Fourth try on a print. Tried to add some adhesive to the bed to get it to stick better. Watched the first two layers and went to bed. Woke up to a printer on strike.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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As a seethingly jealous ender 3 peasant who is still spending most of his time keeping my printer working with kludges and duct tape; it's nice to know Bambu owners are human after all and still run into problems.
Hope you get it sorted and are back printing soon! 🖖
Manged to get an ender 3V2 a few years ago, auto bed levelling is a must have feature if you intend to spend more time using your printer than calibrating or fixing it. After that masking tape fixes all adhesion problems.
After that masking tape fixes all adhesion problems.
Well except the one where the print is TOO stuck to the masking tape. I guess that's less of an issue if you have a magnetic build plate though. I'm still printing on a old flashforge clone. and removing things can sometimes be a pain in the butt.
I eventually turned off auto bed leveling because it just doesn’t help much. You still have to manually level the bed, and the correction it adds is kinda negligible. At least the BL Touch does help with the manual leveling process.
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I had this happen. Pop the whole hotend in the oven on the warm/hold setting for a bit and it should come off fairly easily.
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Aren't these closed hardware? good luck finding replacements parts
You don't need to replace anything to fix this, though.
looks at all the replacement parts that came with both my Bambu printers and the extra nozzles I ordered at the same time
What are you even talking about?
Did they include a new hotend or can you get one? I look on their site and see nothing for that.
Edit: I looked under Spare Parts and they weren't there, but I see them under Accessories. And for $13, I'd sure as hell buy one when I got the printer. Along with a bunch of other parts, they're quite reasonably priced.
You get a spare hotend with the purchase of a P1S so I assume they give you one with any of their printers.
You do on the P1S? I'm highly tempted to get one with the AMS, I have several printers that I've bought or built over the last 15 years, but even the ones I've bought need to be fucked with every time I go to print. The word I've gotten is that these are pretty much ignorable and ready to go even after a long hiatus. And an enclosed build chamber for potentially using ABS again is very interesting to me. I stopped fighting with ABS when PETG came out, but it has it's own set of shortcomings.
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They have all the parts available on their site.
It might not be cheap (or maybe it is, I dunno) but replacement parts are available. https://eu.store.bambulab.com/en-se/collections/spare-parts-for-a1-series
There is also a chance that they can rescue it without replacing anything, but it will very likely be quite time consuming and they will have to be careful to not damage anything.
This also doesn't look too bad.
These nozzles are cheap. And it shouldn't be very difficult fix this one if you have a heat gun. The hard part will be to get at the latch that holds the the nozzle assembly in the extruder. That's small, fiddly, and delicate part that there is a good chance of breaking.
So while you are ordering that spare heater assembly, ($20US) you might as well get a new nozzle too, ($10US).
You don't need any new parts to fix this, though, except maybe a new sock. You just heat up your hotend for a while and it'll pull off. If it's too thick, stick the hotend in the oven for a bit.
I just had this happen on my X1C for the same reason and was able to get it off after heating up the hotend for a minute and wiggling it loose. Zero residual damage.
If you use OctoPrint you can get plugins that use a camera to watch for failed prints like stinging etc and it will stop the print if it fails.
I forget the name of the plugins right now. I went to say “Dr” something.
It used to be Spaghetti Detective, but they wanted to be trendy so it's "Obico" I think now lol
Thanks for adding the extra detail.
I have since noticed OP has only been printing two weeks so perhaps they don’t want to go down this route just yet, but it is another fun project and they will need to print some things to hold the web cam etc so could be something to focus on.
Yeah, it's not bad! If it's got a good clean view it can tell you when things start to look a little sus before disaster strikes haha.
It's even self-hostable, and a modest dedicated graphics card can be used to run the LLM completely locally. I haven't been able to get that running on my server yet though. (Nvidia drivers. Agh)
Otherwise they're pretty "freemium", which is understandable.
I've been out of the game lately though. :)
Yup, that’s how I’m using it;)
Thanks for this.
I have been out of the game for a bit too. Saving for a Bambu Labs printer as I spend more time levelling my Ender than printing 😂
O was also thinking about that, but since Bambu is so closed, I’ve started looking into other options and Qidi looks nice too
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This was what most annoyed me on my Ender 3. Now with a bambu A1 its fire-and-forget. And no failed prints yet, with daily use.
That’s great to hear! I see a lot of positivity for the Bambu printers.
Yes. These are great machines. Please know, though, that p.e. the camera does inexplicably not work in LAN only mode (i.e. when not connected to the bambu cloud service), and that the AMS lite cannot fit every filament spool in the world due to its construction. First can be remedied with a separate webcam in your LAN, second with printed adaptors, alternative spools or just some squishy material (if the spool's too big). I found that spools from dasfilament and recent ones from sunlu fit ok.
that looks like delicious taffy. like an abba zaba
Hey, ummm... I think I see the problem. Your printer has diarrhea
I've been doing 3D printing regularly for a decade or so now... Never had a blob.
I've been printing for two weeks, and I had one.
Apparently the A1 mini is supposed to have a mode to detect this a You just have to enable it.
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Atleast it didnt get wedged in the heat sink... Thats what happeneed to my last blob, had to replace the entire hot end.
I've had 3 blobs over the years, all caused by an otherwise benign issue turned into that because filament got caught in a silicon sock.
I mean putting a lot of sticky stuff in a sock will usually do that.
I don't think it's supposed to do that
Nozzle not seated properly?
I just had this happen too and it was caused by a bad z-offset reading. The nozzle hooked one of the parts on the bed that came loose and drug it around while forming the blob.
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or no nozzle?