{"id":20,"date":"2022-06-06T23:56:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T23:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-10-11T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T16:54:39","slug":"loading-filament","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/22-idex-setup\/22-idex-v1\/loading-filament\/","title":{"rendered":"Loading Filament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-luminous-vivid-amber-to-luminous-vivid-orange-gradient-background has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-466948bd wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-width:10px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>THIS WEBSITE IS DISCONTINUED <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>DOCUMENTATION IS NOW ON THE NEW 22 IDEX WIKI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.visionminer.com\">https:\/\/wiki.visionminer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-secondary-color\">22 IDEX v1 &#8211; BLTouch version<\/mark><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Loading and Unloading Filament - 22 IDEX Support by Vision Miner\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zfTCNnZy2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Turn on the machine<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check nozzle size\/type to ensure correctness for your chosen material<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pre-Heat the active nozzle to your desired material extrusion temperature<br>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ensure you have the correct toolhead set to &#8220;active&#8221;<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Put your spool on the spool mount, and hold one end of the filament<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Disconnect the filament tube from the top of the extruder<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>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<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pull out about 6 inches, and cut the end of the filament at a 45\u00ba angle<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the machine controls, select &#8220;extrude&#8221; for 100mm at 5mm\/s<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feed the end of the filament into the gears on the top of the extruder until it catches in the gears and feeds down<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensure the filament made it through the gears and down into the hotend<br>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you hear a clicking noise, the filament did not feed correctly, and you will want to restart at step 7<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extrude 10-100mm more until you see plastic coming out of the nozzle<br>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you do not see plastic coming out after several extrusions, re-start at step 7<br><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secure the PTFE tube back into the top of the extruder, and close the doors<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Begin printing, or set your nozzle to a standby temperature, to prevent filament from carbonizing in the hot nozzle<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unloading filament<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Set the active nozzle to your material&#8217;s extrusion temperature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Retract&#8221; 100mm at 15mm\/s OR pull the lever on top of the extruder, and pull the filament straight out<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unloading filament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":198,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/818"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.visionminer.com\/vmdoc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}