<p>The most likely problem is that you have a jammed nozzle. To fix this heat the hot end up to about 140°C then insert some PLA filament push it through and then pull it out forcefully. That should solve your problem.</p>

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2017-10-30T16:11:04.557Z
wait 240 degress or 140?
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@VosemMedia 140
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@VosemMedia First heat up to about 220 &deg;C, insert filament, let it cool a bit and pull it out, see [this answer](https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/a/6092/5740). Filament heating up to 140 &deg;C will not lead to melting the old filament to bond with the newly inserted!
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joebrad27 
<p>So after a <em>lot</em> of work I finally got my Anet A8 printing but then disaster struck. It has stopped working again but with a new problem. The first few strokes of printing are fine but then it goes really stringy and the lines are very very thin so the result is a very stringy mess with holes and gaps everywhere. I am also using PLA from RS and my G-code and some images are below:</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/RVkG6.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer" title="Stringy print"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/RVkG6.jpg" alt="Stringy print" title="Stringy print"></a></p>

<p>G-code: <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/p4odlic1372q78z/xyzCalibration_cube.gcode" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.mediafire.com/file/p4odlic1372q78z/xyzCalibration_cube.gcode</a></p>

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My Anet A8's filament isn't extruding properly
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# My Anet A8's filament isn't extruding properly

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-29)

So after a *lot* of work I finally got my Anet A8 printing but then disaster struck. It has stopped working again but with a new problem. The first few strokes of printing are fine but then it goes really stringy and the lines are very very thin so the result is a very stringy mess with holes and gaps everywhere. I am also using PLA from RS and my G-code and some images are below:

[![Stringy print](https://i.sstatic.net/RVkG6.jpg "Stringy print")](https://i.sstatic.net/RVkG6.jpg "Stringy print")

G-code: <https://www.mediafire.com/file/p4odlic1372q78z/xyzCalibration_cube.gcode>

**Tags:** filament, pla, ultimaker-cura, anet-a8


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-10-30. Score: 1

The most likely problem is that you have a jammed nozzle. To fix this heat the hot end up to about 140°C then insert some PLA filament push it through and then pull it out forcefully. That should solve your problem.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: wait 240 degress or 140?  
> **username_1**: @username_0 140  
> **username_2**: @username_0 First heat up to about 220 &deg;C, insert filament, let it cool a bit and pull it out, see [this answer](https://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/a/6092/5740). Filament heating up to 140 &deg;C will not lead to melting the old filament to bond with the newly inserted!  

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