So I’m having issues with my wades extruder chewing up my filament and I’m about tired of this damned extruder it’s costing me big prints. I upgraded the hobbed bolt to a hyena sold by arcol it’s great it doesn’t chew through the filament as much as my last one did.
I’ve tried various tensions on the tensioner but it always chews through at some point. (Usually on long big prints)
So my question is what extruder is the most reliable? Bowden, direct drive? I’m up to all suggestions I need a reliable extruder quick.
It’s a .35 nozzle yes I just cleaned it out about 2 days ago. I think turning the stepper carrier down has helped. I’m doing a large print now and will see be checking on it every so often for gunk in the hyena bolt. But for now it seems fine… We will see…
It looks like the filament is getting coughs between the m8 rod and the smooth part if the hyena … How I dot know there’s plenty of tension on it that it should not he able to jump.
Ok I think I may have fixed it i saved the print (guessed the right layer to resume printing at) I have some high density foam that I put on the side of the filament that it likes to bend towards and jump track. I trimmed the stepper carrier to the point that just a little back pressure will cause it to skip. We will see how that works.