Stronger Filament

[BOB BLACKSHAW 1Participant @bobblackshaw1]

Hello, I’ve had my Bambu 1 now for a few days and quite impressed with it, printed out some basic shapes to see what it can do.

Question, can you get filament that prints out with a bit more strength, I’ve brought the basic black. I printed out a small dog but getting it off the plate caused some problems as the leg broke off.

I’ve also printed soft jaws for the chuck and a chuck spider which is useful tool.

The files that can be down loaded in my opinion I cant seem the point, why print a toolbox for example .

A bit of a impulse buy which I can see will be in the cupboard and used occasionally, but good fun.

Thanks Bob

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Bob,

If the printer to which you refer is the A1 version with no enclosure, then you’re pretty much stuck with the filaments recommended, of which I think PETG is probably the “strongest” your printer can manage.  Anything with carbon or glass fibre reinforcement are not recommended for the A1.  The PEI textured bed plate may be available for the A1 – I haven’t checked, but for my X1C it’s been a game changer for bed adhesion and easy release of the finished prints.

Perhaps you should investigate altering some of the printing parameters in Bambu Studio (or whatever slicer you use) to increase the strength of your prints.  I am not qualified to give directions on that score.  I can only say that a bit of fiddling with wall loops, wall thickness, sparse infill percentages etc, have all seemed to contribute to solid constructions which I have used in, for example, mounting the motors and encoder for my lathe ELS installation,, amongst other applications.

In my opinion, the BambuLab printer is a reasonably priced and very capable bit of kit.  You just have to get used to it and its little foibles,just like any other machine.

John

 

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

+1 for petg

[John HaineParticipant @johnhaine32865]

Also let the build plate cool b4 trying to remove the print.

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