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That's an excellent chart. Thanks for sharing

If I had room in my shop I be on that faster than a fat kid on a smartie...

Sorry, I just looked and that is the closest motor so that would be the lead I used... still figuring which motor is which...

yes, I removed the tube from the hot end completely. I can move it freely. Also, I removed the stepper from the assembly and tried it apart with the same results. Thanks for confirming my thought process though. I wasn't sure if I was going about it the right way.

I plugged the stepper motor into the x-axis wire and activated the move axis for that motor and it didn't move there either. It "locked up" but wouldn't move, just buzzed. Would that not accomplish the same thing? The same wire when plugged into its motor operated perfectly.

Another question, I noticed an upgrade available for the ender 3 to relocate the extruder and make it a direct feed. Has anyone done this? It's not much more than just the stepper motor replacement and it eliminates the bowden tube??

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Yes, I can turn the stepper by had very easily as long as the power is off or the steppers are disabled. Thanks for the link, I will read through this and hopefully make sense of it.

I am hoping the fix is simple... Here's where I'm at. I had been ignoring my 3D printer for awhile (just didn't have any need to print anything). I went to print something yesterday and nothing was coming out of the extruder. I was thinking plugged nozzle so I proceeded to work at changing that...

Your humor in the first reply was not lost on me...I almost spit my coffee onto my laptop... Thanks for your input. Due to my lack of knowledge (I won't even pretend I know what you are talking about) I can follow your logic in regards to reliability and having a serviceable part ( I believe...