Answered Filament stuck in hotend

Not sure if this is a clog or a jam, but I have a length of filament stuck in my R1+ hot end. After reading a forum thread here on how to remove the hotend and watching Novice Expert's video on the subject, I'm stuck at "and you can remove the filament."

When I push/pull on the filament, it is loose, but there is something on the end that is inside the hotend preventing me from pulling it all the way out. Is there more that I can take apart with the hot end while I've got it disassembled? Or is this something I'll have to put back together and heat up first?

 

You can start up your printer and make the hot end over 180 to get the filament melting... watch out for the hot end, but the hex part will be safe. Just grab the Filament with tweezers or needle nose and pull it out.

This happens often to me on my R1+ after I let everything sit for a couple days after a print.

Exposed filament will become brittle and snap.


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Thank you! I ended up losing the piece further in, but I heated the end and pushed it through with a different piece of filament and I think I got it all out one way or the other.