It keep telling me to “pull out filament on the spool holder, etc.” There is nothing in loaded at all. I’m trying to load my filament, but it gets stuck trying to pull the nonexistent current filament. It tried to cut the non-existant filament, and now just keeps rolling the feeder wheel on the head backwards for about 120 seconds and then errors out. What can I do?
EDIT: I found a piece of filament sticking out of the nozzle. However, after removing the small piece, it is still trying to pull back current filament, which doesn’t exist. There’s nothing there and it refuses to try to push new filament into the extruder.
Figured it out my first issue. Some how my filament has broken into three pieces. I took the head apart completely and found the culprits. I accidentally dropped a screw down into the machine beneath the bed and can’t get it out… Ugh!!
However, now the new filament won’t extrude… Frustrating.
Okay, I had multiple issues. First issue was that I had three small broken pieces in the head and nozzle. I cleared those, but to do that, I had to take apart the print head. When I put the print head back together, I forgot to include the spring to tension bolt thing (whatever it is called), so there was no tension on the extruder gear, which is why it wouldn’t feed new filament. Now it seems to be working. This was a good educational experience as now I know how to take the thing apart and how it works. However, I’ve lost two screws in the process…
I had the same issue. No matter what I did the printer believed there was something in the extruder assembly. I decided to take the filament receiver out of the top of the assembly. You will notice there is a tiny ribbon cable attached, so be careful. If you look in the bottom of the receiver, you should see a small silver lever extending out into the path of the filament (if it is working). In my case, the lever was stuck in the filament present state due to what appeared to be a slight amount of filament residue trapping it there. I removed the tiny circuit board that the ribbon cable is attached to and forced it back out into the filament tube. I then used a tiny screw driver to clean the residual filament out of the assembly. Reassembled and all worked fine.
If it says there is something in there when there is not I had the same issue. You have to take off the cover over the section that is having issues weather it is 1 and 2 or 3 and 4. Next you have to disconnect the wire from the one having the issue and the other one in that section. Next once both are disconnected you must connect the wire from the number having issues into the other slot in that section. Then you have to connect the one not having issues into the one having issues. Then, you have to push load or unload on the spool having issues. Last once it has been ran then you can re connect al wires to the correct spot and see if you can load new filament into the ams having issues.
