I made my Ender 3 cry...oops (and help?)

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Earlier this year, I had a problem with the extruder clogging, which started during bed leveling and I wasn’t able to fix it, so I ordered some stuff to help clean it out.

Sadly, I didn’t pull the filament out and got sidetracked for a couple of months. And the filament is as brittle as a potato chip. When I tried to pull it out this morning, it broke off in my hand.

So, I did some research and ended up thinking I had to take some of the machine apart to get the tube off. I did get the tube off at the top, where the filament goes in, but couldn’t figure out how to get it off of the bottom.

“Oh, gee, I know! I’ll take it apart!”

Bad idea, lisaviolet, bad idea. So, now, the filament is still stuck in the tube and I don’t know where to go from here. I started to unscrew the part that goes into the thingamabob (where that fan is) that pushes the filament threw to the extruder, but got nervous halfway through and now I can’t get it screwed back in, I don’t know how to get the Bowden tube loose from that so I can get the filament out and I wish I were a drinking woman right now.

I know you guys can give me instructions on how to fix this.

The problem -
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What I had made the day before the problem started -
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