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My custom printer is affected by a strange problem. After 30/40 min printing without any problem, PLA starts blobbing from the top of the hotend.

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What does it means? Where to start checking?

It is possible that there is a little space between nozzle screw and transition screw inside the hotend?

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  • $\begingroup$ I've had the same problem, and the answer you selected fixed it. $\endgroup$
    – cmm
    Mar 1, 2020 at 21:50

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This is a typical sign, that your hotend wasn't tightened properly. Carefully heat it up and remove all the plastic you can while removing the heatbreak - that's what you call transition screw.

After cleaning, screw in the heatbreak and the nozzle. The nozzle should butt agains the heatbreak, but have at least 2 threads to the heating block. Reassamble the full hotend now by adding the coolend.

Finally heat the hotend on the full assembly to about 240 °C and tighten the nozzle against the heatbreak again. This is called hot-tightening. You can add the PTFE liner after the hot tightening.

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