# Filament Stripping Issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Filament\ **Created:** [June 30, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/filament-stripping-issues/662 "2014-06-30T00:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![smiley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@smiley](https://forum.lulzbot.com/u/smiley)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 12:57am UTC](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/filament-stripping-issues/662/1 "2014-06-30T00:57:46Z")
Hello Everyone, First time poster long time reader. Here it goes… I built my TAZ from source and have had my fair share of up’s and downs with it. I had a Prusa i2 before I built the TAZ and loved it. Once it was dialed in I could print for hours without any issues. I was using a wades style extruder with a jhead and never had any problems with filament stripping or leaky nozzles. I have calibrated the E-steps several times, double-checked the gears on the extruder, have a fan on the nozzle(devzero mount), purchased different filament, tried different tensions on the extruder springs, printed the new filament arm from the TAZ 3 thinking the real was binding… I just can get a successful print. I had originally purchased a replica buda off of ebay and thought there might be something up with the nozzle so I purchased one from Lulzbot. I installed the new nozzle and was able to print a few things before the stripping came back. Any help is greatly appreciated and I am all ears on any ideas on how to fix this. Attached are my slic3r and config.h files. I am printing with 3mm PLA filament at 180C. The stripping doesn’t seem to happen as often with ABS, [Configuration.h](https://forum.lulzbot.com/uploads/short-url/8GuWhaqkjqtrRmH25qH6JMB3gTi.h) (23.8 KB) [Taz-Backup\_62914.ini](https://forum.lulzbot.com/uploads/short-url/j701gnNMkayTe3BJ6hWX4UIriiV.ini) (3.2 KB) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.lulzbot.com/t/filament-stripping-issues/662)._