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Not had the pleasure of any being as bad as you make out there, I'm sure there are some that reek and there's no way I would leave it in the tank.

Maybe the ABS resin does, I need to try some because some of these figures are bash toys and wouldn't last 2 seconds with what I currently have.
 
yeah elegoos ABS resin stinks.

Also have the resinone flexibles that stink even worse.

Dosent really bother me but if i go out the room and come back after while its definitly noticebable

Not exactly wife friendly.
 
paulg100 said:
yeah elegoos ABS resin stinks.

Also have the resinone flexibles that stink even worse.

Dosent really bother me but if i go out the room and come back after while its definitly noticebable

Not exactly wife friendly.
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😂I went onto Resitone site and they give you a warning to keep ventilated, so once start going into the specialist resin then it will whiff.

That Anti-Impact they have showing a 3lb hammer on it and a car driving over a piece looks handy I think that will handle a ball smashing it.
 
I gather filament prints are stronger than resin.
But I have that covered 😁

It's also crossed my mind that for the amount it's going to cost for an anycubic plus and a wash/cure station I could almost get the prusa mk4 which folks are raving about. But I think 3 fdms is taking it too far 😁
 
yeah not easy to print and not great for fine detail though. Best bet to mix maybe 10-20% in with abs to take away the brittleness.
 
Pick your battles on what you want need to print for, 90% of things I could get away with standard. Definitely will try the anti-impact though and says that is pretty bad on the fumes. Looks pretty much unbreakable for a pinball machine anyway.

 
Flashforge Creator Pro now set up and running it's first print.

Bit more assembly required than the Adveturer, but nothing too taxing.

Levelling is done manually by turning knows, so only time will tell if I've got it right 🙏

Spool holders on the back don't fit the spools I've got, so will need to find a spool insert adapter in Thingiverse
 
Have pondered and perused for around a month now I kinda crumbled yesterday. Unsurprisingly Anycubic are on ebay so I clicked "Make offer" on one of M3 printer/wash+cure combos (at almost £100 less than the listed price) fully expecting to get it declined.
Woke up this morning to an accepted offer :)
 
I went with the Ender 3 S1 Pro. Mainly because I wanted the engraving laser option.

Printing is slow but its quality for me is good enough.

Bed levelling is a sod. But once its dialled in you're good to go.

My main gripe is the limit on the bed dimensions. I'm constantly fighting to fit everything in.

I'll likely buy a larger printer down the line, now that I've got my feet wet.

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Have just bitten the bullet and ordered a Bambu P1S complete AMS console to allow printing with 4 different colours at once (upgradeable to 16 different colours)

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Bambu Lab P1 Series | Reliable Out-of-the-Box Performance

With its CoreXY design and reliable performance, this series offers a seamless printing experience right out of the box and excellent value for its price.
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The fact that it is over 4 times faster than the Flashforge (can print a Benchy in well under 20 minutes) as well as having a much larger build area, should make it a significant upgrade.

Can't wait for it to arrive.
 
Wayne J said:
Have just bitten the bullet and ordered a Bambu P1S complete AMS console to allow printing with 4 different colours at once (upgradeable to 16 different colours)

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The fact that it is over 4 times faster than the Flashforge (can print a Benchy in well under 20 minutes) as well as having a much larger build area, should make it a significant upgrade.

Can't wait for it to arrive.
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I want one as I'm bored with dialling in my ender.

Let me know how it goes!
 
you caved :)

Honestly mate, been super happy with mine (carbon). Its lovely being able to just send stuff to the printer and walk away (and no dialing in at all, just plug and play)
Most of the time i send remote, dont even need to go in the room other than to switch machine on, just wait for the App to ping and tell me the prints finished.
Can even monitor whats printing at home whilst im at work.

The AMS can be a bit finicky.
All the problems ive had with it is filament breaking off thats gone brittle due to moisture so it dosent like that, but totally avoidable. Ball ache to get out when it happens though.
Stick with good condition filimanet and its very reliable, unlike prusa's previous efforts.

Theres always the manual spool holder for things like flex or filament that might have gone a bit brittle. prints TPU great.
 
I went for the carbon X1 but bang for buck the P1P is really unbeatable and is almost the same printer as the X1 anyway.
 
cant think of any must have prints really expect these for the AMS. Like i say it hates brittle filament and the small little trays that are stock in the AMS dont hold enough dessicant to last any length of time.

Printables

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must get back into some 3d printing myself, probably need to upgrade the printer first, any pointers on good ones these days (old one was a rhino or something like that, rhino in logo)
 
BigIan said:
must get back into some 3d printing myself, probably need to upgrade the printer first, any pointers on good ones these days (old one was a rhino or something like that, rhino in logo)
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I was really happy with my Flashforge Adventurer.
Levelling is easy, as is changing nozzles and really simple to use. Downside is it's slowest on the market and only has 150mm cube build area.

Bambu is over 4 times faster, plug and play self levelling and has a build space of 256mm cubed. Plus can hold 4 different spools at once, or even upgrade to 16 different spools if you want to fork out for an extra 3 AMS units at over £300 each!

Print quality on both is excellent and simple to use. I prefer to print without all of the tinkering needed on lots of the other manufacturers printers
 
Wayne J said:
I was really happy with my Flashforge Adventurer.
Levelling is easy, as is changing nozzles and really simple to use. Downside is it's slowest on the market and only has 150mm cube build area.

Bambu is over 4 times faster, plug and play self levelling and has a build space of 256mm cubed. Plus can hold 4 different spools at once, or even upgrade to 16 different spools if you want to fork out for an extra 3 AMS units at over £300 each!

Print quality on both is excellent and simple to use. I prefer to print without all of the tinkering needed on lots of the other manufacturers printers
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We upgraded our old trusty ender 3 pro this month to a Creality K1 (sale price), man, these new printers are amazingly fast, accurate and so easy to use.

That Bambu looks next level with the AMS units ..well jell!! I can't justify another printer...can I? 😂
 
the only thing that lets the bamboo down is the build volume

the creality K1 max is definitely worth a look for that reason expect you dont have the AMS option then, so really a case of whats more important to you.

The multi colour printing on the AMS sounds great but in reality is awfully slow and very wasteful so dont have much use for that.

I love it for having 4 spools of different auto loading material on tap though and obviously makes a great dry box.
Just means less fiddling and loading/unloading with having 4 spools ready to go so very convenient.
 
paulg100 said:
the only thing that lets the bamboo down is the build volume

the creality K1 max is definitely worth a look for that reason expect you dont have the AMS option then, so really a case of whats more important to you.

The multi colour printing on the AMS sounds great but in reality is awfully slow and very wasteful so dont have much use for that.

I love it for having 4 spools of different auto loading material on tap though and obviously makes a great dry box.
Just means less fiddling and loading/unloading with having 4 spools ready to go so very convenient.
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Yup K1 is big anf brilliant, but the two things that let it down is it won't do a gcode pause so you can change filament colour mid print and mine has blocked a few times (father in law has one too and he has never blocked yet). Stripping the print head down to clear extruder or hot end ( heat sync fin thing) is quite fiddly. Better with practice.

My wife is now printing more than me, and my father in law is on his every day and loves it. It's soooo simple to use.
 
Hear oodles of good things about the bamboo's... Apart from maybe their underhand practices of ripping off the entire online "printables.com" site.....
 
Holy Crap!

The Bambu is really easy to set up and start printing - less than an hour from opening the box to starting to print (and I was being extremely slow and careful and actually read all of the instructions first!)

Initial takes:

The print is FAST, that is what it says it does, and it doesn't disappoint. I loaded a few things in to the FlashForge slicer, and then the same into the Bambu slicer, they were all at least 3 time faster on the Bambu.
The print quality is awesome. I printed a Benchy first off the sample SD card and it is immaculate - took 22 minutes on whatever settings were preloaded. It came off the printbed with no issues whatsoever.
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Loading more than one spool in to the AMS is a godsend. Haven't printed anything in 2 colours yet, but had a quick play in the slicer and it was easy enough to figure out how to do so.
It even identified which colours were loaded in to which slot.
The camera is pretty decent quality as well
It creates a timelapse video of your prints for you after each print.
It looks beautiful 😍

The one downside is it is noisy and vibrates a lot, but doesn't impact the build quality at all - whereas the Flashforge would often have a problem if a big lorry drove past.
 
A week in and the Bambu is even more impressive than first impressions.

The 'issue' with noise and vibration is easily fixed by running it in 'silent' mode, which is 50% speed. It's not obviously not silent but it is very quiet, even at 50% speed it is quicker than the flashforge. I haven't yet had the guts to try it in 'ludicrous' mode, which is 200% speed, but will give it a go at some point.
What is a nice touch is that you can change this speed from your phone (or the machine) at any point during the print, so when I've had a long print I start it off on normal and when it gets late I run it on silent over night.

The adhesion to the bed is so finely tuned to be unbelievable. At the start of each print it goes through an autobed levelling sequence which takes a few minutes (I'm sure you can turn this off in settings, but I'm not in that much of a rush for my prints anyway). This means that every single print is perfect. More surprising is that once the print is finished and cooled down the model isn't stuck to the bed at all, it's as if elves have placed the finished model in the cabinet, rather than it having been printed in there having been stuck to the bed at some point.

I've done a few multicolour prints of varying types.
Firstly a simple switch colours at a particular layer height, this has minimal wastage (only the purge tower really) and adhesion between different filaments is perfect.
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Secondly I did a print of a 'zombie carrot' I'd found.
There were a couple of issues. One of my own making, the poop chute for the purged filament was blocked which meant the extruder head couldn't get back to position. The machine spotted this and simply paused the print until it was cleared. The second is the amount of wasted filament between colour changes was huge. The fact that it prints each colour per layer means that it can change filament up to 3 times per layer, each change only wastes a little, but it soon adds up. (I found a multicolour benchy to torture test the colour changing to really demonstrate this!)
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Thirdly I printed one of my bolt carriers with writing in a different colour. This was by far the most impressive. The definition of the type, the 'join' of the 2 colours, the smoothness is absolutely outstanding. If I hadn't printed it myself I wouldn't have believed it could have been printed this way - it looks like the type has been ink stamped on it's that good.
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What was also impressive is the information on the Bambu Lab Wiki

Bambu Lab Wiki Homepage

The Bambu Lab Wiki is a collection of helpful articles and guides dedicated to our Hardware and Software producs
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It has everything there you could possibly need, from specific hardware issues with each of the printers with easy to follow step by step instructions to how to dissemble and reassemble components, to correcting issues with printing - it is well worth taking a look - even if you don't own a Bambu - as it has generic solutions to print problems and the causes of them.

I'll put a different post up about the AMS, but that is also a fantastic piece of kit.
 
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didnt know about the speed change through app thing, thanks

re the bed levelling once its done once, it hardly needs running again unless theres an issue or your changing the plate., even with taking the sheet out to pop something off and putting back in i havnt bed leveled in ages now (using the same plate) and no issues.
 
I half looked at one of these (bambu) after feeling massively let down with the CRX-Pro I bought..
But im not sure I can bring myself to spend even more on another one because the last one sucked :D
 
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