Hi so my printer was fine until oneday a print finished with some under extrusion, when I check it seems to extruded in little beads (which combine into blobs as seen in the photo) during prints but not when told to extrude through octo print. Brand new filiment so humidity isn't an issue, I've tried leveling the bed (glass with bltouch), using glue stick, cleaning the nozzle, I cleaned the hot end, sniped down the bowing tube and made sure it was flush with the nozzle. I'm at my whits end and am about to start praying to the omnisiere for divine intervention. Any help would be appreciated.
That extrusion seems awfully fat for a 0.4mm nozzle. But also probably shows that your extruder is pushing mostly fine.
If it's a silk filament, however, they tend to die-swell much more than others.
Stop "leveling the bed". If you've leveled it once, it's probably good enough - the problem is most definitely in your extruder or somewhere else.
What extruder are you using (the thing that pushes the plastic?) You've shown your hot end, but not the business end of the thing that feeds the filament.
Stock ender 3 with metal body
Good stuff. It looks like you put the lock washer on the M4 nut that holds the idler bearing on the arm correctly. Soooo many people fuck that simple thing up.
The set screw doesn't seem to be aligned with the flat on the motor shaft - I'd make sure that's tightened up; but otherwise, everything looks fine...ish.
Only thing I see missing is something called a "Rivnut"; it looks kind of like a little thimble looking thing -- it's supposed to go inside of the spring, and cover the M4 buttonhead and act as a tensioner - but in most cases, you don't need to be adjusting that anyways, so what you have here is fine. Good job assembling it correctly.