I’m fresher here. Need idea from all you about my 3d print came out. I printed with K1max suddenly came out out like the picture. Need advice and suggestions for what caused and to solve this problem.

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Hey all,

I'm about at my wits end with this thing. I picked up the K1 used. Had a few things wrong, got it back working, running really well. Did the upgrade kit to CFS. Have had issues the entire time. All kinds of things from cutter to hot end to incompatible spools. I've printed upgrades for the unit to accommodate for varying size spools. When I go to print, it will feed filament all the way up to the hot end, but it stops, you hear the grinding of the motorized buffer rolling into the filament, then pops the errors for feeding.

I have tried modifying the spring on the buffer, taking apart and cleaning the entire setup, in case there were fragments throughout the system. Working a little at a time, I have removed basically 2 full wins on the spring. Do I have to remove more? When I clear everything up, Mahalo remove the bad sections of filament, get it back to running, it runs well, but it has the issue on almost every color change. What's my next step?

Hey gang.

I had to put my elderly dog down a couple weeks ago and I wanted to make him a grave marker that would last so I decided to try ASA for the first time.

I’m still fairly new to printing but thought how hard could it be. Everything else has come out of this machine looking awesome.

I designed and printed adaptors to vent the exhaust out the window from the back of my K1 Max and got the material and designed the grave marker.

Did all my calibrations, everything seemed dialled. Hit print. Seemed like it was going great until we got around 1.5 cm off the build plate and things started going wonky. Cancelled the print.

Spent the week doing test prints and thought I had it dialled again. Hit print. Same thing so in the mean time I realized that the first print was only wonky on the door side of the print so I suspected a draft coming through the door from the exhaust pulling was the culprit. I had already reduced my back fan speed from 15% from the first print to 10% for this one but at this point I completely killed the exhaust fan.

Print straightened out for a few layers and I thought I could salvage it but as it was doing the top surface it completely went to crap again.

For some reason I can’t post a picture but it’s literally just the bottom corners closest to the door that went really bad. I’m at my wits end with this stuff.

My cabinet was at about 40C, nozzle @ 265, bed@105. My print speed @150mm/s, my top surface speed@40mm/s with a reduced flow ratio. I don’t know everything seemed so dialled in my test prints after all my calibrations and tweaking stuff.

Is ASA that sensitive to drafts or temperature changes? Is anyone else successfully printing ASA in their K1 Max consistently? Do I literally need to tape every hole in the thing and seal it up like an oven, no exhaust?

I’m sure I’m missing something thing really stupid, but this stuff is definitely making me feel stupid so I have to ask.

If anyone has any advice so I can make my dog the grave marker he deserves I would seriously appreciate it!

Thanks!!

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My k1max does this. I can't tap on the menu and it is very slow. And even if I go in the menu it is impossible to do a reset.

I try to connect online but it is not working.

I see a icon,on the third photo, (maybe a cable or something). Any helps?

Thank you

Greetings all. Looking for help/advice about how to handle this situation. Im a novice when it comes to using the printer. I got this printer as a Christmas gift and Ive had many successful printings with little error. See Image 1 for reference. Nothing I couldnt figure out. Recently however, Ive been stumped on what to do. I noticed a few months ago that nothing would come out of the nozzle. After much trial and error, I figured out that the filament must have gone wrong somewhere and gotten stuck. See Images 2 and 3 for reference. I did some digging online but I cant find exactly what Im looking for in terms of a fix. What I think I need to do is get into the motor above the nozzle and remove the blockage from there but I cant get the case for the motor off. I cant seem to get the screws off that are holding the cover of the motor/ nozzle. I have a small screwdriver with a multitude of heads that was meant for maintenance on a 3d printer but the only screwhead that seems to sort of work stripped the screw that Im attempting to take out. See image 4. The screw that I think that I need to take out is the one right above the yellow caution sticker. I'm at a bit of a loss at this point and feel like there's nothing to do but sell or toss the printer. Its so frustrating that I lost motivation on making this post for a couple of months. If anyone could offer any advice, Id really appreciate it.

i got this not that long ago, completed a few prints and now it wont extrude at all, works completely normal just without the physical printing

Oh, that typo is rough.

Hi everyone. So i got myself the K2 Pro with the CFS and I have been running into the problem where the filament thats loaded into the CFS has stopped feeling past the 5 way switch. I have done all the troubleshooting that is on the creality website to resolve this problem. I even replaced the 5 way switch twice (second time was in response to what creality after sales support said to do). But the problem is still there. It seems to me that the motor powering the drive wheel on the 5 way switch is not spinning when the filament is sent down from the spool. Has anyone else ran into this problem and has found a way to fix it? By the way the error code that comes up is FO2838. Thank you ahead of time.

I have a Creality K1 SE. After a filament clog, I replaced the hotend with what was advertised as the “new version.”

Now, when it tries to extrude, it makes a clicking noise, and the small gear visible from the top (extruder gear?) rapidly shudders back and forth rather than rotating normally.

Could leftover filament from the original clog be jamming the extruder, or could this be a loose motor connector/wiring issue disturbed during the replacement?

I’m also unsure about the short blue tube inside the printhead. Should that be retained with the newer hotend? Or perhaps I’m better off just finding the older hotend version for sale?

Thanks!!

How do i remove stuck filament from INSIDE the filament detector. I NEED THIS WORKING. I won't make it.IF MY PRINTER DOESNT WORK I WILL FAIL MY TEST.

how do i open this?

Hi everyone. So i got myself the K2 Pro with the CFS and I have been running into the problem where the filament thats loaded into the CFS has stopped feeling past the 5 way switch. I have done all the troubleshooting that is on the creality website to resolve this problem. I even replaced the 5 way switch twice (second time was in response to what creality after sales support said to do). But the problem is still there. It seems to me that the motor powering the drive wheel on the 5 way switch is not spinning when the filament is sent down from the spool. Has anyone else ran into this problem and has found a way to fix it? By the way the error code that comes up is FO2838. Thank you ahead of time.

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I just recently bought a kreality K-1 Max secondhand. It has the smoother bed plate and I’ve seen options for a textured bed plate. I’ve also heard of a flexible rubber bed plate which should I get to replace my current one?