22 IDEX v1 – BLTouch version
- Turn on the machine
- Check nozzle size/type to ensure correctness for your chosen material
- Pre-Heat the active nozzle to your desired material extrusion temperature
- Ensure you have the correct toolhead set to “active”
- Put your spool on the spool mount, and hold one end of the filament
- Disconnect the filament tube from the top of the extruder
- Feed the filament into the PTFE tube at the back of the machine, and manually push it until it comes out the top of the tube
- Pull out about 6 inches, and cut the end of the filament at a 45º angle
- On the machine controls, select “extrude” for 100mm at 5mm/s
- Feed the end of the filament into the gears on the top of the extruder until it catches in the gears and feeds down
- Ensure the filament made it through the gears and down into the hotend
- If you hear a clicking noise, the filament did not feed correctly, and you will want to restart at step 7
- Extrude 10-100mm more until you see plastic coming out of the nozzle
- If you do not see plastic coming out after several extrusions, re-start at step 7
- Secure the PTFE tube back into the top of the extruder, and close the doors
- Begin printing, or set your nozzle to a standby temperature, to prevent filament from carbonizing in the hot nozzle
Unloading filament
- Set the active nozzle to your material’s extrusion temperature
- “Retract” 100mm at 15mm/s OR pull the lever on top of the extruder, and pull the filament straight out
