TAZ 6 Troubleshooting for Student Use

[jpost22]

I saw this thread about having print failures, and it’s given me a vague idea of where to try next.

@piercet

I ran into something similar once with my Taz. It turns out the small extruder gear setscrew had came loose, but just enough so it would randomly slip a little bit, but enough that the main gear was still turning, just not at the rate it was supposed to be going at. […] tighten the setscrew on the motor shaft of the extruder, check for a loose extruder motor plug, tighten the idler arm screws down to 8mm between the washers, and check the idler arm bearing itself to see if it still rotates freely.

I won’t lie, the gears on our extruder look nasty, kind of gunked up with dust and such. I wonder if giving them a clean and once-over might help. I might try to look into that, but I’d have to figure out how the hell to take the extruder off the assembly first.