For…pleasureable printing…?
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For ‘her’… Well you get the gist
One of the biggest improvements I see is the “roll cage” design of the hotend that is supposed to protect the nozzle from bending. When printing fast with stiffer and more robust filaments, this can be a real concern. I’ve had 3 or 4 nozzle get bent completely on their own.
While it doesn’t seem to affect print quality near as much as I thought it would, it can definitely be a factor with printing larger models or full plates because it changes placement on the bed.
If you use automatic flow calibration, it can affect that as well, because the filament isn’t placed where the printer thinks it is and will throw off the scans.
For a print farm, this could be an even bigger problem as catching a slightly bent nozzle on 1 of 10 or more machines might slip by unnoticed.
I don’t see a true advantage in the swappable nozzles and without the nozzle torque wrench at an additional cost of $30 you are gambling with nozzle leakage and more.
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I definitely notice a couple of AMS in the background… and at least two A1 series inbetween…
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I’m a noobie but it’s nice to hear of someone manipulating their printer with less than perfect hands. Mine have little strength and extreme loss of dexterity, but I’m patient, and that usually pays off. I’ve yet to swap my complete hot-end for another.
I’m new to the Bambu and Filament printing as well. My Resin printer died last week and I have an X1C coming tomorrow. That said, I have a friend who is pretty knowledgeable in the industry who sent me the link on the Mako and suggested it, so I have one on pre-order. The reasoning was, if you crash the nozzle with the standard ones I guess you can bend some stainless parts, while the Mako is built much tougher. That and the fact that I intend to put in diamondback nozzles and it becomes a simple unscrew and screw-in with the new threads used. Anyway, I’ve got a lot to figure out, and I’m sure many will argue one way or the other as to why Mako, or Diamondback or really any product is worth it or not, but that’s just what I’ve been told by someone who communicates a lot with companies in the industry. I wasn’t looking to save a buck when I got this printer, or I’d have gone with the P1S, so I figure I’ll just go all out on it and hope for the best. Looking forward to tomorrow’s unboxing, that’s for sure.
Should have gotten the Revo then.
Just purchase another heater combo for it.
Amusingly I just switched to another hotend.
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Pretty useless to enter since I only have a single printer. I hate changing out the hotend on my X1C just because of those tiny wires. I have to replace a fan because of the connector breaking. To screw out a nozzle to swap it out seems to be going backwards.
I spent some time shopping today and stopped by their website to take a look at this thing. Watched their vids, saw their claims. I’m not really all that impressed with this.
Really this has been spammed all over AliExpress with many different names. Seriously, what is the difference? The “new standard” nozzle end sock thing. What exactly does this bring to the table for that kind of money?
That whole torque wrench thing is exctly what I was doing with the Neptune 3 Pro. Seriously, I bought one to use with the Slice nozzle I had. I’m a sucker for shiney things.
Still have it.
I still say changing nozzles isn’t that hard, and I fail to see why it is always a headline thing. You will have to unscrew something. I get the connectors though for those that have issues with manipulation of those plugs or screws.
I may have missed it so if someone could point it out, 60% increase in flow over what?
So if anyone from Slice comes by, exactly what really warrants the price. What drives the convience? How does it really print? I will bet it’s no better than any of the 3rd party cheap afteremarket hotends on AliExpress, Temu.
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There’s a thread somewhere on here about how horrible slice engineering is.
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Yeah, they’ve done some sketchy stuff.
I did like the hardened nozzle at one time. Just not a fan of the overpriced and questionable ethics of the company now.
I don’t mind paying a premium if the value is there. A lot of things have been pushing that feeling to the edge lately. Most of what they sell is a bit too much, beyond reason. Given they build most of their line off pre-existing open source work makes it a bit hard to swallow.
In the end though, it’s the consumers choice. If it sells they’ll continue the price point. Value really seems to mean little anymore.
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I love Slice Engineering’s products - I used Mosquitoes and Magnums on all my printers before I got my Bambu Lab machines… I still have 3 new Mosquitoes and 2 new Magnums that I bought on sale a few years ago - BUT I just can’t bring myself to buy Mako at 3-4 times the cost of a stock Bambu Lab hotends AND then wait several months to have it in hand.
It seems like pre-order/ crowd funding is the latest business craze, even for large corporations. Maybe it’s my impatience but unless it’s a startup company with an innovative product or a bespoke item I’m not willing to prepay. I’ll find one in stock and ready to ship eventually
By the way, stay away from the E3D Obxidian hotends… they’re junk. I never had a problem with my P1P hotends, even the cheap clones, but the E3D clogged on the 3rd print and completely ruined the hot end
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user error probably (25 char)
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What if Bambu Lab partnered with E3D?
Hmmm.
I’ve run stock, Revo (many flavors), and E3D Obxidian and Diamondback nozzles on the P1P. None have ever been responsible in and of themselves for clogs. It’s almost (but not always) a setting or something the user did to cause the clog. I’m interested in how the nozzle was ruined. Seriously will you elaborate?
Bambu considers the E3D hotends “officially approved”.
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… but not officially endorsed or added to specific print settings…(at least from what I’ve seen up until today)
Will this new collaboration see them added to new x and p series printers by default ,?
Well, right or wrong, E3D claims no changes needed. I guess that’s why no profiles.
I haven’t found need. Thought I had but really didn’t.
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same here . i bought enough spares from BL to keep me going for quite some time, though i might consider buying one later. not sure yet