Will be amazing to have the option to buy Anti-vibration feet for our Bambulab A1/A1 mini as P1 series and X1 series have
Sure there are a lot of printable feet for out printers, but we need to purchase a full roll of expensive TPU filament to print it
Bambulab, take note!
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You get 0.5kg of TPU for the price of the feets.
I had the original anti vibration feet for the X1 and was very disappointed. Then I printed a model using squash balls. That was much better.
But meanwhile I use the original feet again.
Imho itâs much more important to have a concrete slab under the printer.
Yea, donât get excited about anti vibration feet. I have them on the X1C and after months of use Iâm realizing they really donât do a whole lot.
Would the anti vibration feet be more about having a quieter running machine , than actual vibration prevention ?
Sound is produced when an object vibrates, creating a pressure wave. This pressure wave causes particles in the surrounding medium (air, water, or solid) to have vibrational motion. As the particles vibrate, they move nearby particles, transmitting the sound further through the medium.
A little like dampening ?
In my case, the printer is half enclosured in an Ikea closet. This closet vibrates a lot thanks to the printer and causes a lot of noise.
Dont know if some feet will damp that noise a bit, but will try to buy some TPU and desing some kind of feet
In a closet im sure sound boards would be better ( Acoustic Studio Foam Tiles )
Do sound absorbing tiles work?
Acoustic panels are a great way to reduce unwanted noise in your home. By absorbing sound waves, they can significantly reduce the amount of noise that travel throughout the open spaces. By adding absorption to your walls and ceilings, the overall noise level within your home will be reduced
I bought the A1 supportive feet and it was a HUGE waste of money. Itâs not that theyâre hollow, but that the rubber formation of the feet are so flimsy and soft that tissue paper has more form and support. Two feet pads couldnât even support 470 grams (1 pound) of weight without squashing flat. There are 8 feet at the bottom of the A1. Four of them are thicker, tougher material and directly support the core of the printer. The other four are supposed to stabilize the vibrations and are along the outer sides of the printer. These âsupportiveâ pads are supposed to be for the outer sides. They are less effective than the cheap foam pads that the printer came with.
There is a fix. Buy a tube of silicone calk and fill these hollow, cheap, ineffective, stupid feet then let them dry before affixing the feet on the printer.
My advice is to buy some TPU and print out your own feet then use double sided tape to mount them.
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The A1 does not need any anti-vibration feet.
The only useful thing is to have the stiffener legs at the back if you mount your AMS on top of the printer 
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I have the feet on my X1C with my A1mini next to it, the little fella isnât bothered by the shenanigans that goes on with the X1C at times.
I placed my A1 on a thick rubber floor tile (50 x 50 x 4.5cm) to see if it would have a dampening effect.
It did dampen, however the printer appeared to move (âswingâ) more during printing which caused ringing on the test prints. I therefore removed the rubber tile again.
Would anti-vibration feet not just have a similar effect?
Use the original Bambu Lab model top AMS Lite mount brackets and print these strong buffers in TPU, its a huge improvement.
I saw another similar thread on this forum a few weeks ago and one of the posts lined up with my experience. I installed the feet on my X1C and found it wobbled all over the place, ok in general but not good for larger prints. The other poster explained that they are more to limit vibrations interfering with other things in your workspace, not really to deaden any in the printer itself. This is what I concluded also, as pointed out above a concrete slab or dense rubber base would be more beneficial, I took mine off.
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Why not think outside the box and look for things that are currently made for other purposes like these gel inserts for shoes? Maybe something already exists and at a great price/ Just an example.
People seem to misinterpret the purpose of anti-vibration feet. Anti-vibration feet arenât to reduce vibrations within the printer; they wonât affect your print quality positively. Nor are they to dampen sound. They are to enable the printer itself to vibrate/wobble rather than the surface the printer rests on.
Without anti-vibration feet, the vibration forces the printer makes are distributed to the surface the printer rests on; for example, if you have your printer on a desk, the vibrations will be transferred to the desk and cause the desk to shake. Anti-vibration feet somewhat isolate the printer from the surface below, allowing the vibrations to be absorbed by the feet itself, limiting the amount of vibration forces put on the surface the printer rests on. Think of the anti-vibration feet as another table the printer rests on, and THAT table absorbs the vibrations instead of the main table.
These are most useful for if your printer is on a desk or in a print farm; particularly, when you have multiple printers on one surface. This is because each printerâs Vibration Compensation only compensates for its own vibrations, not the unpredictable vibrations of any other printers that rest on the same surface. So, by using anti vibration feet and âisolatingâ the vibrations of a certain machine (thereby reducing vibrations transferred to the main surface the printer rests on), any other printers on that same surface will be significantly less affected by external vibrations.
However, while anti vibration feet work well for CoreXY printers like the P1 and X1 printers, they donât work well for bedslingers like the A1, especially top-heavy bedslingers. This is because of how each of these types of printers distribute mass and handle movement.
In a CoreXY machine, the center of gravity doesnât alternate very much and most of the vibrations are caused by the fast movement of the light toolhead. On a bedslinger, due to the rapid movements of the bed, the center of gravity alternates frequently and vibrations are caused by both the movement of the toolhead and the heavy bed, which can be amplified when there are models on the bed. This can create a large amount of imbalance, especially when considering having anti-vibration feet on the bedslinger, which are designed to allow the printer itself to wobble and shake rather than the surface below it. When additionally considering the presence of top-mounted AMS units, it can become quickly apparent how anti-vibration feet on the A1 could cause more issues than it would solve, as it would amplify vibrations in the printer.
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