I started with TAZ 5 back in 2015. Back then it was an amazing printer. I remember loading beta Marlin firmware onto the 8-bit board in order to try out this new ‘linear advance’ tech. So much tweaking and messing around - and I loved that.
When I got the x1c, I figured I’d need to do the same. I was kinda bummed that the printer didn’t need my engineering skills - for the most part. But, now I actually make stuff!
Do I run into issues? Sure. Giant ASA prints bend the bed plate when they warp, so I printed mini clips to hold the thin spring steel down. Fixed. Damn.
Is the AMS slow and imperfect? Yeah. Changed some gcode for filament swap - halved the time and the waste. Cool.
Mostly though my ‘tweaks’ are usually limited to running the calibrations on a new filament in Orcaslicer, then feeling like so really ‘did something.’
I sometimes wish there was more to fix. I wish my printer needed me more! but then I look at all the successful things I print for my project work and am glad my baby is all growed up.
I’ve had listings typed out and ready to post multiple times now for my p1s. I bought it back when the wife and I were making pretty decent sales numbers on Etsy because I kept hearing it just works and is reliable, plus it was the fastest easiest way to get Multi color prints. I have build numerous Vorons as well as custom designed / built other fast printers. The bam u was the least reliable out of any of them, even my klipperized kp3s! My main issue was with the network connection. I finally got that issue resolved by literally buying a second router and putting it right next to the p1s. While I still struggle with VFA’s and the motion system outrunning the hotend, it’s been reliable other than that so far. It has a few thousand hours on it now and I think I may need to replace the extruder.
anyways alll that is to say, I’ve felt your pain. But maybe don’t destroy the thing l, it’d be a waste. Sell it to fund your Voron build, or if you want DM me, I’d be happy to help you troubleshoot.
Are you printing with the door open or closed? What type of filament are you having jam?
@CRracer712 The ones I have been using for the last 11 months have been taken down on MakerWorld. Probably ripped.
However, these here look rather similar.
By the pic, they seem to allow visibility of indicator light and simple slide on installation. No idea if these specific ones work as well as the taken down ones I have installed though.
I am using mine without a filament guide. But with Bambu rolls nowadays being much more prone to tangling than just 6 months ago (especially refills), I’ll definitely install some soon. Just got get my large, long print backlog out of the way first.
So probably Christmas
Not saying which year
Did you, perhaps, attempt to put a fillament into the ams that on the shopping site states in a bullet “not compatible with ams” “ams not reccomended” or “compatible with ams lite only” ?
Not sure if your issue is similar but I’ve had a number of models I put in collections to keep handy disappear. MW isn’t very helpful because once they disappear, you don’t even know what is missing. Case in point were the little funnel savers I printed for my AMS when I first got the system. I got another AMS and wanted to get the model but it was gone from the collection where I put printer things. It wasn’t gone from here though. Just updated by the creator.
It seems if a model gets updated that disconnect can happen. MW considers the old version gone.
If you search you can frequently find the new versions.
Hey if you want to destroy it could you maybe consider giving it to someone else. I have been wanting a X1 forever and I could deal with the problems with the ams and other things.
Your not the only one unhappy with Bambu! The printers are usually great but lemons are out there. I know I had one fortunately I was able to return to Micro Center. I hesitantly upgraded from a P1S to X1C the P1S was the lemon completely failed in a week. The X1C only has one minor issue with the AMS that support has been running me around about. It’s actually cheaper for me to just Buy the Warrantied part and get working again. It’s almost like support treats customers like insurance companies do they do everything they can to make you give up. I understand how you feel I would probably blow up my X1C also and Post it on YouTube for Bambu And everyone to see. So Bambu knows how upset they are making customers. Giving it away won’t accomplish anything. Actions are louder than words. Send it into orbit!!! I might drop mine out of a plane or from a Drone one day with a GoPro attached to it. Bambu won’t change until their $$$ slows down enough to make the CEO cry
I mean, if you are dead set on destroying it amd not donating it, ive got some ideas.
Drop it ceremoniously into a volcano while intoning chants to appease the printing gods. Wrap it in tannerite and see what happens.
Roll it down the steepest, rockiest hill you can find.
Reenact the printer scene from office space.
Engineer here, definitely a few things I would change if I were to design and build my own printer and ams, but the printer and ams are extremely well designed for the price.
The ams purges excess material due to tolerances. To get black plastic you add a set amount of pigmentation, but there’s a tolerance on that for each filament. They overcompensate on the purge to ensure that if you have a really low end of the tolerance on one filament, but really high in the next, you don’t get color bleed. Now you can minimize that, but your results will vary batch to batch in filament.
The hotend issue you reference I really would need more info to help you figure out. I’m currently running about 6 bambu printers between home and work, as well as a few vorons, prusas, and enders. The bambu has been rock solid on hotends with the exception of when I didn’t follow the directions of keeping the door open when printing carbon fiber filaments due to their tendency to clog the nozzle when in a heated chamber.
If you can’t get a bambu printer to work tho, I don’t like your odds of getting a voron to work. But don’t destroy it, donate it to a local school, let some kids learn how to use it and get interested in 3d printing rather than destroying a perfectly good piece of equipment.
Wait, I just read your post from May that said you did a credit card charge back on this printer. If that’s true I’m sure Bambu is just fine with you being done with them.
I bought an X1 about 2 weeks ago from Microcenter. When I was at the counter checking out I saw an open X1 that it turned out was being returned. As I was checking out the guy at the counter tells me keep the box in case you need to return it. Turns out since I bought the printer that I haven’t been able to print one thing start to finish without the printer fing up. It’s going back tomorrow.
