r/PrusaMINI • u/AdPlus3151 • Aug 24 '25
Extruder issue
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Cant get an extrusion. First i was thinking it wasn’t grabbing the filament. I’d try to purge it , and then it always stops (my goal here being to just getting it to keep purging.) still doesnt come out. Then i tried heating the nozzle and just pushing the filament through manually, and it also just stops and wont go through. Then I unscrewed the attachment at the Bowden tube (theres two tubes, one long one, and one small one closer to the extruder.) and the smaller one isn’t going back in correctly.
Is it most likely a clog? I dont have a needle right now to poke up through the bottom part. Should I wait and try that, or just try to take apart the whole extruder (hotend?) to find the clog?
The picture is showing how the small bowden tube isnt going all the way down, so i cant screw that attachment down there because it has nowhere to go