Partially Solved Extruder not pulling filament with new E3D V6 hotend

Tighten the screws for the hobbed bolt/feed?

 

See the seasoning thread : http://community.robo3d.com/index.p...hotend-jam-clogs-seasoning-and-an-oiler.3564/

Sounds like something other than the gear/hobbed bolt since NONE of that needed to be reworked to install an E3D.

Try the seasoning first.

 

also make sure you can manually push the filament through ... you can do that when you season it

Just in case you have something mechanically blocking...

 

Unless this was a problem before you swapped the E3D in or there is something else that we are not aware of, it is not going to be a mechanical issue on the feed mechanism (since the extruder was not touched -- just the hotend). The gears and feed for the extruder should be identical.

If this was always a problem and the E3D swap is incidental then either you have a problem with the hobbed bolt or the Gregs Wade Idler block (sometimes called the Guidler) and that is the part that presses the filament into the hobbed bolt (the bearing actually presses it in place the the plastic part of the guidler keeps it in line)

 

For what it is worth, everything I see in the pictures looks normal.

 

Inconsistent extrusion is almost certainly related to seasoning if it is PLA filament.

 

Just a side-note/story: My original Robo Beta had the J-Head style hotend that was barely usable for ABS.
So I swapped it when the machine first arrived for an E3D -- everything worked fine.

It took almost a year before I had need to swap the nozzle and as soon as I did -- clog city.
I was ripping my hair out trying to solve it, Small prints would (generally) work, but anything of size would fail.

Seasoned the nozzle and never looked back. I now do it for all of the printers and even run an oiler most of the time just to not worry about it.

 

Then it is not seasoning that will help.
However you need to sanity check your feed path.
Either the hobbed bolt is not lined up over the feed hole or the PTFE is the incorrect size (2mm id, 4mm od) or your filament is not consistently in spec (too far out from 1.75). or there is something else mechanically awry in the feed path. Make sure everything is lined up correctly (again -- from what I can see in the pictures it looks OK, but that is not the same as eyeballs and hands on the machine). Disassemble the E3D amd make sure the PTFE liner is intact. Maybe that got damaged...

(p.s. all of this assumes you are using an actual authentic E3D v6, not a Chinese knock-off)