Strange problem with extruder?

Hello, I have been printing for 1400 hours. I was printing correctly and in the middle of printing I saw that no filament was coming out of the Hotend.

I thought it was a clog, so I checked the extruder and the hotend. I even did several times the unclogging procedure (cold and hot pull) with the hallen key.

The hotend I was using is the ObXidian one. I reassembled everything and the filament was loading fine from the AMS, but it wasn’t purging anything.

So I replaced the hotend with a new standard one to discard a hotend clog, it was still giving the same problem, no filament coming out of the hotend and the printer not detecting any faults. I suspect it may be the extruder.

I have also changed the filament and nothing, no filament comes out of the hotend.

Anyone with the same issue?

How exactly did you “check” the Extruder?
Did you take is apart?

I have the same issue.
Printing Bambu PC (Tested translucent grey and also a fresh roll of black PC filament)
Extrusion stops at about 70% progress with both filaments on a small print.

The printer didn’t even detect it.

Heat Creep or a Clogged Extruder maybe…

Or maybe extruder gears are damaged.

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That happened to me with a model that had a LOT of retractions with ABS. Heat creep enough right after the extruder into the hotend. No sensor trigger and there was a boatload of chewing debris in the extruder gear. No damage to the gear itself though, but it did need a good brushing and I had to reduce retraction for that model just so it wouldn’t do it again and again.

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Some good ideas here, I’ll check the extruder gears. If that’s not the issue I’ll look into a diagnosis for heat creep.

Printing with the door closed on a hot day caused the hot-ends heatsink to struggle so the problem was heatcreep. Causing the filament to get stuck at the bottom of the heatsink while printing-hence the extrusion failure. Also the morphed filament got stuck in the bowden tube on its way back into the AMS so I had to cut off the morphed filament that was hanging out the end of the bowden tube where it attaches to the extruder so the AMS could retract it again.

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Hi all.

I have been talking to bambulab support and after doing several checks, they have sent me a new motor extruder to replace.

I will keep you informed.

I will upload a video so you can see what happens to the printer in case it ever happens to you.

Here you can see what happens when your extruder motor is not working properly:

After talking to support and having them watch the video, they sent me a new extruder motor. I replaced it following the wiki:

and now the printer works perfectly.

It is very likely that a coil in the extruder motor was failing and that caused the motor to malfunction.

I had it replaced under warranty.

The support was fast.

Thank you all very much for your comments.

I share some pics (you need to tear down the extruder head and boards completely)