Blocked nozzle AND B-axis error

[drfrei @drfrei My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

I have what I assume to be blocked nozzle with ABS and on top of this attempts to purge are often met by B-axis errors. The B-axis error I live with while I wait for a support ticket response…it only means about 1 in 3 prints are duds, the other 2 are fine.

 

I have my second blocked nozzle in a week now. I know that this is not a problem unique to the Robot CEL, and is the lot of the 3D newbie and Robox early adopter user like me…

 

Assuming I can deal with the BAE (common problems deserve simple acronyms), how would I unblock the nozzle? The last time it happened I was using PLA and it unblocked after a material change, purge etc.

 

Do I have to remove the head etc? Should I keep trying purges until the constipation clears? What about the apparently futile “Eject stuck material” processs?

 

I am happy to try removing the head. In for a penny and all that. Did not expect to become a Robot 3D printer technician by the end of 2014 but what the heck right?! Already I have attacked a z-axis threat by adjusting screws and gantries, B-axis errors by jiggling cables (unsuccessfully) and now this, all in the space of a week! I didn’t even know what a gantry be 10 days ago!

 

Thank you and a productive 3D print season and new year to you all.

[Nicholas @nemo]

drfrei - just to let you know you’re not alone.

I too have been fighting with about every single problem mentioned in these forums and just wrote a ticket to finally get a new printhead since the 0.3mm nozzle currently extrudes unreliably at best.

Now it starts making really bad and loud noises and seemingly tries to pull the head outside of the case while calibrating *sigh*

Draft mode with PLA has been the only viable print-option for me for months now and i never expected to become a technician to get that far…

Oh well better to know what all can go wrong with 3D printing right from the start

 

Happy new year.

• This reply was modified 3 days, 21 hours ago by  Nicholas.

[smitty @smitty My Robox is a Blue Commercial Version]

@drfrei if you go over to the robox support portal theres a detailed description on how to purge ,if that fails look up the manually purge section and try that ,its a real pain i couldn’t unblock mine and i had to send the head back

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