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3D Printing is Fun! (lemmy.world)
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Fourth try on a print. Tried to add some adhesive to the bed to get it to stick better. Watched the first two layers and went to bed. Woke up to a printer on strike.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You do on the P1S? I'm highly tempted to get one with the AMS, I have several printers that I've bought or built over the last 15 years, but even the ones I've bought need to be fucked with every time I go to print. The word I've gotten is that these are pretty much ignorable and ready to go even after a long hiatus. And an enclosed build chamber for potentially using ABS again is very interesting to me. I stopped fighting with ABS when PETG came out, but it has it's own set of shortcomings.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Do it. I was in your shoes about a year ago and finally pulled the trigger on the X1C and haven't regretted it once. My previous printer was like the ship of Thesius with upgrades and still failed all the time. I've got probably 700-800 hours on the X1C and have only had maybe half a dozen prints fail and only one repair needed which was covered under warranty. The only maintenance needed has been greasing the screws, which it kindly informs me to do when needed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's my exact setup and it's great. I wouldn't trade it for any other printer. It being enclosed is fantastic.

    It very much is a printer you don't need to pay attention to. Works as it should out of the box. Only thing you need to do is some maintenance. Cleaning, greasing some rods, etc... It doesn't tell you when to do it like the X1C (from what I've heard) but greasing rods is like an every 3 months thing. All their maintenance on what and when to do it is on the Bambu website.

    As it's my first printer I'm not aware of any issues after a long hiatus. All I can say is that I often don't print for a month or 2 and it prints just fine when I get back to it.

    I've only ever had issues with the AMS where it would snap the filament but that has only ever happened when my filament was almost empty and thus very light. I should've either weighed it down or welded the leftover on another roll. Plus that doesn't happen if you're running out mid print. Only ever happened when I initiated a new print with the almost-empty roll.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I have an A1 and a X1C. Got them because I was tired of my printer being the project and not the actual prints. I was inspired by the guy building life sized Trex models. He highly recommended them. I have about 600 hours on my A1 and about 150 on my X1C. Only time I have issues is when the model is poorly made/badly sliced(so basically user error).

    They are basically "set it and forget it". Setting them up is basically connecting 3-4 cables and 4 screws - incredibly easy.

    I could not recomment them enough. I print almost daily now while with my ender I spent more time trying to fix z offsets and other junk.

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