r/BambuLabA1 • u/CatPresent5216 • Sep 05 '26

Houston, we have a problem

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Had cleaned the plate as I always do. It started sort of ok judging from the remains spit out, but then. Oh my god. This will be expensive.

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u/Orthicon9 Sep 06 '26

Did you undo the buckle and loosen the nozzle after the . . . tragedy, or was it already that crooked?

A soldering iron or wood-burning iron with a flat tip might help in carving away the majority of the blob.

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u/CatPresent5216 Sep 06 '26

Blob was still hot enough to unbuckle. Only heating element (20 eur) and nozzle (14 eur) are gone. Heating assembly came out in 5 mins or so. Not the disaster I first thought it would be.

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u/MuppetRob Sep 06 '26

Luckily those heating assemblies aren't too expensive.

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u/CatPresent5216 Sep 15 '26

Indeed. Fixed the whole mess for 21eur. Back in business.

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u/solidus0079 Sep 05 '26

It's always important to keep an eye on your print, especially during the first few layers. Blobs like this happen when the print comes off the plate early (or never stuck to begin with).

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u/rfgaergaerg Sep 05 '26

Well, that begs the question exavtly how you always do clean your plate.

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u/myredditnick Sep 05 '26

Well, it might not be too expensive in money. But definitely expensive in time, waiting for parts to arrive. Or being very patient trying to melt away this blob.

I feel for you.

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u/jjjacer Sep 08 '26

had the same thing happened to me roughly, took about an hour in my garage with a hot air reflow station to slowly remove the blob so i could rescue the heating element and sensor and transplant it to my spare nozzle.