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So a word of advice, especially for @kikelMcJew who is getting a P1S soon. Keep your hands OUT of the machine while it is working. There is a pause button, USE IT. It's awful tempting to reach in there real quick to remove that wayward strand or something. Don't do it.

That was a bit expensive to fix. But my real problem that kept me from printing was a bad wire going to the ceramic heater on the hotend, the print head. I am not sure why it wouldn't work, the wire looked fine except the insulation was messed up. I taped it real nice and put it back in service but it just would not work. Maybe @stupidbird can tell me why?

Back to making cool stuff! So a word of advice, especially for @kikelMcJew who is getting a P1S soon. Keep your hands OUT of the machine while it is working. There is a pause button, USE IT. It's awful tempting to reach in there real quick to remove that wayward strand or something. Don't do it. That was a bit expensive to fix. But my real problem that kept me from printing was a bad wire going to the ceramic heater on the hotend, the print head. I am not sure why it wouldn't work, the wire looked fine except the insulation was messed up. I taped it real nice and put it back in service but it just would not work. Maybe @stupidbird can tell me why?
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That makes sense. Kind of like a distracting injury. I'm looking at the obvious issue but not what caused that issue which is the real problem. I thought it was just physically damaged insulation, I didn't consider something else may have caused it. Thanks!

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When you say messed up insulation was it actually burned/melted?

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I did not think so when I inspected it. I thought that I had damaged it by not running it correctly. It looked like it was pinched and damaged the insulation. I took it apart, taped it up nice and rerouted it. I tried like 4 times but I could not get it to run. I got a new printhead and installed it and it's running like a champ.