• magnetosphere@fedia.io
    1·
    3 months ago

    A wire brush. Handheld, not attached to an electric grinder or something like that.

    Cheap wire brushes should be available in most hardware stores. I know that ours carries them in the paint section.

    Remove the nozzle and hold it with pliers or something.

      • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        PLA basically doesn’t dissolve in any (readily available consumer-grade) solvents. Your best bet is going to be to take the entire unit as far apart as you can until it is metal only components, heat it with a heatgun to make the PLA soft/melt, and brush it all off with a brass cleaning brush.

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I just bought a new heating element when that happened to me.

    I might go back with some acetone now after reading others’ comments.

  • Kraiden@kbin.earth
    0·
    3 months ago

    OK, you’re gonna need some things:

    A heat gun, A wire brush, Bandaids, A stiff drink

    • akilou@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I heated up the nozzle separately in some boiling water and scraped off almost all of it. Then I put it back into the hot end and heated it up to 200 C, took it back out and q-tipped off a lot of the rest. There’s still some but I’m running a print right now and it’s working fine.

    • thenextguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      A SWAT team ready to mobilize, street level maps covering all of Florida, a pot of coffee, 12 Jammy Dodgers and a fez.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Metal piece with many pointy pieces and neodymium magnets in a microwave? The sparks will damage the item and the oven. And won’t melt the plastic