Flashforge Creator Dual / Pro How to fix Dual Extruders dragging across prints.

[Billzilla]

Once you do it the first time, you will laugh at how remarkably simple it was. It's easier than taking apart a bubblejet printer. There are no tension aspects, no springs magically burst out leaving you wondering where it came from.. it's is literally a couple of hex screws and the fan slides out completely (toward you) and you have full access to the extruder. I think I was into the 6th or 8th week with my machine when it happened, you get it down to a speed record after a while

It seems to be quite similar to my UP printer, so it should be something I can do pretty easily.

[SL666]

Geoff - I'm going to put on a piece of glass to get a flat bed - the aluminium one moves around too much (cold to hot) for me for larger stuff.

[Billzilla]

Minor update on that blocked extruder I had - I wanted to use the Flashforge to print a model rocket nosecone for a friend so decided to have a better go at unblocking it.
Heated the nozzle up to 220° and tried to reverse the filament out - no good.
Same for 230°, so I ran the nozzle up to 250° .... still no good. So I tried extruding and that seemed to work okay.

So I took a punt and set it up to print the nosecone and it all worked just fine. FWIW I upped the extruder temp to 230° and didn't have any blocking problems.

[lycan]

Well.

Guess who decided to try and adjust nozzle alignment,

Lets just say I now know to totally disassemble the extruders but there was a difference between the two nozzle heights according to the calliper's.

It ended up taking me like 2.5 Hrs to pull it all apart ( still had filament in it..oops ) and get it back together again.

Its currently doing a print so be interesting to see how much I have upset things, will know in about 2Hrs

[lycan]

Excel,

Print completed with no drama`s and it appears I have eliminated the occasional scraping on the print from the un-used extruder.

For a change tonight I am actually going to turn off my printer and go to bed before 01:00 am compared to the last three nights being between 4 and 6 am.

Catchya All

[Geoff]

Excel,

Print completed with no drama`s and it appears I have eliminated the occasional scraping on the print from the un-used extruder.

For a change tonight I am actually going to turn off my printer and go to bed before 01:00 am compared to the last three nights being between 4 and 6 am.

Catchya All

I have never run my printer overnight, ever - I am just paranoid that's all so I have never had issues I did't know where they started - unless music was too loud and I didn't hear the click click click..

Worst thats happened is a spool got stuck and ended up pulling the thing so tight it snapped the spool holder.

[lycan]

I too am not game enough to leave my printing running unattended, hence last couple of nights been going to bed as the sun rises.

Soooooo tired now after 3hrs sleep each day over 4 days.

[guitartoys]

I don't know, maybe I'm just lucky, Or too stupid to know the difference.I just got my printer to weeks ago, and I've been running it overnight virtually every single night and have not had a single problem.

[Geoff]

I don't know, maybe I'm just lucky, Or too stupid to know the difference.I just got my printer to weeks ago, and I've been running it overnight virtually every single night and have not had a single problem.

Most of us don't . I's like Curious... hasn't been able to properly print in ABS, yet for me, it's my preferred plastic.. and I have the older machine. Some people can get warping, some don't... some people need all this cooling fan mumbo jumbo and heated chambers... some dont .. some need to print super hot while others can print the same thing super cold. Some can print faster...

For us practically all having the same machine it's amazing how differently they run. I often think 'man.... am I just lucky? " I read through alot of forums and people having issues and It's like... 'nope... never had that problem.... nope never had that one either..."
I still have my original motherboard from my FF that has firmware v1.0, it's like my backup that never fails.

[Rickmc3280]

Most of us don't . I's like Curious... hasn't been able to properly print in ABS, yet for me, it's my preferred plastic.. and I have the older machine. Some people can get warping, some don't... some people need all this cooling fan mumbo jumbo and heated chambers... some dont .. some need to print super hot while others can print the same thing super cold. Some can print faster...

For us practically all having the same machine it's amazing how differently they run. I often think 'man.... am I just lucky? " I read through alot of forums and people having issues and It's like... 'nope... never had that problem.... nope never had that one either..."
I still have my original motherboard from my FF that has firmware v1.0, it's like my backup that never fails.

So i just found these forums a few days ago.

I'd been having the scraping problem where it pulls my part off of the board. I adjusted the height using the advice in the original post and now my left extruder prints nicely without the right one pulling it off.


Unfortunately the screws holding the extruder in place are not that great and mine was stripped out using the allen wrench that was provided when I tried to calibrate them so that I could use both.

I am considering making another Replicator so I can have 2 of them and just use the other extruder, since it never gets used anyways.

Do you have any advice or insight on how difficult it would be to make another, know where to get the allen screw that is securing the heating element etc?



Rick