Clogged heatbreak
I’ve started using a filament oiler. No more clogs.
Plus, my prints smell like french fries.
Small (1cm^3) box with a piece of foam in it, and two holes. Route the filament through it, drop some oil in occasionally. I’m using vegetable oil because it’s what I had on hand, but at some point I’ll get some mineral oil or some three in one. Works like a hot damn.
@Patrick_Ryan wouldn’t the oil impact layer to layer adhesion?
I’ve used some oil to season my E3D when I started jamming on t-glase a lot, but that was more of a one off.
@Oliver_Seiler I considered that as a possibility, but it doesn’t seem to. We’re not talking about a lot of oil, after all.
Molten plastic is denser than oil, so the oil tends to “float” on top of the transition zone and not get blown out the nozzle. So it doesn’t really affect print adhesion and you only need a little dab for hundreds of hours of printing.
Hmmm I may try this. Must be the pla I’m using
@Zane_Mitchell After I started doing it, I went back to some of the PLA I had had problems with (e.g. an orange one with metallic flecks) and it ran tickity-boo. I will now never run without an oiler.
Abs is far better then this stuff. I going to print a piece to oil the pla in abs prob. I have never had such bad problems even with pla I’ve had before.
If you have an old cable with a removable choke cover, use that and put a piece of foam in it.