SilverTriple's printing stuff...

[Dadio]

For a first print , very impressive , a Benchy in 17 min also very impressive looking at that Benchy and I'm being very picky , I can only see 1 fault , the box on the back deck should be two single perimeters with a gap between but you virtually never see it but it's part of the test , very very impressive Deeply jelouse
Really need to see a multi coloured print

[silvertriple]

Well... I may wait a bit before doing multicolor prints :
First I need to print some PETG parts for the Ender 5 enclosure. This is the first emergency, as the X1C and the Photon M3 are going to seat on top of that enclosure.

And beside this, I got an issue with the AMS being unable to pull filament when the spooler content is low : i got few error messages indicating a potential extruder clog first. Unmounted hot end and extruder and everything is fine on that side... Then it's a message about the AMS and the buffer. I do need to print a part to unplug the ptfe tube from the buffer to find out, therefore I decided to take the spool of the AMS and try from the spool holder, and it loads perfectly. I will print the few essential tools required for this : there is already a lot of tools for Bambu Labs printer on printables, and I may want to print them before starting to print the enclosure parts, simply because it may be of great help...

[silvertriple]

After analysis of the filament path, the problem actually came from the buffer spring which was stuck. Only way to unstuck is to unplug the PTFE tube at the entry of the buffer. Unfortunately, it is not easy to do, as it is inside the buffer...
Fortunately, there is a tool already on Printable for this :
https://www.printables.com/model/287529-bambu-lab-ams-disconnect-tools

Printed and issue solved. Probably one of the first tool to print when you have an AMS with your X1C

[silvertriple]

Printing a temp tower for PETG. It's a Sunlu White PETG, and the spooler is AMS compliant...


The engineering plate is on the other side of the cool plate (used mainly for PLA). I'm at my desk, watching this while it prints...
Once the temp tower is over, I'll set the proper temp, and the rest of the calibration will be done by the lidar while launching the next print...
This is incredibly easy when compared at all the test I was doing before...

[silvertriple]

I sliced the parts for the enclosure for the Ender 5 Plus. I will need to find some plexyglass and screws tomorrow to complete this.
At this stage, I did bnot care of the PSU : it is anyway set to dye at some point, and I'll replace it by something more reliable. In the meantime, It will be inside the enclosure.

Sliced, there is 3 plates and 11 hours of print. I didn't even check the speed, it is faster, and would probably be a plan of 36 hours on the Ender 5 plus...
I hope to be able to install everything tomorrow within the day (at least for the printer area. There is a storage area planned as well, but I did not get the furnitures yet...

I"m eager to have this done as it will mean : part testing can resume for the models I have ready, and I can get back to RC

[GoMachV]

That is really cool. l can't wait to see what you are able to print and the quality it turns out. I'd like to get rid of my 7 printers (yeah, picked up another stray lol) and get two carbons hahaha

[silvertriple]

Parts printed and almost everything is sourced, except the plexiglass which will have to wait on monday, as none of the home depots and equivalent didn't have 3mm plexyglass (and I do not want to reprint everything to suit to other thickness of plexiglass).


One of the club member's wife is starting with a Prusa i3MK3S+, and I told them about the Lack enclosure, and they liked the idea (because it will be nice in their spare room). They have to source the plaxiglass as well. They are retired and they have much more time to deal with this than me. She will look into this for me early next week...

I'm really tempted to build what I can to have a decent work place without awaiting the plexy to come, and change the plan again (would wait for the plexi otherwise)...
In the meantime the X1C prints, prints prints...

[silvertriple]

@Dadio, It will be soon time for multi color stuff... I launched the print of a poop box (yes, this machine poops ) before I start the color stuff...
And since there is still some green but not enough for the poop box, I took the silver silk PLA+ I used for the Samurai rims... And there is a logo on the box, so I colored it in green... It's a long print (Silk PLA+ is requiring slower speed than PLA), and the color will add some time for the filament changes.
In the meantime I took a picture of the first layer (it's not because I'm good at setting it, it's fully managed by the printer):

And I managed to add a micro SD card to the printer so I can get some timelapse of the prints...

While this print, I decided to preassemble the enclosure of theh Ender 5 Plus.

It will go in the corner where the X1C seats currently. The plexiglass will participate to reinforce it (currently the top is able to move in all direction), but I'll reinforce it further to make sure the X1C can sit on top of it (currently I don't think this would be possible)...

[Dadio]

Looks good , 3mm plexiglass will be plenty to give triangulation to the enclosure , it's all by going to look very pro and tidy compared to my craft room , virtually everything there is recycled material , our tables timber frames are reused wood from an old shed and our children's old beds , I screwed the tables beneath my printers to the wall for further rigidity , it's also good for the table beneath the printer to have some mass so both my printers are sitting on concrete paving slabs , it all reduces vibrations , looks pretty ugly though

[silvertriple]

it's all by going to look very pro and tidy

Well, hopefully, my wife finds it the same way
Because if it was only for me, I would not even consider such effort to make it look clean, honestly
And my wife remind me that sometimes, there is friends sleeping in this room, so I have no choice

I have two foam vibration dampers that are usually used under wash machines I will put under the X1C and the E5+. This should be fine for the E5+, but may require a concrete slab under the X1C as well... We'll see soon

[silvertriple]

The color option is nice, but it takes time...

The print took actually 3 times what it would have taken without colours, just because the color changes. I had to see if this works properly. and it is... I have a timelapse of it (that's a cool feature, and some said that it could be usefull when a print fails to understand exactly what happened).
https://youtu.be/ZMwVSWemvpA

And here is the print with the wastes



The purge tower could have been replaced by a random object, and at the end, any other multimaterial solution with a single head would have led to the same type of waste. I paid attention to what it did with two colors, to minimise the number of changes, it actually prints two layers and then changes material and print two layers... I guess that doesn't work that way for the layers where you need 3 materials. I'll have to find out one day or another...

[Dadio]

I hadn't considered the purge block needing to be the same height as the print , I'd always just thought it was a block at the bottom off to the side but of course it has to be the same height .
What is the print for ? Looks like part of a doll's house .

[GoMachV]

I don't see myself using that feature much, but to have it available on demand would be so handy! I don't know if I could justify the ams for the types of print I do, but knowing it can be added later and the cost isn't too crazy... Very nice!

[silvertriple]

I hadn't considered the purge block needing to be the same height as the print , I'd always just thought it was a block at the bottom off to the side but of course it has to be the same height .
What is the print for ? Looks like part of a doll's house .

The purge block is there until the last color change... It doesn't go up to the top of the print. This means you may have to play around to get colors on the bottom to minimize waste (additional constraint), and it can also be purged in teh infill, but that may be visible on the print with color bleed).

The part itself, is a "poop chute", a recipient to put at the rear of the X1C to collect the filament wastes...

[silvertriple]

I don't see myself using that feature much, but to have it available on demand would be so handy! I don't know if I could justify the ams for the types of print I do, but knowing it can be added later and the cost isn't too crazy... Very nice!

Not sure I'll use a lot the color change... It could be used to print alternate material to have break away support with super easy removal and 0 layer gap with the support and the printed part, giving you a nice and smooth finish where you usually have a not so nice finish dues to the supports... (and PETG works with PLA (and vice versa) for this, as well PC works with PA for this (and vice versa))... That's another way to tackle support issue...