{"id":3683,"date":"2016-09-05T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2016-09-05T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:55:07","slug":"plastic-leaking-up-through-the-hotend-dripping-into-prints-causing-a-lot-of-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"Plastic leaking up through the hotend, dripping into prints, causing a lot of problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>I have a folgertech Kossel 2020, this is the closest picture I could find, this is what I have minus the dual fan aluminum plate thing.Plastic is leaking up through the bottom (Where there&#8217;s a gap between the hotend and the heatsink), spilling over the hotend, sliding down the hotend (in the process plugging up the set screws for the thermistor, let&#8217;s hope that never craps out), crawling under, down the nozzle, and finally, onto the print.Basically, every 45-60 minutes it globs down onto the print. Then it solidifies, and then when the nozzle smacks into the glob, it&#8217;s pretty loud, and about 50% of the time the belts skip on the gears, ruining the print. Anyone have any ideas? http:\/\/ift.tt\/2cdEHJD<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a folgertech Kossel 2020, this is the closest picture I could find, this is what I have minus the dual fan aluminum plate thing.Plastic is leaking up through the bottom (Where there&#8217;s a gap between the hotend and the heatsink), spilling over the hotend, sliding down the hotend (in the process plugging up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=3683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Plastic leaking up through the hotend, dripping into prints, causing a lot of problems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}