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Replace your bowden tubes occasionally. (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/3dprinting

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Was having clogging issues so I thought I'd replace and get the mythically good capricorn tubes. This is a good sign that I needed to.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Go the other way and buy 3mm tubing and see what it does :)

Fair enough bowden has a lot of issues like filament compression (which can't be fixed with tubing) making it difficult to maintain a steady flow when conditions aren't steady (e.g. acceleration and so on).

With larger diameter tubes the issue of filament compressing gets worse. In a nutshell, a larger tube diameter for "rigid" materials somewhat is similar to the effect of a softer filament/material.