

is there plastic gears in yours? mine are metal, and unlocking moves them away from the filament path

[@rgarriga93]

With normal needle that is around 4cm is almost imposible to reach the gears of the exteuder putting it through the nozzle I think..

[@petikan]

I tried this. Doesn't work on every situations. I had a blob of melted filament which was stuck after the gears at the entrance of the extrusion channel (tube) in the plastic housing. How do I know? Well I managed to follow a video instruction on taking the stepper motor and extrusion housing out and opened them to check. It would have been much easier to do it this way. The method to stick a hot pin into the extruder channel was kind of odd coming from Creality (Not sure if this is from Creality or from the Poster) as the hot pin actually melted the blob and when I pulled the pin out the melted filament got pulled along and smeared the inside of the channel reducing the diameter of the channel so much so the filament wouldn't go through. So I ended up opening the unit which was actually much much easier to do and cleared the blob out and removed the smeared filament inside the channel by using a 1.75mm diameter metal rod. I actually use the provided Allen key in this instance. That cleared the mess and I was back to business again. But there is another video on YT that actually advice K1 Owners not to do which will prevent the same blockage occurring again. Basically he said if you are going to replace or change your filament by retracting, you SHOULD NOT pull the filament out WITHOUT UNLOCKING the gear. The act of leaving the gear locked and while you pull the filament out will cause the melted portion of the filament which is after the gear to be left behind. And it is this melted filament that then accumulate and block the extrusion channel.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's good that you figure out the problem. The hot pin is not from creality, it's from me, that's how I do it sometimes. Yes there are risks pushing the pin into the extruder.

[@victorx4648]

05:52 one should never-ever do that! This thing is not meant to be heated. The extruder casing is made of plastic. It can be damaged by heated metal. Also, this thing may weld into the piece of stuck filament (it may be about 5 cm long), and everything will get stuck. You should push with it when it is cold. And when the filament is stuck and cannot be pushed through - just undo three screws that hold the extruder in place, dislocate the extruder a bit, and pull out the piece of filament that is stuck.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

You're correct, this method is really dangerous at that time it seems like a good idea but it is not.

[@victorx4648]

@@Scratch3DPrinting yeah. I followed that "hot advice". It ended up drilling through the casing of the extruder. 🤣

[@vaughanza]

Thanks another great video awesome

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you!

[@rgarriga93]

I am having exactly this same issue with 1week old printer, will bought the needles because in my case it is clearly clogged after the extrusor (mainly because if I unscrew it I can move it up and down and see the filament attached after it) I do not know it in hotend or nozzle. What I cannot remove is the PTFE tube, I am pressing in the white part and dragging up the tube with the extruder unlocked but I cannot remove it. Maybe it is also stuck inside?

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

If that's the case then the filament might have gotten stuck with the ptfe tube.

[@rgarriga93]

It is weird, tried with the needles and nothing, so nozzle and hotend are fine. Seems that there is filament stuck at the entrance of thermal pad or in the middle idk. Guess I will have to dissasemble everything 😢😢 Also the ptfe tube seems sticks with the extruded but the filament can move inside it and through the extruded. Strange but that makes me think that it does not block the extruder.. If I find solution I will post here also, hope it can helps others

[@rgarriga93]

Managed to fix it!💪 The filament was stuck at the entrance of the thermal pad (inside the small plastic tube). After the extrusor the filament goes to the thermal pad through a small plastic tube and after that it passes through the thermal pad and goes to the nozzle. With the needle I was able to clean the nozzle using the video solution, hottening etc etc.. and after that was done, with the extruder moved upwars I was able to cut the filament and drag it out with a tool. Then had to put back the tiny plastic tube and the extruder and everything is fine now. Had to dissasembly almost every part to be sure that was only the problem but ye, that was. Read that wet filament can bulge and obstruct parts, thought this was the case since yesterday was raining heavily where I live. Hope this can help someone.🙂

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's great to hear you were able to fix it. It will definitely help someone out there.

[@scrunchiesbylisa]

Lifesaver. Thank you.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it helped!

[@MatiusPhi]

you saved me, thank you :)

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it helped!

[@Minalucy0]

Thank you :D

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem!

[@larsmats]

Bravo!

[@lucianolizana446]

works great with PLA! with PETG is a nightmare

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah PETG is tougher and harder to unclog if it cloged.

[@HughD]

Excellent. Thanks you.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem.

[@shirgall]

I'm jealous that you have the v3 extruder. I have the v2 with the blue filament tube lock ring.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Aww, that's unfortunate. Hopefully, it still works fine.

[@shirgall]

@@Scratch3DPrinting I had to print that little lock thing to keep it from unlocking while printing and I'm on the warranty list for replacement.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

@@shirgall nice!

[@LazorzPewPew]

Great video

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thank you.

[@0800Barfly]

Dudes. That is for when you remove the nozzle and use the pin for cleaning the entire block. Heat the nozzle. Remove it and use the pin to push up and down to clear any blockage. After each push clean it.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

ohh, well it is also great at unclogging as well.

[@paulsmith-lu5io]

Its now monday. Heres an update for you. As suspected the filament had created a rivet either side of the heatsink. I stripped the parts off. And cleared the heatsink blockage. I then extended the ptfe tube. Blue on by 0.90mm andvmade sure I could see it protruding out of the bottom of the carrier block. I then had a good look at the hot end and nozzle. I measured the apeture on the heat sink that recieves the hot end. It measures out as 10.50mm. The shaft of the hot end that fits into the heatsink measure 10.00mm from the base of the shaft. These measurements where done on a digital vernier caliper. This is a .50 discrepancy, exactly the same height as the rivet that had been formed. As is the case one can raise the shaft of the hot end to accomodate the discrepancy. But, and this is important. You must use a high temperature silicone rubber to seal the thread. Otherwise the head will leak round the thread causing a bigger issue. Gasket sealant for head gaskets on motor cars is a cheap way to do this. Just make sure its got a temp range of around 250 centigrade.make darn sure that the shaft is a slight higher than the 0,50mm dicrepancy. Say 0.15mm over. So the final height of the shaft should measure 0.65mm. Lock it into place with the grub screw at the rear of the heatsink once you are absolutely sure it has made contact with the heat sink. Put the extruder motor back in place. And compress the heatsink and hot end so you can see the holes for the screws for the heatsink clearly. Then put the printer head back together. So far ive managed a 5 and a 7 hour print with no issues. This most certainly looks like a gapping issue either side of the heat sink. Thats what I feel and think is causing all of the blockage issues on this paticular moldel of creality printer. They have put a fix in the box with a longer ptfe tube. It in my oipnion as I said, slightly too long. The hot end part. Hmmmm. I dont think thats been adcressed correctly yet. Give them time. Its a great printer when grafting correctly.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Wow that's a lot. You're correct, every time I get clogged, there is a small pieces that's stuck in the heatsink, some time heat builds up, and the filament then gets stuck. It's good that now you are printing fine.

[@landandayringer6049]

ive tried this a thousand times to the point im afraid i am damaging my printer and it is not fixing the issue. are there other methods of unclogging?

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

If nothing works, then I guess you'll have to take apart your extruder and unclogged it that way.

[@wannabef]

Helpful video, but unfortunately, it revealed that my K1 Max's extruder kit had failed completely after only about 30 hours of printing! I also discovered that Creality neglected to install the PTFE tube between the extruder and the heat break. Though I love my old CR-10S Pro v2, I didn't exactly trust Creality after this. In the week since I had bought the printer, the price had increased $200, which then made the Bambu Labs P1S with AMS a cheaper option, so I went that way.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

man, thats sucks, that your extrude had failed. But hey, congrats on getting the P1S with AMS. Keep on 3D printing.

[@DDSnags]

haha just my luck, the nozzle cleaner is now stuck in there as well haha FML *EDIT* I put ALOT of muscle into her, and when I pulled it out, it had a huge line of the stuck filament on it , which is why I couldn't get it out as it'd cooled back in place, but after that no more clogged nozzle!! I would have never even thought to try to figure out what the tool did lol! Cheers!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

haha, it's amazing to hear that you got it unclog!

[@babil57]

Ty worked

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Glad it worked.

[@frankrodriguez4480]

And sometimes the filament gets stuck in a special way and it’s stuck in between the gears leading it into a small hole that is not the hot end be careful jamming rods in there you usually just have to crack it open it’s not to bad

[@tonyharding1257]

got my rod stuck in the top, nice one mate!!!!!!☹

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Oh no! Hopefully you got it out

[@tonyharding1257]

@@Scratch3DPrinting Yeah, had to take it apart. The problem was inside the gears had to drill thought after taking apart, which worked. Only problem was connecting the motor to board really fiddly to connect it. I'll check back and let you know if it fixed it. Only had my k1 max 10 days.

[@paulsmith-lu5io]

The method is good but sometimes the filament gets clogged underneath the heat sink. Thats a full strip down to clear. I believe there is gapping issue under the heat sint and above the hot end and nozzle. I spent all day clearing a clog, with the entire head stripped apart. It still did not fix my issue. The methods employed are exactly the ones i used. Including replacing the hot end and a 0.20 nozzle. 5 hours later it clogged again on a 16 hour print. Therefore there may be hidden issues with this machine causing the clogging. Ive had my k1 max since october and this is the first big problem ive had.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, recently I did notice that the k1 max has issues with clogging while retracting and long prints. The filaments keeps braking near the heatsink, so thats a hard place to get it unclog without stripping everything down in the nozzle head.

[@paulsmith-lu5io]

So true. I'm in the process of discovering what a brass shim or heat conductivity paste will do to help seal the leak. I should find out before monday if these are good fixes or a waste of time.

[@MsJellyfan]

first needle try, never worked for me on any printer or nozzle last method is the only/best that works absolutely fine! heat your nozlle and push it down. if that doesnt work. remove the extruder with 3 screws and do it again. do that actually on all my printers, now. but nozzles are cheap and clogges are pretty rare, so you can change that 2 dollar nozzle as well.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yea the needle doesn't really work all that well.

[@YevheniiHloba]

thanks

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

No problem, I'm glad it was helpful

[@Vitol-Metal]

You can heat the nozzle, release the extruder and push the filament with your fingers.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That is another way of doing it, but sometime it's just way to hard to push the stuck filament down.

[@aeonjoey3d]

like he explained, sometimes a bit will get stuck cold higher up in the throat; every time mine has clogged it was because I pushed the filament with my fingers, I can see a compressed fat wide bit of filament that melted too wide for the throat - because I pushed it.

[@Vitol-Metal]

@@aeonjoey3d I mean push when you have unclogged the nozzle. When I chage filaments I always do it manually, I don't use the Extrude or Retract function anymore, and never had a clog.

[@davidschmid6346]

bester Mann

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Thanks!

[@rnamma]

The way you heat @6:11 with fire is better to heat with an hot air gun with temperature controllable, don't insert anything hotter than probably 250 degree on the cold end (intend with margin 240) it's a good over minimum and maximum temperature in many cases not involving extruder gears. I'm not sure which is the max temperature not to damage this specific design (and K1 Max neither ship always with the same heating block since time to market) but heat with fire is not something to imitate to reach "hot enough", it might be definitely too much.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah you're right, a heat gun would've been better for better heat control. It is also very dangerous to that method.

[@AlokSainim]

please do with caution as the hot unclogging tool can melt the extruder jaws!!, better to open the extruder and then clean it up

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yes, it is very dangerous doing that method.

[@jxrdnz]

Here I was thinking my extruder was broken but i was just clogged

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah most of the time it's just clogged.

[@MisterkeTube]

Start with a cold pull, before messing up the stuck filament with needles, cutting it or having the extruder grind it to death. Let everything cool down, unlock the extruder gears, then pull the filament at the top (not so much that it would snap, just put some pull on it) while having the hotend heat up to 220C. The moment the stuck plastic reaches its glass transition temperature your pulling will start to pull everything out. Then you should be able to cut off the bad part and put the filament back in the normal way.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I'll try that next time it gets clog.

[@Patrick-dr1xb]

they got something to use, i just use a long hex key.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

heeyy that works too! nice.

[@matrixman8960]

I start by turning up the temperature to 280º C or more, then extrude most of the time you don't have to do anything mechanical to unclog your nozzle. It's always worked for me. Never had a clog issue on the K1 Max. Hoping Creality will update their firmware, the filament stops at the switch, at this point the extruder can NOT eject the filament out of the tube, it too long. I suggest that Creality change the firmware to run the end of the filament within 10mm of the extruder, so that only one extrusion needs to be done on a refill. The way it is now , the filament stops at the switch, and you have to do, 3 or 4 extraditions to get the new filament to the extruder, so it can pull it. If all else fails, I suggest the video...

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

That's nice to hear and a grate suggestion for Creality to fix their stuff. Thanks

[@Steele_Wings]

That nozzle clogs a lot when I use silky PLA

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I tend to find that true to many 3d printers.

[@Aaron-wh7vg]

so much for the camera that is meant to stop printing when the filament runs out as it kept printing nothing for 2 hours plenty of filament left

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Yeah, I disable that feature, as it takes a bit of time to get started printing.

[@hankmoran64]

i did same steps i took the same steps i heated up the extruder when i did it

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Amazing!

[@frankrodriguez4480]

What I do when I know my nozzle is clogged is just heat the nozzle to 240 for like 3 min put the new filament in turn down the heat and as soon as you do that hit that extrude button and the filament has nowhere else to go but down works every single time just trying to save people some money 💴 in today’s economy

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Nice, I'll try that next time I get a clog.

[@GoExploreMatt]

This worked for me! Thanks!!

[@VirtualRobotsRevolt]

Unfotunately, none of these methods worked for me. Printer is less than a week old too.

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Awww, that's not good. I guess you'll have to remove the extruder and try to unclog it that way.

[@VirtualRobotsRevolt]

@@Scratch3DPrinting got it fixed finally. :) wasnt anything in the gears. Just a bad clog in the hot end somewhere.

[@Aaron-wh7vg]

lol "finally clogged" im here because 3 hrs of printing 4 small tests on a brand new k1c and its already clogged wont extrude wont retract only used 10 percent of the test filament it came with its such low quality

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Sometime it just clogged for no reason.

[@Aaron-wh7vg]

and i unfortunatly cant even try this as it will void my warranty

[@sheakelley2208]

don’t do this!!! heating up the push rod, the components down there are plastic and you will melt them!!!

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

that's true, doing this is very dangerous, but if done correctly it works.

[@JBCool0729]

nice but can you keep your face closer to the camera 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

I'll try to keep my face closer to the camera next time. Glad you like my face.

[@JBCool0729]

@@Scratch3DPrinting yes I'm getting hot by watching you.

[@klaustiete441]

[@IvanRosaT]

Hi!! Just wanted to express my gratitude for your video - it was really insightful. I followed all the steps you outlined, and while it didn’t quite solve my issue, I’m sure it’s great for less complex problems. Your guidance was still very much appreciated! In the end, I found another guide that helped me out kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqSzi3aEa7GVmMUsi=Q3hj8jIOz1nOUQqZ which essentially is taking out the extruder then taking it apart (2 more screws, becareful with the bearings as the tiny one pops up, I did this and found the clog), it might seem a bit intimidating to do, is actually pretty. just one got it take time

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Hi, thanks for the kind words. Yes these method are used before taking apart the whole extruder. I'm glad you were able to get your 3d printer unclogged.

[@Bomfunknight]

Your method got my little metal thing STUCK IN THE PRINTER

[@Scratch3DPrinting]

Awww dang, yeah it's a risky method, you need to go fast so that it does not get stuck.

[@rek3522]

WS soll der Schwachsinn mit der heissen nadel?🤦‍♂️

[@Hoyee2023]

Your method will damage the gears and material conveying pipes of the printer. Please take it off the shelves immediately because your method caused the damage to the printer I bought less than a week ago.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢