3D Printing: Ultimaker 2 ticking sound coming from feeder (3 Solutions!)
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 26/06/2019

3D Printing: Ultimaker 2 ticking sound coming from feeder


The Question: Recently, the ticking sounds started to come from feeder of my UM2. Inspecting
it I have noticed that once in a while stepper motor jumps back for few steps.
I have an idea of what can be the reason, but I just want to hear what you can
think of. That is the video of feeder during the printing :) youtu.be/
z6CzudMOeD0 First tick at 10sec

Solutions: Please watch the whole video to see all solutions, in order of how many people found them helpful

== This solution helped 2 people ==
I had the same issue. It can happen for number of reasons. One of them is too
low print temperature as stepper cant push the filament through. Also you could
have partially blocked nozzle or if you print with PLA and have left it out for
a while its diameter can enlarge and get stuck in the bowden tube.

== This solution helped 5 people ==
Ultimately, your stepper motor is unsuccessful in driving the filament through
the extruder. A couple potential reasons:
 * extruder temperature isn't high enough. This could either be operator
 error from not setting the temperature correctly or your machine is
 getting a false reading. Typically, for ABS/PLA, you can get away with a
 low extruding temperature of about 210c.
 * filament tension is too high. This happens if, say, your spool of
 filament gets kinked or wrapped around the spool spindle.
 * your nozzle is clogged. I've encountered where I had back flow coming out
 of the nozzle (filaments oozed around from the hotend at the threads).
 This was a result of not putting the hotend back together correctly.
 There was a enough hardened plastic backed up in the hotend that when I
 threaded the nozzle back on, it technically didn't fit back on all the
 way.

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