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What to do if filament spool won't fit in 3D printer
A spool does not need to be inside a printer. Or on. Or even next to.
My Ender 3 pulls his filament in from the rack above it, my TronXY X1 pulls it from about 80 cm to the left of it, where it hangs ...
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FlashForge Adventurer 3 cooling fan making grinding sound
I got a used Artillery Hornet back in December 2022 and whenever it began heating up the nozzle it would make noises like those of a jet engine. It was crazy. It needed some maintenance.
Important: ...
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FlashForge Adventurer 3 cooling fan making grinding sound
If you want, check your fan. There might be something stuck inside. You can clean it with a soft toothbrush. Take a look at the fan blades as well. Sometimes they can get bent. If the fan is spinning ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Filament feeder loud thumping noise, not enough filament extruded
Advice from another source suggested thoroughly cleaning the feed gear on the bowden extruder. When I looked closely there were plastic flakes all over the mechanism. I used compressed air and a ...
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Printing temperatures for ABS on a Flashforge Adventurer 3
If one edge is peeling up, the first layer isn't sticking. You may need to go through a first-layer troubleshooting process.
Is the bed flat and parallel to the Z-plane traced by the printhead?
Are ...
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Printing temperatures for ABS on a Flashforge Adventurer 3
The most commonly used print temperature range for ABS is 220 to 240 °C with the major bulk around 230 °C. Some filaments are blended with inhibitors or PC, increasing their print temperature to up to ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Filament feeder loud thumping noise, not enough filament extruded
I had this problem and thought I'd put my solution here.
The nozzle (at least my nozzle) is not actually an 0.4 mm nozzle. You can tell just by comparing it side by side to another one. Mine seems to ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Filament feeder loud thumping noise, not enough filament extruded
After a couple of hundred hours of successful (mostly) prints, I heard weird thumping of the feeder and though it fed filament it would not extract it completely for a color change. Tried a number of ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Filament feeder loud thumping noise, not enough filament extruded
My Flashforge Adventurer 3 showed similar symptoms at the start of a print. I found that the z-axis was out of calibration, causing the print head to touch the platform, meaning that the filament ...
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Extruder/nozzle keeps clogging up
I can see from the photo that filament melted and frozen thicker inside extruder. This is the problem and not the clogged extruder. This thick part produce a lot of friction and actually diameter grow ...
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FlashForge Adventurer 3 cooling fan making grinding sound
i found that the bowden tube is what is causing the sound it turns out if you push the end of the tube that connects to the nozzle in a certain direction the noise stops so if you print or buy a new ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Filament feeder loud thumping noise, not enough filament extruded
PLA should not be printed at 235 °C. If your printer requires such high temperatures to make the filament very fluid, you have too much friction in your system, e.g. this can be caused by ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Filament feeder loud thumping noise, not enough filament extruded
I had an identical problem, flashforge provided me with a setup that helped (mostly going much slower) but I still needed high temperature and had a lot of failures.
Eventually I dismantled the ...
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Why is Filament reel rocking back and forth/drive gear is pulling and pushing filament repeatedly?
That is quite normal behavior, what you are experiencing is called retraction. This is an opposite direction of the extrusion of the filament. Extrusion unrolls the spool, retraction pushes the ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 - how to replace X-axis endstop
This is not a "how to" to replace the X end stop; this post is meant as a description of the location of the X-axis end stop.
End stops are generally located on the minimum of the axis, but ...
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Why is my nozzle routinely clogging and no longer extruding mid otherwise successful print with several different previously successful filaments?
Nozzles do degrade with use. That is why they're made to be easily replaceable.
Your problem may be a worn nozzle or incomplete cleaning or something with the bowden tube etc,. but an easy ...
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Flashforge adventurer 3 will not home or calibrate
This can happen when the end stop of the X-axis (i.e. the minimum end stop on the left) has moved/bent/broken/un-connected.
Please look into this answer of question Flashforge Adventurer 3 - how to ...
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Adventurer 3 Not loading Filament/Grinding Sound
Try making sure there is a clean cut on the end. No fraying or angle. A straight clean cut. Then when loading push it a little. Give the filament a little help. It's worked for me.
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I have blind clips that are no longer being produced. I want to be able to 3D print them. What would be the best way to make a copy?
There is a way to make a 3D model from the original. A lot depends on the original item. The clear clip seems to have been reproduced on Thingiverse (Valance Clip) with the procedure with which the ...
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Unable to load new filament FlashForge Adventurer 3
First thing I'd try is making sure the nozzle is hot enough and carefully try to feed the new filament where it will be pushed - sometimes there's melted filament that just isn't hot enough to flow ...
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What are some good safety tips for a 3D printing beginner?
There are several ways to be injured with a 3D printer. The biggest threats come from the printer running under normal conditions. The uncommon, exceptional, and difficult to quantify threats come ...
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What are some good safety tips for a 3D printing beginner?
Check where the moving cables (especially for the heaters) are bending. The bending radiuses should be as wide as possible and connections or soldering points should never see any direct force from ...
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What are some good safety tips for a 3D printing beginner?
Technically, you should never leave your printer running unattended. Printer fires are rare, but it can happen, especially with cheap printers with poor quality control. Personally, I would just make ...
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Running costs of 3D printing
I have a Prusa I3M3+MMU2, which I have had for a year.
During the first year, the display failed under warranty and replaced for free. The power supply also failed, and although Prusa replaced it, I ...
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Flashforge Adventurer 3 Spool mounting
From a comment by the OP (posted as a Community wiki):
The supplier has just forwarded a solution but it is not what I was hoping for as I was looking for something that fitted in original hole/area.
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Printing temperatures for ABS on a Flashforge Adventurer 3
This I hope will help:
You must see which is the type of ABS you use, in terms of temperature. If you have an ABS material which melts at 220 - 250 °C it is difficult cu work with it using an ...
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Printing temperatures for ABS on a Flashforge Adventurer 3
Having the same issues with the Adventurer 3. I have printed the TUSH (The Ultimate Spool Holder) and cut a 3 cm hole in the door. This enables me to run the spool directly into the printer with ...
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Printing temperatures for ABS on a Flashforge Adventurer 3
Note that some of the other advice is general advice which is not applicable to the Adventurer 3.
Temperature control is somewhat limited on Adventurer 3. The maximum bed temperature is 100 °...
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