Stop Cleaning Your Nozzle: The Real Reason Long 3D Prints Fail (Heat Creep Explained)
Your 3D printer runs flawlessly for 10–12 hours.Then suddenly… air printing. No extrusion. Panic mode on. You clean the nozzle.It works again.Four hours later — same failure. If this sounds familiar, here’s the hard truth: The real culprit is Heat Creep — one of the most misunderstood and destructive failure modes in FDM / FFF … Read more