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help me new extruder heat sink gap

Posted: May 16th, 2018, 3:55 pm
by MxDemo
so i bought a new heat sink but i don't know how it has a gap and the filament just get jam, did i bought the wrong tipe or am I making something wrong? you can see the heatsink and the clogged.
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Re: help me new extruder heat sink gap

Posted: May 17th, 2018, 12:51 pm
by LePaul
What hot end/heat sink package is that....or is this stock with your printer (which is?)

Re: help me new extruder heat sink gap

Posted: May 17th, 2018, 2:10 pm
by MxDemo
i'm not really sure what you mean, but i bought the printer and it have a heat sink like that so i bought exactly the sameone but it has that wierd gap tbh i don't know what is going on haha, i put a photo of the default extruder and heatsink
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Re: help me new extruder heat sink gap

Posted: May 18th, 2018, 11:53 am
by Lez0
I think they should be a plastic tube in there.

Re: help me new extruder heat sink gap

Posted: May 18th, 2018, 2:07 pm
by LePaul
Yeah, like a PTFE liner or something