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.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • Quack@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      You get a spare hotend with the purchase of a P1S so I assume they give you one with any of their printers.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • Quack@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          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.

        • ShepherdPieEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          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.