Load Filament Into Your 3D Printer

In this video I show you how to load filament into the Creality Ender3 3D Printer.

Ender 3 3D Printer:

[duaneporterutube]

It took me 3 videos to find the common-sense solution to getting the filament to feed into the tube. Thank you! The problem is that the path to the tube (through the gears) is a straight line, while the filament having spent its life on a spool is naturally curved. When you just try to push the filament in, the curve lifts the end point HIGHER than the entrance hole for the tube, which is highly frustrating. The solution: bend the end of the filament down (the opposite direction of the natural curve) kink it a little if you must so it holds, giving you a straight length of filament to feed through. Don't worry about the filament section not being smooth, it's all going to melt anyway when it reaches the extruder.

[PieceCraftLove]

Thank you for showing how to raise the thingy on the z because I didn't know to do that before I loaded my filament. Grr, people spend more time making "fancy" videos but they don't explain every step and they skip important things! thanks!

[cvinzant]

Thank you so much for explaining this. I'm setting up a Geeetech printer and they don't mention squeezing that lever in the instructions at all. You saved my whole set-up.

[dleyba]

By far the best video on how to load the Ender 3. Answered so many questions just by showing what you were doing.

[jimbracknell]

getting it in the hole to start with is nigh impossible...why they couldn't go with a funnel design is beyond me.

[Sam-wxjf]

I got the ender 3 3d printer as my first 3d printer. Built it last night, but couldn't work the filament through it. Thanks for the help!

[generosonunezarias]

The bend trick did it for me! Thanks for your help!

[ChazMations]

Big Help thank you so much just finished building the ender 3 but didn’t know how to load the filament

[chipchorps]

The only video that helped me a beginner in 3d printing. Thumbs up and sub!

[karengardner]

I was having trouble because I didn't make it go thru the nozzle. I'll try it on my ender 7. I was struggling and thanks for the video!

[liliumbellsong]

God you are a life saver...I thought I rand the filament through the tube. Not put the tube somewhere else....Thank you!! Definitely earned a sub from me!

[exhile]

thanks for actually showing this, seems like others think it's not important (your intro tho...)

[EPICFOOL]

Thanks for also teaching me how to move the z axis

[dannys]

I can get mine into the hole on the other side, but it seems to get jammed up between the threaded connector and bowden tube itself. I can't seem to figure out why? Any suggestions?

[dugy]

What about the numbers you typed in? Do you have to reverse that?

[EmpireSlaveofMind]

I've just set mine up, gone to do my first print. No fillament feeding through. Hot end violently jerks to the left like it's trying to print somewhere else too. What do I do to fix this?

[edc]

Thank you for the video. You sound like a mix between kevin smith and Seth green lol

[AlbertoC]

dude, that intro! pleaseeee remove the tv signal noise, I almost die here at 12 midnight with loud speakers

[aaronpeterson]

3D printer industry and people of the industry need to do a better job in almost every thing dealing with 3D printing so that people who buy 3D printers do not have to go to you tube and find out how to make their 3D printers work like how to load filaments into their printers and etc etc

with that being said thank you for this video of how to load filament into your 3D printer

[EliIzatt-hkvb]

My filament is not going out of the nozzle please help