#Reverse bowden easy to push hard to pull

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soft rover
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I’ve got an issue with my filament being really hard to pull at the extruder end but oddly it’s freely moving if I push it from the spool end?!

It runs from a dry box above my printer down through a BTT SFSv2.0 filament sensor and then into the electronics bay and up through the wire loom hole.

I use PTFE with 4mm OD and 2.5mm ID but I’ve tried larger and smaller IDs with no change.

Has anyone else experienced this?!

zealous hamlet
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Show us the path the filament takes to the extruder

soft rover
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I’ll grab a picture when I get home

soft rover
zealous hamlet
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that is a very sub optimal route. You want it as short as possible and without many bends. You have 3 different bends in it and what looks like way more length than you need

soft rover
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It’s as close as I could get to the recommended route and isn’t much longer though does have an extra bend at the end 🤔 the only other option I can think of would be to route it out the top panel which I don’t use anyway but I wanted to avoid holes in the top as I figured heat would escape. Maybe if I tap a hole for a bowden joint connector it would be ok. Is there a better path I’m missing to a spool above the printer?