Print coming out looking like a birds nest

I’ve been printing with the X1C for the past 11 months with great success. Out of the blue, my printer has been printing irregularly…th past 5 prints have come out looking like a birds nest…the 1st layer comers out great, after the 2nd or 3rd layer it begins to spider web/bird nest out.

I’ve run all the calibration tests I can that are installed on the X1C . I’ve run the dynamic flow calibration and the extrusion calibration, no issues with either. I haven’t changed any of the print profiles, I’m running Bambu lab filament.

Ive also bought a filament dryer because i thought that might be the answer…however after drying out the filament for 12 hours and having a “1” wetness rating in my AMS, i suspect it isn’t wet filament either. Could it be my belts? I’m enclosing 3 pics of the printed object from the last attempt

Welcome to the forum.

It’s either a partially clogged nozzle or the thermal paste is drying out.

You might want to check out this post as it looks like a similar issue.

John you are awesome! :pray: I appreciate that! After taking off my hotend, I’m realizing that if it’s not the thermal grease, it’s definitely time for a new hotend (mine looks terrible lol, I didn’t know it was that bad under that sleeve.

Jon is definitely the 2nd best thing about this forum!

I’m having the same issue. I replaced my hotend and cleaned out clogs, but it’s still giving me issues. Trying another disassemble to check for clogs

Use the control panel to manually heat up the hotend and try extruding some filament.

Depending on the age of the printer, Jon’s thermal paste suggestion may apply for you as well.