I am about a week in on the A1 I purchased from MicroCenter.
My printer is on an 8-foot-long workbench I built 40 years ago. I did not cross brace it, and even with 4x4 legs and all 2x lumber, the printer shakes the bench. I have to attach the bench to the wall behind it. This is a new experience in bed-slinging.
I love the textured PEI bed. It is magic but needs to be kept clean. I have been using 91% alcohol and microfiber shop cloth. Perfect!
We as a community need a better way to generate and maintain filament profiles.
Multi-color prints are a bit of a miracle of this technology. My use case will be Lithophanes and HueForge printing.
This printer seems to be the first Goldilocks printer. Just-Right! (well, there is the filament selection problem)
Issues I have come across:
I got a new Army Green PLA filament spool from Inland, and I have had the material break twice between the printer and the AMS. It might have been the bench movement at high speed.
I had prints coming off of the bed. I did not clean it properly.!!
I want to build a stronger stand for the AMS Lite. I might like articulation to allow for spool changes.
So far, the BBL cloud system is very nice. I had some trouble due to the router I was using. I am still feeling my way around and discovering new features and functions.
RJF
PS Sitting next to my new A1 is a Roly Automation laser engraver. I would declare these the first two devices ready for normal users to enter this maker realm.
PPS. The BBL Wiki is GREAT; Please keep that up. Information buried in forums and email is lost to the community.
I’m having issues that support are helping me with, but assuming they get fixed, my only issue with the printer is the noise. Having two A1 Minis and an X1C, the A1 is the loudest of the 4.
If you bend the filament by hand, does it snap? You should be able to bend it all the way without it snapping. If it does, I would say the filament needs drying (even brand new filament can be wet from the factory).
Over the last few weeks, I have been fighting some print quality issues. I thought it was related to cooling or filament issues on overhangs it was rather odd! The filament was not attaching to the existing layers on the left side of the prints. The right side of the brim was not sticking to the bed. Very odd issues.
I ordered another .4 nozzle, just in case. Yesterday, I installed that new nozzle and the printing issues have gone away. Now part of the issue could be the black filament that was stuck to the existing nozzle:
I needed some small snow flakes for a project. I found some I liked on makerworld. I shrunk them in x and y to about 20x20 mm. I put my 0.2mm nozzle on the printer and printed these:
I am hoping that the PEI textured plate surface on the bottom of them will make them stamps for a project my wife the teacher is trying. The project took 45 minutes to print.
This printer is a tool to use, not a hobby/project in itself. The experience of using another printer had taught me a lot that i just need to forget.
I am mostly using Inland filaments as Micro Center is close to me. The Generic PLA setting is working very nicely for it as a default.
HueForge’s and Lithphanes are coming soon. I have to finish building my TD-1 device to measure the transmission distance of my filaments.
And now back to COVID recovery…. Be careful out there folks this sucks!
Ugh!!! Get better soon, weather sucks anyways so it’s a good time for recovery.
I asked Bambu to start providing a filament library with td. Not holding my breath! Would you bill willing to share your Bambu filament library? Thanks
Todd
