Add me to the warped bed club.
Only 2 weeks old.
Not going to open a ticket until the new supplies are sorted.
How the hell as this got by QC?
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Is there anything else to the stl/step file other than an elongated cube?
This seems like the best way to measure it.
Nope. It is literally just an elongated cube. 10mmx15mmx235mm is a reasonable size, though you can adjust as you want.
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hmmm ⌠
Actually, I wanted to get away from Prusa. They are extremely expensive and not very innovative. Theyâve been offering the same product in different âcoloursâ for what feels like 10 years. I wanted to buy an X1 Carbon. But this article put me off. This doesnât seem to be an isolated case or an isolated phenomenon, but rather a bad standard. Especially since the new spare parts are even worse than the old ones.
Is there a statement from Bambu Lab somewhere about this issue and how they want solve it?
Bambu is royally ignoring us and sweeping problems under the rug (aka make you go through lengthy support interactions until you give up). Look at the post about printing artifacts on the X axis. They only intervene when people become vulgar, otherwise zero intervention.
I wonder if all beds was warped what percentage of people would know or care ? Because a lot of YouTube influencers are just making masks and small multicoloured models so as long as the ABL is working correctly .
My X1C is a winner , never failed a print and zero ghosting so I guess itâs not too bad.
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Iâm not sure Bambu Lab is intentionally attempting to make people give up. Some 3D printer issues can take some time to troubleshoot. And that sometimes involves trial and error in order to identify the issue.
Iâve noticed this too and itâs quite bizarre. Even a âhey, we donât have a fix yet but are working on itâ would be better than dead silence.
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True but how come not a single person has reported having it solved in months now ? If it takes this long to solve it is a design issue not some sort of troubleshooting.
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I was speaking about resolving issues in general (as I thought you were too). For this specific issue though, it seems itâs not an issue thatâs easy to fix. Else (as you mentioned) weâd see people reporting here that their issue had been resolved.
Maybe someone should start a survey in order to collect some facts : how many people are concerned and what is the height of the warping (like an online survey with google forms or whatever).
And to speak about this survey in the various Bambu locations :
- this forum
- BambuLab reddit
- BambuLab facebook forums
And maybe with a few extra fields :
- support contacted YES/NO
- replacment bed considered YES/NO
- received replacement bed still warped YES/NO
- height of warping (< 0.2 mm, 0.2-0.4mm, more than 0.4mm)
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Iâm doing exactly the same until RMA turns up a flat print bed.
Did you notice any disadvantage from using aluminum tape in daily operations? Issues with heat transfer on the bed? Glue on the tape softening at higher bed temps? Inability to print filaments that require >100C on the printbed?
Also, what was your process? Did you measure the entire bedâs elevation across its surface or did you just eyeball it and placed layers until the straight edge showed an improvement? Any particular brand tape you used? Heat resistant?
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And weâd use that data to show Bambu Lab there is an issue or? I think they are already well aware of this issue. Theyâve probably received more support requests than mentioned here as many people only read forums and never join and participate.
Well, it seems that for now :
- no one has a clear idea about how many people are concerned (âseems like a common QC issueâ does not mean anything)
- as never been acknowledged in any way (as far as we can tell) by Bambu
- no official communication in the forum
- no blog post regarding that topic
- still the exact same answers from the support (âreplacement bed to be sentâ or âplease install the replacment bed you have received even if it is also warpedâ)
Knowing how many people are concerned would at least allow to give visibility to everyone and to have more visibility from a Bambu Lab point of view to take this into consideration.
However if youâre fine with this situation, sure, letâs keep everything in place as it is (but then no one should complain anymore in this thread).
Indeed. However, Iâd like to know the percentage of concerned Bambu Lab printer owners. For that, weâd need to survey all Bambu Lab printer owners. If we only do what youâre suggesting (survey a small subset of Bambu Lab printer owners), then weâd only have a subset of data (like we already have in this thread). And that said, that would be a lot of work to show people a problem exists (since thatâs already apparent).
I agree the complaining needs to stop. But, letâs not stop documenting instances of the issue here. I believe that was the original intention of this thread. Also, it would be nice if those who temporarily fixed the issue by taping the bed would document in detail what theyâve done so others can do the same.
Apart from having a nearly flat bed, I noticed no downsides. I usually print PLA or ABS. For ABS I always preheat the chamber for at least 45 min to prevent any thermal expansion while printing.
My process was quite simple: I checked for wide lower spots with a high-precision ruler and a light and started to level it with the aluminium tape over a big surface, always double checked with the sheet on it to not create any high areas. After It was close to nearly flat, I started to look for small lower spots and applied some tape to that spot. (you can also see low and high spots when the printer does bed-levelling, any bed shakes while bed levelling are either high or lower spots)
I used an aluminium tap which has high-temperature resistant glue.
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Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
Could you please share the make of tape you used?
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Sure, I used this:
tesaÂŽ Aluminium Tape - tesa
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Hereâs another possible (temporary) solution:
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This would require that we actually know the values of the bed mesh - but we donât.
Also, heattransfer would be miserable.
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