/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2511265
>decide to try running the old bowden tube through the pnuematic connector and widening it with a soldering iron on the other side to keep it from pulling back through
>figure I'll get at least a few prints out of it before it melts in my hotend while I wait on new connectors to arrive
>as I go to push the old, warped, charred, melted bowden tube that came stock with my printer through the connector, it catches in exactly the same place it used to always sit
>it's... it's home
>bowden tube doesn't wiggle loose
>printer is humming along without a care in the world despite nothing holding the bowden tube in the hotend other than the sluttiness of the stock bowden tube for the stock hotend