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Mine has a heated bed and is an open design (a MagerGear M2)

My early ABS experimenting I thought the tip was clogging, but really it was the extruder pushing hard enough that it would machine away the filament, and no longer grip and feed.

If the problem is peeling/curling off the bed, then yeah, that's a "draft" problem.. or at least the base cooling off too much.
To print ABS I have a desk lamp next to the printer, with an old incandescent bulb. The heat from the bulb is enough to help with ABS. That, combined with hairspray on the glass bed, I rarely get curling.

If the extruder is stripping(too hard to push) try turning up the nozzle (hot end) temperature.
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