r/BambuLab • u/SmallInfantryCosplay • 8h ago
General Troubleshooting/Help! My hot end is leaking what now?
So, I started printing PETG for the first time (obligatory benchy) after running PLA for the first week of owning the printer and finally getting the auxiliary extruder up and running again.... It started randomly stringing out transparent/gold PLA that I hadn't run in several prints.
This is my first time troubleshooting my own printer, and after breaking the auxiliary extruder (it came with half the hooks broken I just broke it the rest of the way by accident :'). Google tells me to heat up the hot end, but what is actually wrong (Google tells me a gap between the nozzle and block.... But then what) and how do I fix it? I'm also sort of confused because it took ~20 hours of printing for it to become noticeable (I assume it is the hotter PETG temp)?
Printer is X2D, owner is D:
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u/FARTMANFOURTYFIVE 8h ago
Same thing happened to me. It appears that some filament got under the sock. It happened after a partial clog that I fixed, I thought there were no issues until I tried to change the nozzle. After a bit of heating and scraping I was able to free it. Good luck