I recently came across a Bambu page on Taobao, and found that they offered 250g spools. I was skeptical that it was a company pretending to be Bambu, but when it arrived, nope. It’s actually from Bambu Lab! I heard they were moving onto cardboard spools, so this might be a new product.
UPDATE: After some checking, it actually goes INSIDE a spool so it basically acts like a cardboard refill
i think it is bull it seems unreal since they have the ams 2 and ams 1 that dont work with them
Cardboard spools are going to add new fun for drying filament. They hold water like crazy.
The center looks a little big for the Ams .
Can you post the link? I heard they were moving to making their filament in house.
Cardboard spools that they don’t recommend using in their AMS units with hub holes too big for the AMS Lite? I’d bet money on those being counterfeit.
I think you’ve been had, sorry. Even the filament that BL sells as 250g come on plastic spools. PET-CF and PHAT-CF. The only cardboard spools BL has are PPS and PPA spools and they are .75 kg.
I thought they sold PET-CF and PHAT-CF at 500grams.
I checked, its the official retailer. I’ve bought other products from touzhou (bambu labs chinese company) and they sell actual filament. I dont know why they would sell all the real stuff to sell fake 250g filament. (to be fair even if its fake 12 rolls of 250g for 20 bucks is still quite the deal)
Going by your picture holding one in your hand, those spool hub holes are WAY too big for the AMS Lite.
Also, no way they will move to cardboard spools as they have strictly stated not to use them in their AMS units.
Counterfeit Bambu Labs products are widespread. Taobao is known for selling low-quality third party materials re-badged as name-brands.
i bought the filament from the official retailer, in fact, i was recommended this filament when i was At the bambu store in shenzhen china. I don’t think they would advertise fake filament, but plus it also has RFID
(also the page comes with a spool, im gonna check that out later)
Can’t wait to design a container that holds 600 g silica gel and mounts inside that cardboard spool 
so yes these are actual bambu spools. its just that i had no idea how to use them lol
turns out not, it literally just came out like a month ago for china only
Well, interesting. I guess you could even swap different samples into the same empty plastic spool as you want to use different colors.I wonder if they will eventually make it over here.
I think you can see why I was suspicious. it seems like everything gets counterfeited.
Looks like an interesting idea for less commonly used colours. If they made a smaller AMS that directly supported the smaller spools then that would be even more interesting.
If Bambu releases it, I have designed a converter. I don’t wanna use empty spools rn so i made a converter to use it directly
https://makerworld.com/en/models/2810609-bambu-250g-spool-adapter#profileId-3128258
Interesting. I wonder if these will be appearing on the official store now.
