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Cleaning filament question

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  1. Mike Toole

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    Has anyone had experience with Cleaning filament? What are your thoughts? Good thing, bad thing, waste of time?

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    I have some. its essentially nylon lol. Get a spool of nylon and do cold pulls :D
     
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    I have used cleaning filament in the past and it does work, but so does the Atomic Pull. That is take a short length of filament and put it in your hotend, heat it up to about 220° C then cool it to 160°, then grab the end and yank it out. That will usually trap any residue in the cooled filament and it will be pulled out with the filament.
     
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  4. Mike Toole

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    sorry, but what is a "cold pull"? Thanks waldo,I understand now.. I will have to give that a shot. How often would you suggest doing that? every spool change or monthly?
     
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    I rarely do it myself brass nozzles are cheap, and if you source them from China you can put on a new one every week for a year for just a few bucks. Geof had a link to really cheap ones.
     
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    I just got a bag of 8 nozzles so I may just do that for a while when in doubt. ;)
     
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    Geof posted a link for someone who sells by the hundreds I think, maybe he can pull that one back out of his bag of tricks.
     
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    Somewhat on the same topic, when done printing for the day or maybe three days let’s say, is it ok to leave the extruder loaded or should I warm pull (new term ) the filament and leave the extruder empty?


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    I don't really think it matters one way or another, I leave the filament loaded.
     
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