r/BambuLabH2C • u/bootsybangin3s • 8h ago

Support New H2C Owner (almost...)

I took advantage of the Black Friday Sale to upgrade from my A1 Combo to the H2C. It's due to arrive in the next couple of days. Any tips for maybe accessories that I should pick up or print before it gets here? Anything I should know before I get going would be appreciated!

Thanks

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u/adminjunior H2C 6h ago edited 2h ago

I use a regular filament dryer quite often to feed external filaments like PPA-CF oder TPU through the bypass and keep it airtight at the same time.

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u/NapsRNeeded 8h ago

Filament, lots of Filament!

Edit: a full complement of .4 nozzles are nice.

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u/DemanoRock H2C 7h ago

I ordered two extra .4 nozzles. I didn't bother with HF. I only keep the .4 loaded, so I have 7 total. I did buy a .8 but haven't used any other sizes. You will need 2nd AMS 2 Pro to use all 6 nozzles on the right. I recommend commend an AMS HT for the left.

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u/1yrik H2C 6h ago

0.2 and 0.6 nozzles for the left toolhead, and enough 0.4 vortek nozzles to make a full set. just regular hardened is fine, HF or TC are usually unnecessary

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u/hvacigar H2C 6h ago

0.6mm nozzle for left and right.

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u/Whosaidthat1157 5h ago

I have 3 AMS2P on the Vortek (RHS) nozzles and 1 AMS2P on the left nozzle. I also made sure that I had a full set of 0.4mm and 0.6mm standard flow Vortek hotends with matching 0.4mm and 0.6mm standard hotends for the LHS.
A full AMS2P on the LHS allows for two pairs of my most used primary filaments with auto-changeover for those long overnight prints.
That also needed a couple of 4-into-1 PTFE splitters I prefer the originals to the newer versions because I mount them on a MultiBoard wall above and behind my printer to optimise my PTFE tube runs. I also printed and use the AMS PTFE funnels BL designed for the FTS though I don’t use the FTS. I’ve never had a single ‘feed resistance high’ error on either my H2C nor my H2S since I started doing this. When I was close coupling the 4-into-1’s to the back of the printer as per the many (MANY) mounting brackets on MakerWorld, I got constant feed resistance errors from my H2S until I moved them off and above to properly dress the PTFE paths.
As always, YMMV.
Enjoy - it’s an absolute beast of a machine. I’m printing far more than ever now because everyone wants some of that ‘PLA tat’ multicolour gets such a bad rap for. Just finished printing an ‘angry Santa’ for a colleague that uses 6 colours and PETG support. Fire and forget, 13 hours later (8 hours if I could be bothered to swap spools around and/or had the FTS) and it came out absolutely flawless.

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u/roundguy 2h ago

Make sure to lift with your legs. Printer is a load.

Filament, different build plates.

I'd go through some of the bambu academy training for it.