Extruding; Removing The Filament From The Extruder - CraftBot Plus PRO User Manual

5.3. Extruding

• Enter into the extruder
• You can also use the "extrude"
you press the icon and will give you more control over the filament movement.
•
Push the filament into the extruder hole, against the drive gear and press the extrude or load filament button
on the screen. The load button will extrude 15 cm of filament automatically, this can be interrupted by pressing
the back button.

5.4. Removing the filament from the extruder

Never remove the filament from the extruder if the extruder is cold! Always preheat the extruder before removing
or changing filaments. Removing the filament from a cold extruder might damage it! You don't have to remove the
filament between prints.
•
Heat the extruder as described above
• When the extruder reaches the temperature required for the filament (note that different filaments, such as PLA,
ABS, and PET filaments have different temperature characteristics), press the reverse button
down or press the filament reverse button
• When the gears start to retract the filament, you can safely pull out the rest of the filament from the guide tube
and connect the end of the filament to the spool for safe keeping. Now you are ready to load a new filament.
menu.
menu to extrude the filament. This will only rotate the gear wheel every time
, which automatically performs the operations.
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