this happens to me 1 out of every 10 rolls or so for a while but now its so frequent i switched to polymaker for filament
A year on from the OP and Iāve been having issues with my standard gray PLA spool (not a refill) jamming part way through long prints. Iām about half way through the reel now and the problem appears that the filament is threaded under the next layer, so locks itself. Pulling the filament out and back through the jam, and then reinserting sorts it out, but it means that the print is stalled for a few hours overnight whilst unattended and there is that tell tale line.
Is there a way to prep to minimise this happening? So far it is only the gray Iāve had an issue with, but at less than 100 print and only two colours used (black and gray) I havenāt a super wide expeience yet.
Other than completely rewinding a spool yourself (i.e.: manually transferring the filament from the original spool to a new spool), I canāt think of anything that can be done to guarantee there wonāt be any tangles present. If you have a long unattended print planned and you canāt trust a spool of filament, then the hassles of rewinding may be worth it.
March 2025 and sadly this has been my experience also. Bought 5 refills of PLA and everyone of them has been terribly wound. Jam after jam and ruined prints. Very disappointed.
I am having the exact same problem you are. I opened a ticket for it.
This information sure is in the instructions, point 4 in the instruction
https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/general/swaping-new-filament-with-bambu-reusable-spool
I tend to rewind all refills, I do mot use bambu filament so I do not have to worry about the RF id. With a printed rewinder it only takes about 2 minutes to rewind it.
I tend to rewind all refills, I do mot use bambu filament so I do not have to worry about the RF id. With a printed rewinder it only takes about 2 minutes to rewind it.