#✅ - so, my Ender-3 decided to smoke

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blissful basin
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I was trying to unclog the nozzle on my end or three, because I was having trouble printing. And then all of a sudden it just started smoking. The hardened wasn’t on fire or anything, but there was smoke coming from the inside of the nozzle, what should I do? 

This is just a picture of the aftermath, because when I saw it smoking, I immediately turned it off 

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stiff lanternBOT
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mossy kraken
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What were you doing to it when it started to smoke

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And what was the color, smell, etc

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Cause you could have mistaken it to be water vapor in the filament

blissful basin
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I was pushing the Bowden tube through the hot end without the nozzle on to try and clear the inside, when I removed it, the hot end started smoking from the inside. The color was a kind of light grey and it smelled like a stovetop

mossy kraken
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  1. Don’t ever use your Bowden tube or anything plastic/flammable to clean out your hot end
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Use an old Alan key you don’t need anymore or the clogging needles

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  1. Let’s see the end of the Bowden tube
blissful basin
mossy kraken
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You probably toasted your Bowden tube a bit

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You should be fine

blissful basin
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Ok

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Also 1 more thing

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Whenever I try to use my Ender-3 it always clogs up really bad, what do you recommend to fix it?

neon leaf
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It’s probably either not cut flush or not into your hotend all the way

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How hot did you have your hot end?

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The Bowden tube shouldn’t be smoking unless you have it near the higher end of your temps or put it in too long

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