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Basically title, the top mount broke so I screwed the mount to a bench. Only seems to be happening with this filament though as I've been running this setup for at least 6 months.

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[–] sneakyninjapants 3 points 1 year ago

Like MehStrongBadMeh said. PLA especially gets brittle like this when it's drawn in too much water. Try sticking it in a filament dryer/dehydrator for 24 hours and see if that goes away.