I need to get myself one of these:
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One of us, one of us, one of us!
That will change shortly…
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Jellyx5
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Should I get a Bambu or a Prusa once the Ender drives me to insanity?
Or a better Ender like the S1 or V3-SE?
I remember seeing projects where people printed printers… What happened to that idea? Is there a nice open source version of that?
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Someone showed this one to me a while ago, seems neat
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If you mean in-general, the RepRap project is still very alive.
For a direct open-source alternative to Bambu machines (and surpassing them in some ways), there are Voron printers, with the Voron 2.4 being the closest in size to a Bambu Lab machine (but can go bigger too). They’re also CoreXY, and go quite fast. The Voron group designs open source printers, which are then built by the community, along with kit sellers online.
They’re a blend of off the shelf parts, primarily aluminum extrusions, and 3D printed components.
I plan on putting one together when I have the time and money.
You can either self source everything, or you can buy kits that come with everything. Some kits include the necessary 3D printed components, some don’t. There’s also the print it forward program, where other voron owners will sell you printed parts essentially at cost.
Now that I have a machine capable of printing ABS or ASA with high quality, I should be able to print the required printed components. The Formbot kits are ~$700-850 depending on options. The LDO kit is considered to be the best, and that’s ~$1500.
There’s also the Voron 0.1 and 0.2 kits, which are incredibly fast but much much smaller. Those go for ~$400 IIRC.
Creality is supposedly going to open source the Creality K1 and K1 Max soon, which are also corexy printers, but nothing 3D printed on them for parts.
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Salty Peanut butter and extra jelly
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One of us, one of us
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I can only imagine the levels of tease you are posting for your videos fail to load for me…
I swear back blaze hates me
ok they finally loaded…
yep… @amal has little to no hope… the dark side is upon him… he is enjoying it far too much…
(good omens season one- deeds of the day reference)
we shall have him
I will post a bunch of little files I’ve been planning for when I get my bonus for my x1
(soooooooooooon)
I do appreciate you posting how airtight the AMS is, I hadn’t seen that… I had been considering adding a heating rod or pulling the guts out of a cheap filament dryer and adding it to the inside of the AMS… but yea, with that level of air seal I don’t see the need… its just about maximizing desiccant inside
pop these into your spools to add a bunch more desiccant, also given that it will rotate, might increase effect since it keeps changing surface area
box to store the extra hot ends you picked up
basic poop chute
vase mode poop chute for minimal material usage
this is what I would try out given your setup, you can set up a nice little box underneath your table
you mentioned that the AMS just sort of sits on top, this would give you a raise so you can get in under it a bit and make it a bit more secure
this is actually very important from many many…many… reviews I’ve consumed, bits of plastic and stuff will fall down under your bed, but its a pain to get them out because of the lip, this ramps the lip so you can easily wipe stuff out
just a sort of generic tool station for your stuff
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Nice!
Also, a link you might find helpful:
This is the periodic maintenance recommendations for the X1C, it says when to do each thing. Mostly just cleaning sensors, wiping the carbon rods with alcohol, lubing lead screws, etc.
It mentions it, but due to the volatiles given off when printing ABS/ASA, if you print those, much more regular maintenance needs to be done to keep everything clean.
Also, b/c it can be easy to miss, if you buy any of the other print plates, besides the cool plate, and use them for PLA, make sure you open the door for longer prints. My P1S has the textured PEI plate, which you heat to 55c. Over time, with the door closed, the chamber can get hot enough to cause heat creep issues with PLA, and potentially cause a clog. I haven’t had any issues, but for any print over an hour or two I keep mine open.
(also, I would highly recommend the gold textured PEI sheet (not the black), it’s fantastic. Great adhesion, seems very durable, and prints pop off easily)
If you use the cool plate for PLA, or print in high temp materials like PETG or ABS, this isn’t a concern, and door can (and should, for high-temp) be left closed.
Sidenote: the filament cutter is such an elegant solution, and is what allows Bambu machines to operate with the AMS. The fact that it just has to push the printhead into one of the corners to snip the filament just above the nozzle is fantastic, and I haven’t seen it handled that way before.
I’ll have to get me an AMS at some point, although man the price is high to buy it separately. Should have maybe saved longer and bought the combo, for $100 less, but oh well.
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Also, I use this poop chute. It’s smaller, but I really like using magnets to hold it on the back. Since I don’t have an AMS, there’s a lot less purge, so I only have to empty it every 20 prints or so.
love this… you can also recharge silica based desiccant by heating in the oven to drive out moisture. I use a vacuum oven to pull the moisture out at lower temps. Best to use rechargeable silica gel packets that are already inside porous paper packaging and not the raw kind you can buy in bulk to ensure silica dust doesn’t escape into the AMS.
poop chutes
oddly I found a number of poop chute buckets on printables.com but almost all of them that I found (the full wrap-around kind anyway) were too big to be printed with the X1 Carbon… they exceeded the plate build area. Talk about irony!
I’m currently printing one I downloaded but can’t find the link for anymore hah… but it’s going well…
I didn’t even try with the standard plate… I immediately swapped in the gold textured plate 
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The moisture in filament thing is def over exaggerated for most materials. If you just keep your filament in a semi sealed box it will probably be fine. I’m in the middle of a swamp and don’t really have filament problems unless I buy crap filament or literally let it sit in a puddle. However PLA does seem to have a shelf life of only a few months if I leave it out entirely. My printer doesn’t have a shroud around the filament or anything though and I leave PETG loaded and it always prints beautifully with it. If you keep filament in air conditioning and print semi regularly you probably won’t even encounter the issue unless you want to print a wood filament or something else sorta exotic.
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Yeah I agree… there are a lot of CYA type statements about things like this for just about everything. Still, I get silica gel pellets with a ton of stuff I buy… swapping those out in the AMS is easy enough and can help guarantee my filament is well within moisture limits.