Ooze Blocker for Nozzle Heating

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Whenever I heated my hotend, an abundance of ABS-ooze flowed out, drips spilling onto the printer or bed somewhere.\nNow you can use a handy device to place your hotend on while it's heating up, greatly reducing oozing.\nThe blue section in these pictures is a rolled piece of silicone. I acquired it from an silicone baking form and cut out a thin stripe that I then rolled into its final shape. \nI updated my CustomStartup Gcode with the following code:\nG28 ; Home all Axes\nM190 S[first_layer_bed_temperature]\nG1 X175 Y196 Z10.5 F5000 ; Move to Silicone Cushion\nM109 S[first_layer_temperature] ; Wait until hotend reaches temperature\nG1 X175 Y195 Z20 F5000 ; Lift up\nG1 X155 Y155 Z20 F5000 ; Print on heatbed and go