newbie - inserting the filament into the hose

Hello!

I think you have not read and understand the instructions or I missunderstand your problem.

If you put out the upper part from the printhead who's fixed the hose and have a look inside the printhead
there you see the transporter (picture). Here you must insert the filament and clamp it that the motor can move it to the hotend of the printhead.

i hope it helps

cheers, Klaus

First of all thanks for the speedy reply.

My problem is not inserting the filament inside the head itself, it is inserting first the filament into and out of the supply hose. On your picture are you using a white filament without any supply hose?

For clarity, here is what I have a hard time doing (excerpted from the manual): "Drag the filament feed hose together with the filament feed line up out of the printing head. Now guide the filament through the hose so that it comes out of the other side of the filament feed line.

Thanks

Hello!

i think that i was be to lazy with deleting my previus post who's not talk about your problem.

your picture shows the problem. The filament shold be easy to push into the hose.

have you try it from both sides, i think. Is this the same lenght of filament or the same position in the hose.

cheers Klaus

My hose is 50 cm long. I can easily push the filament for 15cm then it starts being a pain. At 20cm it is almost stuck. Whichever end I choose to insert into.

Maybe 50cm of hose is too much? I was planning on splitting it in 2? Are you really sending your 1,75mm filament smoothly through 50cm? A picture of your system is welcome 🙂

my hose are 50 cm, too

there is no problem to push the filament thru the hose.

The dimensions of my hose are inside 4 mm and 6 mm outside.

Your problem looks like not normal. But i don't know wy

Have a look at the small video
to the video

thank you for your video it is helpful because I see you are using a different hose in fact. In my S2/840 setup I got 2 hoses, a semi opaque one (50cm long) and a transparent one (much longer) that I am currently using for the spindle's air pump. Both have about the same outside diameter, but the transparent one is wider on the inside.

You seem to be using the latter, which is wider indeed, see pictures. The semi opaque is narrower, have been using this one for an other purpose?

I only bought the printhead and the 50 cm long hose from my video was a part of it.

maybe your hose is a newer version or an PTFE variant. But in PTFE the filament slips very easier.

I would ask about it at Stepcraft!

cheers Klaus

in your own practice, do you think 50cm is more than needed?

In my opinion ther is more as we needed.

But my maschine looks like very diferent :woohoo:

I have also stepcraft 2/840 and it came with the 50 cm long semi opaque tube for the filament (Acc. to ISO 7628 - cat.2 - 6x1.5mm - PA 10.12 PHL - LA - 7291 - 14 - 099 - 09:34:53). When I first tried to push the filament through, I could not so I first run my 3D printer head without the tube at all. Then I put the tube so it straightened up, i.e. during the transit it was bended up quite small circle, and that made pushing the filament through very hard. When it straightened up then I could push the filament in. It is not very easy and you quite often need to keep the tube straight before you can do it.

It seems the tube is not slippery at all from the inside (or from outside) and that makes it hard to push filament through. Once you get it through the printer head does not have any problems pulling more of it as needed.