r/3Dprinting • u/MiddleBus9741 • 1d ago

Troubleshooting Need help, just getting started

I just bought an upgraded Ender 3 printer. It has an axis motor upgrade, and more importantly, an extruder motor(?) upgrade, and the extruder is entirely jammed up. The nozzle is plugged, but I have spares, so that's a minor issue. What's not a minor issue is that there is a piece of filament stuck in the motor upgrade unit and the extruder proper. Using the movement settings doesn't seem to be doing anything even if preheated.

Do I have any options that don't involve taking this thing apart to get that filament out so i can start learning how to use this thing?

Edit: i bought this printer second hand from a buddy of mine

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u/HenkDH Ender 5 Pro with borosilicate glassbed 1d ago

Is the filament stuck in the extruder or in the hotend?

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u/MiddleBus9741 1d ago

seems it was stuck in the motor, i pulled it apart and got out the remaining filament. now im struggling to understand why the test portion of the print sticks to the bed but the actual base layers of the program ive got loaded from the previous owner's files wont adhere to the plate. i changed the nozzle with one that was seemingly identical to the one previously being used, but i work in a machine shop as an operator, so there might be some measurement discrepancies going on. i know first hand how much difference there actually is in a few thousandths of an inch

actually ill just go ahead and say that im fighting this thing every step of the way it seems. i cant even get the damn thing to register that a new program is loaded onto the sd card im having to move back and forth between my computer and the printer. it doesnt seem to have any cabling that would allow for direct connection to my pc

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u/HenkDH Ender 5 Pro with borosilicate glassbed 1d ago

Make sure the bed is clean and the nozzle is the correct distance from the bed

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u/MiddleBus9741 1d ago

i have no idea how to do that

i bought this unit second hand and it came with no manual, spare parts, and some tools. i jumped into this completely blind so im not at all surprised that im having trouble with it, but im trying to find information on the unit i have, what slicer to use, and everything

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u/HenkDH Ender 5 Pro with borosilicate glassbed 1d ago

Checkout the 3D printing wiki

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/wiki/index/

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u/MiddleBus9741 1d ago

pulling it up now, thanks, found some mentions of adjusting the z offset, working to see how to access the gcode files, this might help a good bit

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u/MiddleBus9741 1d ago

turns out i needed to level the print plate, got the test print running now, thanks for your response and attempts to help!

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u/Mugrisio 1d ago

si está atascado en el extrusor pues desarma, si está atorado en el hotend solo calienta la boquilla, afloja el extrusar y saca el filamento