Why only just “captain” and not a “major”, a “colonel”, a “general” or perhaps an NCO? Or is it a “Captain America” influence?!?
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Tangent question, how serious is that meme? Obviously an exaggeration but do the hotends wear out fast or something?
More like you’ll be printing so much you’ll wear out the nozzle.
(I assume, few have gone through nozzles quickly)
Nozzle…nozzle… 
that’s not just another term for the hotend? The only “nozzle”-like thing I see for sale as a replacement part is the hotends.
Once upon a time one had to replace just the nozzle. Hotend usually means heatsink, thermistor, heater and nozzle, or a just a heatsink and heatbreak, heater core, and nozzle. Depending on what printer you’re talking about.
For bambu the hotend is the nozzle/heatbreak, heatsink. A complete hotend is the above plus the thermistor and the heater and fan.
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I’ve said this before and will repeat it, not all kids need to stay inside the house, a tent and a sleeping bag are good for them.
I imagine they would willingly give up a room for a printer.
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Well you guys have to remember or know I have one room where 3 walls are all Lego Star Wars and Star Wars figures.
The 4th wall is my wifes Lego Harry Potter.
When I say wall, I mean the whole wall. There are massive UCS Legos that won’t move unless I’m dying. And then they must be moved before I’m buried.
The other free space has my painting gear and a pile of shame I’m never getting to, my air compressor, air brush etc.
To keep a healthy house I do have to give up room for mty wifes hobbies. I need to sleep with my eyes closed.
I appreciate the creative ideas, but Malc, not moving my last child out…yet. lol
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Answer: I’ve created this meme as response to johnfcooley’s statement (see his post above), and the nozzle part was added to counterbalance the claim made in the first sentence. The intention was/is to generate laughter (or at least trigger a smile or two). On the other hand, you do know, Lou, that nozzles are considered consumables too and do suffer from wear and tear which leads to their replacement, don’t you? 
Free him
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I know they’re “consumables” that wear out. But I figured they’d last I dunno, a year with heavy use? If people are going to say it’s more like months… well I hope not.
I doubt I’ll be a heavy user anyway, but I guess I’m asking how much trouble we’d be in if we couldn’t get replacement parts?
Really the last thing you’ll need to worry about is wearing a nozzle out.
Buy extra PTFE tubes at some point, purchase extra cutters, and sit back and have some fun.
In the time I’ve had my P1P, now P1S, I’ve purchased just about every part that BL offers. Not because I’m afraid of the printer breaking, but because I don’t want downtime waiting for a part. The times that I’ve had things go south were my own doing.
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Keep speed in mind. If you get a full year out of a bambu nozzle, thats the equivalent to an ender 3 nozzle lasting 12 years. I can honestly say ive never changed a bambu nozzle due to failure. I change them periodically as preventative maintenance and to maintain the highest quality possible. Roughly every 1,000 hours. I change most other wearable parts at 3000 hours. Also, if needed, there are 3 high end alternatives to nozzles and an endless supply of knockoffs. If you go with revo nozzles, theyll be interchangable with other revo hotends too.
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Depends on the replacement parts. If anyone is concerned I’d say the hardest things to get might be the circuit boards or custom injection molded plastics. Other bits like bearings or motors might be easy to source from other places.
But hard to say.
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The carbon rod subsystem would probably be the most difficult part to source. If I were worried, which I’m not, I suppose I’d get an extra one of those. The store stocks it.
I’d be careful about stocking up on too many spare parts though. Eventually it will be obsolete. The pace of change is a lot faster now than perhaps ever before.
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The circuit boards are indeed a real concern as these impact directly on the functionality of the printer. For the custom injection molded parts, I’d say that there are plenty of bright and talented 3D modelers out there (some, and I’d venture a guess as being many, being BL printer owners) who could relatively easy provide stl files to print them (from ABS or carbon-based filaments). Circuitry remains the main challenge, though, given enough time and motivation, some dedicated tech guys might be able to take them apart, reverse engineer them, and come up with even better ones, capable to support software and firmware upgrades (a fully autonomous X1Plus solution comes to mind as a likely possibility) and improved mechanical parts, potentially making the printer an open source and capable of supporting further upgrades.
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A bigtreetech board, some cables and maybe stepper motors. Ive actually been thinking of trying to convert a p1p
…(follow up from my previous post)…
After reviewing several newspapers, the article posted in The Economist ( https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/05/bad-information-is-a-grave-threat-to-chinas-economy ) helped in reaching, after several days of thinking and rethinking, a decision, and consequently, I’ve ordered today a complete set of all available electronic boards for my X1C, and two advanced maintenance kits… so now I’m good and fully covered with all esential and good to have spares (what I’ve already stockpiled + this order). The only thing I haven’t bought from BL are the fans… I plan to replace the existing ones as soon as they begin to show any signs of “fatigue” with equivalent Noctua fans, which are easy to find and are way more reliable and quiet.
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I think I’m guilty of overstocking.
I don’t have a Carbon Rod replacement and I’ve been on the fence. I don’t believe I’ll sell the printer if I upgrade, thinking I’d gift it to my father-in-law or my daughter if she’s interested. The parts would go with it to increase it’s usefulness down the road once it hits its EOL.
One part I went through was Wifi antennas and the AP board. When I was screwing around with the Panda Touch I was too rough with both of those. It’s very easy to rip the SD card slot off the board if you’re not paying attention. I did it twice. Same with the wifi antenna. The connector is solid, the solder on that tiny wire isn’t the best.
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Funny thing. I haven’t considered the carbon rods and the Wi-Fi antenna. An oversight which will be remediated in the upcoming months. 
I haven’t verified but someone posted a photo of the wifi antenna and where it connects to the board. It looks very standard. They are available wherever they sell wifi-enabled microcontrollers in single and dual band configurations. Probably others too.
Something to watch for anyway - the connector used on those antennas isn’t rated for many connects/disconnects. It also depends on how carefully one connects and disconnects.
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100%
I broke the first one at the connector. Imagine a bull in a china shop. I would have kicked myself but I’m not that flexable.
The second was pulling the front cover off the frame and forgetting the antenna was there. Ripped the wire where it’s connected to the board. Attempted to solder but my hands don’t cooperate like they used to. Diabetic neuropathy.
Was messing with X-touch and pulled the front off (didn’t tear the antenna) and while moving the AP board out of the way I had forgotten to take out the SD card. It caught on the frame and ripped the slot right off the board.
Second time I was messing with Panda Touch and despite my supposed mediocre IQ I did the same thing again.
So I have extra wifi boards, and plan on having another AP board. No fault of BL, all my doing.
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