How To Fix A Jam on the Ender 3 S1 Pro (FULL Walkthrough)
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- The Sprite Extruder on my Ender 3 S1 Pro jammed! In this video we walk through how to tear down the Sprite extruder in order to get it unjammed. It was more work than I thought it would be for sure!
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Yet another thank you for this helpful video as I'm unjammed and printing again. I recently upgraded from a bowden setup to the Sprite Extruder Pro and had my first jam at print #5. Had no idea an "un-jam" would be so involved, but here we are. I very much hope this process isn't a regular occurrence. Cheers again.
Thanks so much for this video! Had my S1 for a week-and-a-half, and some tangled filament caused the end to snap off inside the extruder. Followed the "shortcut" you mention at the end, and was able to clear out the jam after removing only those three screws.
Thank you so much for this video!!! I had a clogged extruder and followed the Creality video, which wasn’t sufficient. I had to disassemble the hot end and extruder. I found a tiny, plastic nugget about 1.75 mm cubed that was lodged in the extruder. Without your step by step video, I wouldn’t have had the nerve to take it all apart. You’re the best!
Cannot thank you enough for making this video. I have an ender 3 S1, not pro, i’ve had a nasty clog in my line I doubt I would’ve had the confidence to take it apart myself and fix it had you not made this video. I wasn’t as lucky as you I actually had to disassemble the whole thing to get to the clog it was on the top not the bottom of the extruder and it actually gone sideways as well as clogging the top. Thanks again man would have been able to clear this one without you! 🙏😎👍
i had what sounds like the exact problem with my S1...thank god for the video :)
You sir are a lifesavior! Cannot thank you enough! I had a tiny piece jammed inside the extruder.
Your teardown was a lifesaver. I had a piece of filament that broke/clogged above the ptfe and below the gears. I couldn't for life get it up or push it down and my gears were spinning freely, not even touching the piece. I had to do a full teardown to even grip the piece with pliers between the gears and yank it out. Most other videos did the shortcut you showed at the end, but that would definitely not have been enough for my problem. Thank you! I was going to buy a direct drive for my ender3 but after this clog on my S1 I'm definitely not lmao
Hey! I just wanted to say that this video saved my bacon, thank you very much for putting this up there! Definitely a pain in the rear to take apart that first time, but you made it incredibly straight-forward.
Thanks for this video. I ran into a similar issue where I couldn't load filament on my Ender 3 S1 and disassembling the extruder was just the ticket. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!
Thank you! Your video was perfect and exactly what I needed to fix my jam! Your videos are always top-notch. Keep it up.
Thank you so much for this video - I’ve got a sprite on my ender 3 pro, and it jammed up HARD last night. After watching this I was able to take apart the extruder with confidence. Not only was my filament jammed up the way yours was in this video, a piece had broken off and jammed in the upper feeder so I HAD to take it apart to get all the bad filament out safely. Changing out the nozzle wouldn’t have fixed the problem (though I did that anyway), because the filament broke off above the gears.
It’s running again now, hooray!
Your video helped me to unclog the extruder on my Cr-M4. The steps were just about the same. Thank you, you've gained a subscriber.
Not a lot of good videos on Sprite system disassembly. I appreciate you, it helped me clear a clog that happened to be in multiple spots!
This video was a major help. I was ready to buy a whole new drive and hot end after only 5 small prints.. Your video was very informative and helped me to solve the problem right away.... after i had to rebuild it twice as I forgot a screw somewhere and had to take it apart till I got it right.
Thank you. This video was extremely helpful. I got my extruder working again. Great job brother.
Bro.. I just got my first 3D printer about 2 months ago. I got an Ender 3 S1. I got a bad just like the one you fixed and I would have never been able to get it fixed, if I had not watched your video. Keep up the great work I look forward to all of the videos you make. Thanks again.
super helpful! I just one of those hot ends for my ender 3 v2 and now i know how to unjam it if needed. Thank you!
Thank you so much! After my first print, it seems a bit of plastic got stuck inside one of the gears. This helped me get the extruder open and the problem fixed! I'm now happily printing again 😇
Great explanation of what to do. I just hit this problem and was thinking, how do I solve this one. Then I thought, I bet Edge of Tech will have me covered, and you didn't let me down. Thank you so much.
I've had my S1 Pro for 48 hours and this happened after 5 prints, appreciate the video, stripped mine down last night but not far enough, will hopefully get it working tonight, thank you again
Same for me!
Same with mine. Just 5 prints and sh*t happened. I am trying to exchange with new one from the seller.
@@bakhtiyaralam6696 did you end up getting a new one? And where did you buy your printer?
I had the same problem today (3 days of use printer and I'm also new into this). Glad I found your video
Thank you so much for this video. Im using a Sprite Extruder Pro Kit on my Ender 3v2, and though there are very slight differences, your video guided me to success. I was able to removed the lodged piece of filament and reassemble without a hitch. Big thanks :D
Very well done video. I really liked the way you described and indicated each screw and step. It made it very clear how to take it apart.
This was brillant!
You have fixed my issues with a fantastic video.
Thank you!
I found this video very helpful. I had a blocked extruder . great job
thankyou so much for this video, this just happened to me and i was freaking out thinking i broke it, turns out a piece of filament hardened and got stuck in the hotend even after I used that nozzle cleaner needle, dissasembled as per your video and grabbed a 3mm piece of filament from the tube, put it all back and now im back in business.. you are a legend.. thanks again.
I just did your very last step in the video first two little bolts and I was able to get to my filament absolutely perfect idea it worked excellent thank you for this well done video
All I needed was LAST step at the end, 😊😊😊
3 min change!!
Thanks a lot! This will save me time in the future. You explained the consruction very well!
I've the same problem with my S1 and your tutorial 100% worked! Thanks a bunch!
Thank you for such an awesome helpful video! Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you so much the tech guy. Your tear down video is really a life saver lifesaver. you just saved e from spending a lot of money and I learnt a few new things. Thank you so much.
Thanks for this video! Helped me decide what to get when I upgrade my hotend.
Thank you! The was the only video I could find to help me with my stuck gears.
Thank you so much I had a clog in the gears and for the life of me was thinking I had to replace the whole thing but this video helped a lot.
I had no clue how this all worked.. after watching this video, I was confident I wouldn't mess anything up by taking this module a part. Thanks.
My clog was in the heat break but your video showed me where the "extra" bolt and tube came from lol. Gonna reassemble correctly now thanks!
Thank you. Really helped us fix our problem. You're awesome.
Thanks a lot.. You showed me that it was possible to open the block and how to do it.. I loved it!
Thank you so much for this video! I was able to fix my ender s1!
Thanks for the video. Glad to see that PTFE tube doesn’t extend into the hot end.
OMG I didn't even need to finish watching the entire video to know that I have no interest in converting over to the Sprite. I actually bought it on sale and it's sitting on my desk. I was thinking about upgrading my Ender 3 with this and a new screen and board. Nah, I'll just stick with my earlier MicroSwiss direct drive and keep things simple. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together. I've been watching your content for years!
Another thank you - it's now the second time this video helped me. As mentioned in many other comments here, the filament did not get stuck at the hotend, but in above the ptfe tube at the gears. This happens to me with filaments that require a high temperature. I am not sure yet how to prevent this. However, you may have also noticed in Creality's official video on filament changing that they pull the filament out very quickly. I will try this in the future and hope it prevents jamming. It may also be good to wait long enough for all the filament in the hotend to melt properly.
Excellent video. I first removed the hotend (at 230°C). Then I cooled everything down and disassembled it. This helped me not to have to remove the glued connections of the hotend.
This was so helpful. Thank you, you got a like and a new subscriber
Had a jam last night that was caused by my filament being twisted, rookie mistake it appears but I'm a rookie so that's my excuse.
Once I opened up the extruder I saw that the filament had stretched and jammed up by the gears and was an easy fix due to this video.
Thanks a lot for helping to get my printer going again.
Oh shit I am subbed to you already lol. You come into my hobby store job from time to time.
This also reminds me that I need to get a direct drive upgrade to my Ender3 v2
I saw that other method in another video but learning how to take it all the way apart like that is also very useful. Thank you for this video.
Glad it helped!!
I'm in hopes I'll never have a jam but if I do let me thank you beforehand...........MANY THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
I can't tell you how great your videos are and you explain it so simple even a hard head like myself can get the just of it
Thanks again Sir
My Aquila X2 requires 1 screw to remove to gain access to hot end. Seems like could have made this more serviceable. Looking forward to get one of these to be my 3rd machine but waiting for long term use reports. Great walkthrough!
You really helped me solve the problem.... Yet I needed the video screwing everything back into place.
Thank you for your lesson. This was very helpful to pull the extruder apart. My issue was exactly the same as yours, I think my issue was caused by "heat creep". Looking at the piece of filament as it just enters the PTFE tube, it was slightly swollen. I have had my 3 S1, for about a year, and have just done prints up to 2 days. My clog occurred on the third day, of a 5 days job. Important to note! I have an enclosure, and the inside temp was up to 40 deg C. This might have been my problem. It is now summer and we had a 37 deg C day when this occurred (previously, was winter and spring, so the enclosure did it job). So have to see about regulating the enclosure to about 30 deg C. Or, have a better heat block cooler. That was my take, and again thanks.
I am facing same problem just after 5 prints. Thanks for exposing this problem to the community and suggesting a solution. I am trying to replace this with new printer from seller as it is within exchange period.
Thanks for making this video. I just ordered the S1 Pro. I just want to prepare myself before this type of stuff happens. Plus its nice to know how to disassemble the hotend!
it's a little scary at first, I will admit, but having just done this, it wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.
Thank you! This video really helped me
THANK YOU so much for your video. That was exactly what I needed. I wouldn't have been brave enough to do that myself.
One question: How do you make your printer extrude 10mm of filament. Where is that control?
Thanks so much!!! Couldn't have fixed my clog without you!!! I did really well until I reached the extruder and all the parts fell out - including the spring - took about half an hour to get that back together, still not sure if I have the right spring tension but it seems to be printing okay? A an aside, my cause of clog was the screws holding the nozzle section came loose, the nozzle gouged the pei plate and wrecked the nozzle and I didn't realise and kept shoving filament in. Ironically I always watch the first few layers but had a knock at the door - when I got back a few minutes later it was too late for the pei plate..... Thanks again!
The video helped me a whole lot. I am new to 3D printing. Got the S1 as well. Just had my filament get stuck in the extruder today. Mine was caused by the filament spool having a cross over in the middle of the spool. As it got stuck, it spun the gears on the filament and jammed it up. I could not for the life of me get it to come out. Two spools in a row had this problem. 1st one i caught and had to unspool about 30 feet to fix the spool. The second one i was at work. Good thing it was only about 30 minutes into a 10 hour run.
Yip, happened overnight. I was doing a long print and I knew it would be overnight, so when I checked this AM, I was out of filament- DANG!. Re spooled and started over, after an hour I noticed no go. I followed your video but went straight to the hotend where I found the end of the last spool clogging up the works. Pulled it out , made sure new filament was going in fine, reattached the hot end and I'm printing again. Thx for the Video.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, this is a well explained video
thanks dude, my printer at work jammed and your tutorial really helped! only i found out that you do not need to remove pcb part from the plastic shroud, less things to take apart and less things to remember how it goes together. cheers!
Had this printer lined up for purchase, this video changed my mind, back to searching again lol
Many thanks, this a great help to many of us
Many thanks for the video, I have only had my S1Pro since Thursday and managed to get a proper clog in it, this video was great, as it gave me the confidence to take everything apart, and now I have a working printer again :)
I'm getting one every couple of prints now. I think this is a real design problem with the pro :(
@@RobinBresnark Mine was down to a faulty fan port on the breakout board that the hotend fan was plugged into, the connectors are horrible and cheap. Now I have to run the printer without a part cooling fan :(
Followed your instructions and cleared a nasty blockage in the extruder where the filament had snapped and then got folded over. Thanks!
You saved my day, thanks a lot !
This actually helped. Putting the thing back together was a bit of a hassle though.
Thank you for the video it was a big help.
Thank you! Very helpful!
Thanks a lot for your video.
Helped me a lot!
Glad it helped!
Man you saved me! I had the worst jam ever a small piece only stuff in the middle of the PTFE Tube! I had to use the key wrench to push it up through!
i sure wish my hot glue removal was as easy as yours--mine was everywhere on the connectors sadly 😭
but nonetheless i got my jam taken care of with this video, thank you so much for taking the time to show the screws and every detail along the way. back up & printing!
Thanks for this, happened to me today. Same issue with a good in the dark filament by eryone.
I checked my roll, it looks even but I suspect it's the direct drive gears either crushing it or flattening it slightly that stops it going into the hot end throat.
Seems like a mini caused it.
Great video, really helped me, had it taken apart z fixed and reassembled in 20 min.
I did remove the stuck filament from the o opposite end that you did as I had enough room and didn't want it to be so violent
Passei por isso esses dias. A placa eletrônica e os cabos dos aquecedores não precisa soltar. Excelente que vc tenha feito esse vídeo pois não tinha achado nada e fui na coragem.
Question is .Is it Worth getting this printer. So much work. For a new B. Glad you did this video. Wish you Had a video putting this back.redo it faster way.thank you glad I found you. Thinking of getting this printer
Thanks for the video I had to undo the two screws to get the aluminum heat sink out when I changed my heat break
honestly thinking not getting an s1 after this i was really excited for the s1 too.
That is hilarious. I had to take my sprite extruder apart today and I didn’t know this video existed. I forgot to put that same exact screw back in. I took it back apart and put it in the fan shroud where it came from.
Thank you very much for you video, it was very helpful for me. Unmounting was no problem for me. Mounting back took me more time. From the beginning to the end, it took me about one and a half hour. It I had to do it again, it would be done much quicker. The screw you got let at the end might come from the cr-touch. I have two screws on it.
Unmounting was interesting, I learned something.
Hi. Thanks for a great and informative video, nice and simple explanation, but scary
Thanks for the video- I tried to just remove the hotend bit on the bottom as another video did, but I couldn't- somehow the gears mangled the top of the filament and it got well and truly jammed right before the PTFE tube. First time 3D printer and I have a jam on the 1st day! Anyway, following this I had to pull the filament out (in reverse- toward the gears) instead- really helped.
Thank you!!! You saved my life!!
I just cleared a jam on my Ender 3 S 1. The cause was improper filament change. Heating the hot end to remove old cold filament and pulling it out too soon, First verify the filament in the hot end is melted by pushing some out the nozzle, then pull it out.
So true. Always extract a bit before pulling out ensures in addition to the right temperature, that there is no expanded filament above the melting zone.
Yeah same thing happened to me. I remember thinking what the wordt thing that could happen before pulling it too early
First....like so many before me thank you. Your video was used to remove a lodged-in piece of filament on a 1 week old 3 S1. In my case, when I pulled the gear case open, the spring and lever popped out. That took a while to figure out. I too missed the same screw you did. My only request is a video putting the hole thing back together again. I know that is really time consuming, but would be most appreciated. I fully expect this to happen again to me and many other. Thanks again for a great video.
Thank you so much for this video! I had to disassemble my S1 due to a blocked PTFE tube. I'm trying to put it back together and cannot for the life of me figure out where the heck all the screws go. I have 3 really long ones. I know 1 goes in the same side as the board but where do the other 2 go? I was trying to see the lengths of the screws as you pulled them but I think I missed those particular ones. Again, thanks for the video! Gave me the courage to dig in and figure out the issue.
Great video!! 👏👏👏
I just dealt with this, but mine cleared up. I was using luminescent filament (PLA) and the roll definitely has some odd shaped sections and imperfections that you can see. I think this is what causes the issue. The luminescent is clearish, but I found parts where there’s a black bubble in it and the filament is deformed and oval looking. Poor quality control with the filament co. (Disclaimer: these are my 2 cents… you don’t have to take them, I may be wrong anyways) . I was looking to learn how to take this apart just in case it does it again, so thanks for the great vid.
Excellent video. I'm describing this print head as an "electronic onion". You have to peel back layers to get to the gears in the middle.
Thanks man. New to printing and my s1 Pro did the same after 4 prints. Hope this isnt a regular thing with this printer.
Hi Jim !!! Genius, you are one of the 3D channels that I follow the most, not only have I printed my Mini Jim, but I learn a lot from your videos and I really appreciate the good vibes you have. Just as I learned from one of your videos how to level and calibrate the Ender 3 V2, I added an Ender 3 S1 to this, which seems like a great machine to me, although I followed a Creality tutorial to level the bed and use the CR Touch, and it has been perfect, after the third impression I have had to level everything again and to tell the truth I can't get it to be as before, can you or do you have a video tutorial to do this in the correct way and be able to save the changes? Please I will thank you if you can explain it, the machine is very good. I await your response, big hug and keep it up. Come on Jim!!!
Great video! Thank you
Happened to me on the first TPU print. I bought this printer due to it having direct drive extruder for easy TPU printing... I hope Creality can come up with a fix for this soon. My extruder was a tangled mess upon opening it up. I wish I could post pics here.
I just installed a Sprite upgrade on my vintage Ender 3 and it jammed immediately upon trying to load the filament. Thanks to your fix (I did the quick version), I was able to get it out and it's printing as I type this.
Hi new follower here because of this video. Thanks BTW. One thing to add on the s1 (non pro) there is a small bowden tube hidden inside the hotend. This was the issue on mine and it was the exact same symptoms. Thankyou
I'd really love to see a full set up video for the sprite pro extruder upgrade kit for the ender 3 v2. All I can find are S1 videos etc
Thank you! Lifesaver. I had to deal with a clog for the first time in my life! I fixed it.
I would just want to prevent a clog next time..
I used old pla filament, maybe I should avoid that...
Thanks for the video. Worked for my creality ender 3 v3 se. One thing I will say to all, those 2 connectors you have to remove that have hot glue on them, I should have broke the glue free with a small flat head screw driver. My pins to the plastic male connector fell out. Not worried as the wire did not come free from the pins. I simply pushed them back in and applied the smallest amount of Krazy brand super glue to the rubber insulated side and back side of the plastic connector, careful not to let it leach into the pins. That one connector that came loose went to my bed level touch tool
Just had my first major jam on an S1 Pro and your walkthrough was a life saver. Thank you VERY much! It gave me the courage to take the extruder apart; I would have struggled otherwise and likely, needed therapy afterwards.
You really took the hard road. I have two of these. Had some clogs to deal with. Just heat it up. Remove the nozzle, then push a cleaning needled and your done. Try that next time. No need to take it apart Great videos.
Do you have any idea on why they jam?
@@LuisHansenNH wrong geometry internally, no internal polishing, wrong alloys being used in the heatbreak, etc. E3D are the leaders here for good reason - they figured all of the perfect parameters long ago, and Chinese companies struggle to replicate it. Looks like in this particular case, expanded filament managed to get too high in the assembly.
I tried that first. I even took it to 240 and the filament piece would not budge. Trust me, if I could have gotten away with that, I would have. lol :) Thanks for watching!
Not sure yet. But if it happens again I will dive deeper into it. Thanks for watching!
All very good ideas, and I think you are right. Somehow a piece that was expanded got back up into the bowden tube in the top. The it got stuck..
OMG! THANK YOU for the tip at 10:48!! After mistakenly loading PLA for a PETG print (d'oh!), a bit of filament broke off when I unloaded. After taking the Sprite off, I only needed to remove 3 screws to see the filament stuck in the throat. I pointed a heatgun at it, and used the hex wrench that fit the Set Screw to easily pop it out! I was back setting my Z offset in less than 30 minutes, thanks again for the tip!
The tip at 10:48 worked for me, too, and I didn't need to do the full disassembly in the video thanks to this. This teardown video was a life saver --thank you. Since then, Creality support replied to me and sent a link to a video from them that confirms how to do this: th-cam.com/video/kVpGjHot8GA/w-d-xo.html
@@GlennChenier , what's also nice, is that they show how to do it without using a heat gun. Although I don't recall if they tell you to turn off the heat before reinstalling the assembly. But, that's an easy lesson to learn! 😉
Great video and very useful for those of us in the same ... jam :-) Before I saw this video, the sprite process looked pretty daunting. But, step by step, clearly described ... it was not too bad. (One very minor editorial suggestion. "Reassemble it by doing the steps in reverse order" ... it would be helpful to have some bookmarks for the various steps to make it easier to walk backwards through the video. I know ... looking a gift horse in the mouth.)
In my case, it was a tiny pellet of filament (the heated blob) that got stuck after eject and broke off when I pulled hard to get the filament out. Since that area is not heated, no amount of pushing or pulling with various tools would get through
This is my first 3D printer and got one successful print before this happened to me. I was very hesitant to pull the whole thing apart after owning it for 45 minutes, but your video helped through it and I was able to start printing again. Interestingly, my gears and spring came off in the opposite side of the housing than yours. And yeah...the spring and gears went flying all over the garage.
Thanks for the walkthrough!
How did you put it back together?
@@shawnc292 paused the video where it showed the inside and tried to replicate the setup best I could. It worked afterwards so...think it was successful!
@@bkoepplinger gotcha My inside is like yours where the gears are on the oppisite side and I cant get the spring back in thanks :)
@@shawnc292 that was definitely the trickiest part. You have to really compress the spring and slide it in at an angle until the square nut sits flush on the housing of that makes sense
Mine came out on the opposite side too and it took me a while to figure out how to get it back together LOL