Ok, so I pulled the trigger on a 3d printer. 1 big issue...

I went with a Creality K1. Aside from some initial confusion getting it set up, it was fantastic.

So, I did run out of the filament that it was packaged with. No biggie, I bought extra. But once it was changed, the printer is no longer printing properly. It'll print like 20% then just stop extruding filament. It continues on as if it is, and will say it completed the job even though it didn't do it at all.

I've been googling the last couple of days, and all I can find is that possibly the extruder is faulty? Apparently this model sometimes ships with faulty extruders that sound like it gives similar issues to what I have. Haven't really found much info about that though, some YouTube videos mentioned it and said you can get a replacement for $2.00 but I'm only seeing $60 ones, and I'm not even 100% that's what the issue is.

Anyone here with experience that can maybe point me in the right way? Confirm whether it may be the extruder and which to buy to replace it or something.

Hmmmm, I would really post this on the K1 Reddit, but if you're not using creality print with the default profile for the K1 I would try that first...

If you got through a whole spool without any issues I really don't see your extruder going bad in that timeframe, but idk

When it's still going but not actually printing anything do you hear any clicking, can you see if the extruder gears are still turning and trying to grab filament and push it through? (On my K1 Max I can see the extruder gears from the back side of the print head), maybe either extruder gears giving out and not being able to grab the filament, or your nozzle listing the heat it needs to extruder properly

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If you got through a whole spool without any issues I really don't see your extruder going bad in that timeframe, but idk

That's the thing. The first spool worked totally fine, no issues at all. Second spool, immediately having issues. So I thought maybe I'd bought some kind of wrong filament, but it doesn't seem like it's any different than the first spool aside from color(packaged one was white, purchased is black).

Idk... I was looking over the subreddit earlier, but didn't see it mentioned. I mean, it sounds like similar issues to a faulty extruder, but like you said, it wouldn't go bad that quickly. It was literally perfectly fine 2 minutes earlier.

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When it's still going but not actually printing anything do you hear any clicking, can you see if the extruder gears are still turning and trying to grab filament and push it through? (On my K1 Max I can see the extruder gears from the back side of the print head), maybe either extruder gears giving out and not being able to grab the filament, or your nozzle listing the heat it needs to extruder properly

I haven't noticed anything, it's pretty noisy anyway and I didn't particularly notice any different sounds going on. Sounds the same as it did when printing properly, as far as I recall. I'm at work now so I can't check it.

Yeah definitely ask the reddit boys, I haven't had to do any troubleshooting on my K1 Max yet so anything I've got is pure speculation

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Yeah definitely ask the reddit boys, I haven't had to do any troubleshooting on my K1 Max yet so anything I've got is pure speculation

Man, I really didn't want to do that. I'll see if I can find more info around first, then do that if I can't figure anything else out.

Thank you very much for always being so helpful.

Did you make sure you flip the little switch lock on top of the print head back to lock whenever you changed filament?

Maybe retract filament via the printer display, pull your filament out snip a new end and rethread the filament into the printer?

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Did you make sure you flip the little switch lock on top of the print head back to lock whenever you changed filament?

Maybe retract filament via the printer display, pull your filament out snip a new end and rethread the filament into the printer?

Yeah, did that. But will try that again tomorrow.