Large bulb of ABS filament attached to extruder (Makerbot Repllicator 2X)

[oblazer]

I have a Makerbot Relicator 2x and have encountered an issue that I need to fix.

I irresponsibly left it unattended for ~1hr and when I returned, I found that the filament had not left the extruder properly and is now firmly attached to the extruder. Has anyone ever encountered this before and know of a way to remedy the situation?

Thanks in advance

Picture for reference:
IMG_20150611_085820.jpg

[3dkarma]

Can you heat up the hot ends to loosen it?

[LambdaFF]

Happend to me before on a printrbot. Heat the hot ends and start prying bits off with a needle nose plier.

[curious aardvark]

oh yeah been there several times.

Get the extruder hot and just pull, pick and yank it all off.
Should work fine after that.

Doesn't look like you've got much there.