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?

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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.

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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)




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