Comment on Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
It depends on the filament you use but if you are using brass nozzles, best to get use to replacing them periodicly. Just look at thingaverse or the prusa site for nozzle assessories and look at how people make cases for multiples sizes and numbers of nozzles. IDK what kind of quality that FlashForge has but its pretty typical to wear out the nozzle (just maybe not as fast as you are experiencing)
but you might be having problems with the preloading or the tension on the filament feeding gear. IDK who method that uses but I had similar problems with my PRUSA until I replaced the Hotend PTFE tube. Those will also wear out so get a few if your printer uses that feeding system
batmaniam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah I anticipated wear, but with <2kg of material that seems excessive no? I did have some feed issues, but even with those resolved and it feeding nicely, I still have problems. A friend of mine did suggest that maybe with the feed issues I managed to do something that brought the nozzle out of spec and that’s why I’m getting issues.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For reference I have an Anycubic s1 with 1,000+ hours on the brass nozzle and it was still fine when I changed it.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks! This kind of insight is super helpful. Are you a poster here often? I was able to get decent prints again by changing the layer from 0.16 to 0.20. Still disappointed and confused as to what happened, but will probably keep the printer. Not sure if it makes sense to do a “wrap up” post for anyone else searching later.
Also: go team venture!
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Great to hear your prints are working again. Maybe extrusion problem and you need to hand tweak your flow rate for .16?
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
you might want to check how tight the filament is before it goes into the system, like it was a popular trend to find a way to get your spools on bearings instead of free spinning, as that extra tension goes a long way to create problems.
Good luck, hope you can fix it without having to tear down the whole print head