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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Aren't these closed hardware? good luck finding replacements parts
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.
That's my exact setup and it's great. I wouldn't trade it for any other printer. It being enclosed is fantastic.
It very much is a printer you don't need to pay attention to. Works as it should out of the box. Only thing you need to do is some maintenance. Cleaning, greasing some rods, etc... It doesn't tell you when to do it like the X1C (from what I've heard) but greasing rods is like an every 3 months thing. All their maintenance on what and when to do it is on the Bambu website.
As it's my first printer I'm not aware of any issues after a long hiatus. All I can say is that I often don't print for a month or 2 and it prints just fine when I get back to it.
I've only ever had issues with the AMS where it would snap the filament but that has only ever happened when my filament was almost empty and thus very light. I should've either weighed it down or welded the leftover on another roll. Plus that doesn't happen if you're running out mid print. Only ever happened when I initiated a new print with the almost-empty roll.
Do it. I was in your shoes about a year ago and finally pulled the trigger on the X1C and haven't regretted it once. My previous printer was like the ship of Thesius with upgrades and still failed all the time. I've got probably 700-800 hours on the X1C and have only had maybe half a dozen prints fail and only one repair needed which was covered under warranty. The only maintenance needed has been greasing the screws, which it kindly informs me to do when needed.
Didn't get one with my x1c.
I got one with my X1C.
That's just not right. I'll return mine after a years worth of use and get a new one just because of that.
Me too.
I didn't get any spare parts with my A1 Mini.
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.
They have all the parts available on their site.
Until they decide not to sell these anymore
So pretty much like every other company in existence? I don't think there is any danger of BambuLabs disappearing anytime soon and their parts are dirt cheap.
Open hardware projects have the parts blueprints published
But you're still relying on companies to produce these parts for you and they'll only do it so long as the market is big enough to make it worth it for them.
Open source is definitely preferable, but at this point and time, their proprietary parts aren't an issue at all as they're cheap and readily available and with the popularity of these printers, I don't see it being an issue for quite a long time. By then, I may have moved onto a new printer anyway since the market is constantly progressing.
Time will teach you the lesson
The lesson that all consumer electronics have a limited shelf life? That's pretty well known.
There are already several aftermarket suppliers making parts for them, including a drop-in e3d hot end. Look, I generally prefer open source designs, but the hassle-free workflow with an X1C has been worth it.
Also, they sold a PILE of these things, I suspect aftermarket support will continue even if Bambu stops.
Remember about this comment in 10 years
Ten years... Someone apparently thinks they're funny. I'd like to see their ten year old 3d printer that is still essentially using stock or equivalent components and hasn't been essentially re-engineered from the ground up. Are you enjoying manually leveling that bed with thumbscrews and a scrap of paper? Still printing on tape, or maybe a piece of glass? This whole hobby is still moving relatively quickly and I wouldn't be surprised to wind up working with additional axes or other unpredictable innovations ten years from now. Certainly we'll have gone through multiple "ultimate" build surfaces by then.
Just because something it's 10 years old doesn't mean it's useless or broken, especially when it's open hardware and you can upgrade it or repair it. Your mentality seem to be shaped around closed hardware that you throw away once it's broken or a new model is released.
Nope, you're missing the point entirely. There's absolutely nothing stopping me from walking into the other room, tearing apart my X1C and rebuilding it with, let's say a klipper board, except that it works quite well at the moment... No printer bought right now is likely to be any different in that respect. You're trying to act like it's an i-phone, but it just isn't.
You don't need to replace anything to fix this, though.