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Hey.

I bought my wife a 3D printer for xmas, the bambu lab A1 mini, she does a lot of craft stuff and this makes natural sense. She already has a cricut machine, so this is the next natural progression.

Anyway, I have used it as much as her, so I bought myself the bigger bambu labs A1 and that arrived yesterday, so far I'm printing the top mount arm for the AMS lite system (both our A1 mini and A1 has the AMS lite).

I feel rather addicted to it, I'm just printing stuff for the printers at the moment.
 
Here are our 2 printers.

The A1 mini - you can see I have already printed some drawers for under the printer here :)
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And the bigger A1.
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For the A1 my area of my office for it is not big enough for both the printer and the AMS, so I'm 75% through the printing of the top mount as mentioned in my first post, should be finished around 11pm.

The AMS lite is just on a plank of wood rest under a heavy duty cutting board from IKEA, just so the AMS is close enough to the printer, but later I will remove the plank and mount the AMS on top, you can see half of the mount is already printed and installed on the top.

I may have also received delivery of a load more filaments aswell today.

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Yeah, finally finished the top mount and fitted it all this morning.

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A few nice little extras I printed for the printer, first a poop tray in the above image.

Cable clip to hold the cable coming out the right side better.
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Top clip to hold the USB/power/data cable away from the print head
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Spring tensioners to ensure the USB cable does not get over extended
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A bracket to hold the tubing from the AMS to the head is in a safe position.
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b0rn2sk8 said:
I bought a P1S in the run up to Black Friday, 3D printing addiction is definitely a problem.

I’ve done a 1.1mx1.1m tool wall using the multi board system. It’s not finished yet but it’s looking quite impressive.

I’ve just also acquired a IKEA BROR workbench with draws so I’ll be breaking out the gridfinity system for that shortly.

I’m also going to break out some PETG and ABS to have a go with on some bits that would benefit from more strength.

I think I’ve got about 30 reels of filament in stock now :p
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Can never have enough plastic. Let's ignore Greta!
 
I've had a nightmare today. I have had errors all day long, the printer errors at the start of a print. Filament feed issues.

I thought maybe it was the AMS playing up, but nope, I switched from the AMS to the external spool, didn't help, I have stripped the print head and the nozzle down about 4 times today, looking for blockages, I've cleaned my nozzle and tried my other 0.2mm nozzle I bought. It errors when it tried to feed in filament for the print, but its working as it keeps purging poop pre-print fine every time, so the extruder gears are working.

I resorted to taking all the tubes off and just feeding in 30-40 cm of filament manually in the top of the head without the long tubes to feed it so i could see exactly if it was grabbing or not grabbing from the extruder. I set the nozzle temp to 250 manually and just told to extruder to feed manually and it took all the filament in and melted it all out nozzle, so it all works there is no clogg, not issue taking in filament - I can only assume it is a faulty sensor, I have logged a support ticket with bambu labs and hoping they can send me either a new complete print unit or at least some parts to swap out and test/fix it.

This is what it is doing:

but when i use the screen and set the temp to 250 manually and use the extruder to push the filament through it takes it and you can see in the next video below it took it all and dumped it melted on the plate, so it shows there is not a clogg, or a blockage.

 
Not sure I have another Micro SD card, but I will hunt for one. I can see the files on the SD though.
 
I got my printer working yesterday, by setting it to not check for a tangle, the printer is fine. So this makes me feel the problem is 100% the sensor being faulty on the printer, thats not a major problem they are £6 on bambulabs site, but I've logged a ticket and hopefully they can send me a replacement.

Least my printer is back in action atm.

I did this last night, very impressed. I used a 0.2mm nozzle instead of the standard 0.4mm and went with some detailed settings 0.06mm lines etc. The print went from 1.2hrs to 10hrs due to my nozzle and setting, but well worth the time.

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And held up to LED lights.

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now my ideas is to make 3 more prints (diff photos) create a frame for them and install a LED light in the middle and have a mini lamp.
 
ElliorR said:
@Ace Modder are you aware you can do them in colour?

uk.store.bambulab.com

PLA CMYK Lithophane Bundle

Bambu PLA CMYK Lithophane is a four-color bundle of PLA Basic filaments for lithophane printing including cyan, magenta, yellow, and white. Based on the CMYK color mixing principle, this bundle can create a wide range of colors through the overlaying of the three process colors. With this...
uk.store.bambulab.com uk.store.bambulab.com
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I am, they are also cool, but I have ordered too much filament already, so need to behave for a little while. (I may have already spent £400 just on filament in Jan already).

I'm already planning to buy the litho bundle when I need order some filament.

Thanks for the heads up anyway.
 
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