Solved Leaking Heat Block on Inlet

HI,

I have had my printer an R1 plus for about a month and have been learning, experimenting and lurking on the forums and picking up a lot of good information, thanks all. Everything has been going pretty well until today, I was printing and noticed a couple of blobs on the project, I noticed melted filament coming from the top of the heat block on the inlet side. My power company FPL was very kind and 3/4 thru the project with no storm they gave me a power blip so instead of getting upset I thought it would be a good time to learn how to take the extruder out and see why there was filament coming from the top. I removed the extruder and the entire top was covered with melted filament. I took the nozzle out and made sure it was clear, heat and used a drill bit to clear. The inlet side doesn't appear to have a tapered thread so tightening it wouldn't help. I reassembled everything. In the course of doing this I may have damaged the thermistor wire because I was getting intermittent error messages on my controller "Max Temp Error" I restarted and it went away. However my problem of melted filament leaking out of the inlet continues. Can anyone offer some insight, I have ordered a new E3D V6 kit (not the cheap one I read about here). Sorry for the length, thanks in advance

 

Thanks, that what I thought I called support and they were not helpful, even offered to by a new head, they don't have them and couldn't tell where or how to order one. I know I have to print parts for the e3dv6 so I wanted a reliable hot end. I did order the m3 stud you suggested, will I have any code changes with it? Thanks again

 

Appreciate the offer, I'll make it work somehow, good experience. It's printing now for about 2 hours with no problem other than an occasional blob here and there. Should be able to hobble through and if I do it right I can always reprint the parts with the new head if the other are not up to par. Anything else you suggest I do while I am at it?

Thanks