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Seeking Advice: K1 Max heat break stuck in heatsink (SOLVED) (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by 4lan to c/3dprinting

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My K1 Max had a bed leveling error and printed for a while with the nozzle pressed into the bed so filament couldn't come out, causing a bad clog.

I painstakingly stripped the machine down just to get access to the hot end, and the heatsink and heat break are completely fused. (yes I removed grub screw)

The throat seems to be able to spin within the rest of the heat break, I don't think that's normal but I'm used to enders and cr10.

What I've tried:

mini-torch on heat sink, then tried to pull hard out
Oven for 1hr at 200F
Freezer for 1 hour, THEN torch on heat sink
Heated the metal needle thing they provided, and stabbed that through the filament path
Tried to heat and remove the nozzle, but it is also completely stuck

I reached out to Creality a week ago and they have not replied.
The heat sink is not even available online, so I am dead in the water until they send me a new heatsink.

Does anyone have any other ideas???

UPDATE!!! (for those who have this in the future)

I finally got it! It took multiple cycles of putting it in my toaster oven at 450F for 20 minutes at a time.

I was able to get the nozzle removed after a couple cycles, which gave me hope.

I did two more cycles, trying to pull them apart each time. Finally it barely started to budge with lots of effort. I saw it was out about 0.5mm. I grabbed my torch and blasted that sucker right at the hole where the grub screw comes out from. Kept heating, pulling, heating pulling. Eventually it slid right out!

Here's the crazy part. There was 0 filament residue in there when I got it out. I have no idea what was locking it in place. If it simply burned away there would have been carbon residue at least. Both the heat break and heat sink were clean... It's almost like they JB welded it in place lol

I am so happy I wont be having to wait weeks for Creality to respond, then more weeks for them to ship a new heatsink. Going to use the spare hot-end that came with the printer and get this puppy printing again! Thanks again for the advice @dual_sport_dork

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[–] 4lan 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

considering I'm replacing the entire hotend it should be good!

they provide a spare heater-heatbreak-nozzle assembly in the box (thankfully)

Now I have to figure out how to put it back together lol. its like 10x as complicated as my Ender3 due to being super compact. It's like repairing an Audi vs a Toyota lol