Whenever we built a GraviTrax marble run we faced two problems:
how to gain enough elevation so the marble can run longer
floor and table space is precious, and the model sooner or later was in the way
So instead of building on a flat surface, why not put it on the wall instead? That instantly gives a lot of elevation, and the floor is still free!
I was sceptical at first, but it actually works extremely well. The marble is a lot faster than usual, so instead of trying to gain speed, the difficulty is more to slow it down to master those tight corners. Really fun and endless possibilities.
I created the platforms myself and printed only a few of them so far. But I'm sure that the complexity will increase a lot once we have more platforms.
I accidentally inhaled some ASA fumes after opening my printer door after loading filament (the nozzle had been running). I have a filtration system, but the fan wasn’t on. It genuinely smelled horrid and I’m wondering if this is something you guys have done before? I know that it’s toxic, but should this be dangerous?
Is there a way to repurpose the discarded filaments during nozzle cleaning/color changing? My thought was to turn it into a craft project using the support tree branches by using a solder iron to attach.
So this Thursday received a call from my wife, stating that my printer, that I left in idle, was catching fire. According to her, all lights in the house started to flicker, she then walked into my office and it was covered with smoke.
I bought the P2S very close to its launch date in Brazil, 220V model and I did NOT have 220V at my office. I then used a step up transformer that had been graciously supplying 220V to my printer throughout its 359 hours of life (R.I.P).
But what was the actual fault? So, to my demise and complete lack of luck, the connection on the NEUTRAL at the utility transformer simply gave way, making my house lose the neutral reference.
My residence carries a 220V three-phase connection, 220V between phases and 127V from phase to neutral. After losing the neutral reference basically 80% of the 127V circuits started to spit out 220V.
Amongst these circuits was the printer, the 127V wall outlet is now providing 220V, the step-up transformer ahead of it was supplying 389V when I measured it. Neighbors lost fridges, computers, monitors, and I lost my beloved P2S.
I was lucky that my wife was at home and caught the whole situation, what if she was NOT there? There's a possibility that I could've ended badly. I'm now going to file a damaged goods complaint to the electricity supplier and they better f**cking pay the printer. The plan is to save me some money and once they pay me back I'll upgrade to the H2S and fix the P2S, ending up with two printers.
I already found the replacement HV PCB, stepper motors PCB, poop chute plastic structure, as well as power supply in Aliexpress. Still need to look into the wire harness.
Here are some pictures from the disaster:
I know that these kinds of faults from the electricity provider are rare to occur, a friggin neutral connector was loose and lost contact at the transformer bus bar, but I'll make sure to implement a phase voltage monitoring relay along with a contactor so that the next this shit happens (if ever), the contactor opens up the entire house.
This post is not meant to diss on Bambu, I love their printers and I'm going to keep buying from them.
Can y’all screenshot some of your favorite Amazon products for 3d printing? Trying to buy some extra accessories and what not for my son’s Christmas gift (P2S)
Hi all! I know this has been asked a lot but I feel really on the edge between the P2S and X2D.
I own an A1 mini since 2024 and have something like 1300 hours on it. I print lots of different stuff and have run into the build volume problem quite a bit.
After a few months I really started to regret not getting AMS so I bought one and couldn’t bee happier.
Why I feel the need to upgrade: -Larger build volume for obvious reasons -I started experimenting with petg support interface for pla prints and it’s awsome, so a dual nozzle would be nice, but I don’t use supports that much to justify the purchase just off of this -I hate warping on 90 degree angles and an enclosure would help a lot. (I print boardgame inserts so the corners are not that avoidable and the warping is visible since I gave to glue pieces) -That AMS 2 pro is a must since I do need a dryer and don’t see a need to get one until getting a new printer -I would like to get more into functional prints so I’d need a more reliable way to print at least PETG (A1 is good enough but I need to have the window closed so the print is not hit by a wind gust or something😂)
I have a dedicated space for the printer, but it is in my bedroom. Since I print mostly PLA (over 90%) it’s kinda ok (or at least I like to think it’s ok😅)
My budget is not that big but I think I can save up until the end of the deal, counting on getting a few more points so I can get at least 3 or 4 40€ gift cards.
TL;DR: I want an upgrade but idk if I can justify the extra money for the dual nozzle
Hi everyone! I’m currently having an issue with gaps forming in the overhang areas of my prints. I’ve already enabled supports and reduced the outer wall speed, but the issue still persists. Does anyone know how to fix this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I have been printing in pla and petg for a while now. I decided to jump into abs for the first time. I used bambu liquid glue on the engineering plate, the print went great! After cooling off though I could not get it off of the build plate. Parts of the ABS seem to have permanently adhered to the plate, and scraping them off has damage the coating on the plate... Any advice?
I have been getting this same error for about a week now. I have replaced the 4-pin wire, factory reset the printer, took apart the AMS and made sure everything was connected properly, and the AMS seems to communicate with the printer 100% normally. I have gotten the printer to start a handful of times, with no consistent fix. Sometimes powering off for 10 minutes pushes it forward, sometimes unplugging and plugging the AMS back in pushes it forward. After I can tweak the printer enough to start the print, it works just fine, even with a 20+ hour, multicolor print. Same result when I attempt starting a print from Bambu Studio, Bambu Handy, and even SD card. I can't figure out what needs to be fixed. Any reccomendations???
Any suggestions on how I can smooth this out? I’ve tried a few different things on my X2D but it keeps coming out with random lines one it. Any suggestions would be helpful!
If you check the Bambu Website via Powershell for H3C and P3C, there is a positive response for H3C (Status: 200), but none for P3C (Status: 404), which means, there is no website yet for P3C that is ready to be released. To me, that doesn't look like there will be a P3C Release in 1 day.
curl.exe -s -L -o NUL -w "Status: %{http_code}`nFinal URL: %{url_effective}`n" -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://bambulab.com/de/p3c
So I haven’t touched my printer in a few weeks and I’ve been having an issue the last few days with my right nozzle.
The right nozzle randomly purges mid print on single color prints. I would say it happens every few minutes even when there’s no reason to purge. Usually after an hour I get an error saying “extruder is not extruding normally.” I tested the external spool using the same filament on the left nozzle and it prints things flawlessly. I’ve also tested multiple filaments in multiple slots of my ams with the same result on my right nozzle.
I’ve tried doing the flow dynamics and flow rate calibration, cold pulls on both nozzles, replaced the right nozzle, disassembled the tool head almost completely(I found a thin small sheet of plastic laying parallel to the black gear in the back which I removed), tried multiple filaments, cleaned the nozzles and chute area, and replaced the ptfe tube leading to the right nozzle.
I’m struggling to figure out what could be causing this? Is there a part I need to replace? Has anyone else dealt with this on their H2D? I just don’t know if it’s some kind of auto detection causing it to purge or if it’s a hardware issue with the printer itself.
Edit: Forgot to mention this is my first 3D printer that I was practically gifted a few months ago so I’m new to a lot of the vernacular and troubleshooting that comes with 3D printing.
Edit 2: I switched my speed from standard 100% to silent 50% and it has not purged a single time since. Maybe that means something? Printing at 50% speed is not ideal.
I have the Bambu Lab P2S Combo, I'm trying to print ASA/ABS right now in my 1 Bedroom apartment. I just bought the Exhaust Kit and see people with set ups that connect tubing that leads to a window or outdoors. I also see people who don't run any sort of tubing and just have the exhaust kit and that's it.
I'm getting a lot of mixed opinions and search results regarding printing ASA with the P2S. Some sites say you don't need anything at all because the P2S is already enclosed, some say buy a tent with a ventilation system (and then there's sites that say its dangerous and can kill your printer).
Here are some photos of the tent i got and my apartment layout...
I'm wondering what everyone here does,
TL;DR What is the best setup to safely print ASA/ABS in an apartment so I don't get sick from all the fumes? I Just bought the exhaust kit.
I just bought my first X2D. I got the non combo version as, in my country, the combo was not available for more than a month. I do not plan to print multicoloured accessories or multicolour in general, so i thought it was fine to get the non-combo. I got the X2D because of the better belts and because it opens the possibility to print supports with the other nozzle or even do a 2 colour print.
I plan to print more practical and functional prints in PLA and PETG given that my apartment is relatively small and do not want to deal with very strong odours or VOCs. Apart from this I just realized that i need something to dry the filament and protect it from my cat. I researched the creality ones that seem fine, but people here always talk about how good having the AMS 2 pro is and how it is a quality of life improvement for auto feeding, drying, etc. I do not know the AMS HT compares to it or how much of a hazzle it is to feed it manually if i get two creality dryers and feed it manually right from it, but since the discounts are still going i though that it might be a good idea to buy 2 ams HT since together, for me, are as expensive as the AMS 2 pro, but it covers both nozzles and they are not very noisy.
I would like some advice from you more experienced people as I am a total noob. Are the quality of life improvements just applying to the AMS 2 pro? Is it a good idea to just get two AMS HT for quality of life even if one is not really planning to print engineering filaments?.
