10 Things I Love and HATE about my Bambu Lab X1 Carbon!

the bamboo lab X1 Carbon a machine that has taken the industry by storm I have owned mine for one month today and well things really haven't gone as planned so let's talk about some of my favorite things and some of my less than favorite things about the bamboo lab X1 Carbon Let's get into it hey guys welcome back to the channel and if you're new here hi I'm actually not a bamboo hater I just hate this machine we're going to get into why here in just a bit but stay tuned leave a like get subscribed if you're not and we'll get right into this after we tell you about our sponsor 3D Musketeers remember if you want to get high quality 3D printing services that are going to be way more reliable than my current bamboo lab X1 Carbon you can reach out to the pros at 3D Musketeers with over 40 printers and over 40 years of combined experience we know how to get your ideas from art to part as quickly as possible with a little bit of cash out of pocket we have experts in all different fields 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what it is and I can delete comments so have fun anyways let's get talking about this machine I'm gonna start with things that I like because I think it's prudent that we talk about some of good things that have happened before I get into the bad there's a lot of bad but I've boiled it down into a few that are really bothering me that at this point makes me believe I've got a printer that's got a problem but this thing is the fastest printer that I own I have never seen a printer before that can do 200 millimeter a second exterior walls and still get the quality that this machine has now mind you I've never built a voron machine and if you do want to see that let me know in the comments below maybe we'll see if we can uh head over to ldo see if we can make something happen this thing is insane it is the fastest machine that we have in the shop by far unless we're really running all the resin printers then I can beat it resin can be faster than this and the quality can be better but the materials are considerably more expensive as well when this thing does print well the quality is amazing especially when you consider the speed on it it uses a vibration compensation system which you see on the start of every print where the machine sounds like something that you might find in your bedside table rather than an actual 3D printer it works the machine has accelerometers in it that are able to measure the resonant vibrations that are produced during that and compensate for them this is more commonly known as input shaping where it is literally changing the frequencies and signals that go to the stepper Motors so that it reduces ringing to basically zero it's pretty cool but it does scare me from time to time when I run it because I'm not always expecting it none of the other printers in the shop actually do that I will say it's fit and finish is pretty nice there are very few printers out there that have this kind of fit and finish with glass on the front glass on the top and just parts that look like they could legitimately land inside of a normal person's house or inside of a business it's got it where it counts at least when it comes to looks but as we know beauty is only skin deep and she's got some skeletons in her closet we're going to get into those in just a bit I will say the touchscreen interface is really easy to use and the entire Wiki that bamboo has set up makes maintenance a little bit easier I just wish I didn't have to do it as often as I've been having to do it but what it is time to do that maintenance the machine lets you know and with the recent firmware update it even reminds you to go ahead and clean off the carbon rails as they can get get some VOC deposits on them from materials like abs and ASA I love that the machine has altration system although I find it to be lackluster back the piece that brings it all together for me is bamboo Studio I did not think that I was going to like it I'm a Persia slicer Fanboy as you guys know I love prusa I have 13 of their machines and I'm not stopping getting more bamboo Studio has surprised me not only are they adding features incredibly quickly it is fully open source now there were some struggles in the beginning to get it to be open source and some BS excuses as far as I'm concerned but now that it is open source the community in general is benefiting from it bamboo lab is directly responsible for the step file input that we have in Persia slicer because they developed it and because it's open source Persia was able to directly implement it into Persia slicer which is pretty darn cool that is only good for the industry I will say their implementation of tree supports is very similar to that of the organic supports inside of Persia slicer and bamboo has had it for quite some time and they work pretty good I'm happy with them I love the interface where I can directly connect to the printer I can send it files over the network and it will even alert me on my desktop if there is a problem the bamboo Studio ecosystem allows me to be a little bit more lenient about the Walled Garden that the and on that topic let's get into some of the things that I'm not a fan of that Walled Garden having proprietary materials and parts mean that all the spare parts that I have laying around are of no use to this machine while there are aftermarket hot ends that exist that do have an M6 thread they're obviously not going to be supported by bamboo lab anytime soon I will say they are incredibly communicative with the community at large but there are some hoops that they require you to jump through you all might have noticed this code that is sitting on my machine bamboo lab is requiring me to put this code in a video so that I can get a new fan for my machine now didn't need to be this video but come on we're gonna do that the motherboard fan on my printer has a bad bearing and after sitting out here and giving it the old Fonzie trick by smacking the crap out of it it is finally calmed down and I can film this video but we'll roll a little bit of footage so you guys can hear what it actually sounds like it's deafeningly loud speaking of which this machine is quite literally the loudest machine that I have and even though our lulzbot Taz 6 still has the worst piercing sound this thing blows it out of the water for sound in fact I've installed a muffler or suppressor system on the back of the printer to try to quiet down that chamber fan because it is so loud that I'm not able to have the chamber fan on a hundred percent when I go to film because it is actually picked up by my microphone over 10 feet away and we use a dynamic microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern which means it rejects a lot of background noise but not enough to deal with this thing while I love the glass on it it also makes the printer really really difficult to work on I can't describe how many times I've whacked my head on the glass here and it is nice to have a fully enclosed build chamber but when I have to leave the door open to print pla that kind of sucks some people will actually remove the top glass or put a riser on it but my intention for this machine is to put at more high temp materials rather than PLA and other low-tech materials I will say as the inside of the printer shows I think I've got a lemon and I say that because not only is it not successfully printing lemons unless they're this crazy lime color but because I've had lemons dropping on the floor but also outright failures that the machine didn't catch pure spaghetti that the AI failed to even acknowledge and at least 15 hours of my time going through and dealing with clogged cold ends which as you can see this cold end is properly clogged which has happened over a dozen times with different materials different manufacturers different batch numbers and even utilizing Bamboo's own orange pla has gotten jammed in this machine I have gone through two extruders my front tool head cover is completely messed up the magnets don't stay in it so the darn thing falls off half the time when it's printing this printer is a lemon and hilariously if I wanted a lemon that actually looked like a lemon I had to print it on my prusa because all the ones the bamboo did failed and it's more than just this how about a Banshee in pla look at this benchy this was stock speeds stock everything this is not acceptable quality Stevie Wonder could tell you that heck even trying to make spool rings for my favorite filament Jesse PLA and Jesse petg from printed solid completely failed at putting the spool Rings pla p-e-t-g pla so many failures so many headaches I have a lemon I know so many people that have had great experiences with this machine and honestly when it prints Parts they look great but I shouldn't have to print a part that the hot end fits into to clear a jam using an allen key this is stupid and I've identified why this is a problem when the machine goes to unload filament whether it's jammed or not it cuts the filament and if the material is jammed in the hot end for some reason you've just created a cold end Jam for yourself and maybe just maybe the anemic stepper motor that is used on the extruder might be able to push that thing through but chances are it's just gonna grind your filament and cleaning it out while not all that difficult and there is a great tutorial on the bamboo lab Wiki is time consuming and a very slight annoyance for me requires two different sizes of hex keys to do it I've Gotten Good at it for all the wrong reasons I can swap an extruder in less than two minutes I hate that and the only reason I can do it that fast is because I've done it so many times and dealing with support has been Troublesome they made me have a code in a video so that they know I'm not scamming them and while that doesn't say anything about support it says a lot about the users and that the users have taken advantage of support providing them with a voucher rather than the part where people are complaining about random problems to get free money from support and to be clear I have machines very close to the six-figure mark and those companies don't require it 3D Systems doesn't require me to have a code in a video to get parts because they know what my serial number is stratasys doesn't require me to do that on my polyjet because they know what my serial number is and they trust me if bamboo is having an issue with user fraud that's more of a user problem and not a me problem this is an unnecessary hoop and while I understand it's not that big of a deal it's one more little annoyance that I have to deal with spool compatibility this thing only fits spools of a certain size a certain diameter and a certain width if you want to run other spools you have to print risers for the AMS that make your spools sit up quite high and if your spool is too wide you have to make adapter rings and oh yeah if it's a cardboard spool you got to put rings on it anyways because the wheels on the AMS will chew up that cardboard putting that dust everywhere clogging up your AMS this is just poor design and before you say well why don't manufacturers go back to plastic spools it's because they're one of the worst problems in this industry tree there is so much wasted plastic in these spools that is generally not recycled now the rings that we have printed for the printed solid spools are completely removable and fit on their cardboard and their plastic spools so I'm actually quite happy about that all the files for these are actually available at the five dollar tier or higher in our patreon so if that's the kind of thing you're looking for go over there and take a look and while they do work this machine just hates Jesse filament every Jesse filament that I've put in it just jams it the yellow bird down here completed utter failure multiple times as you can see and the funny thing about this print it it really did spaghetti quite bad when it recovered is when the machine alerted me to Spaghetti detection it was the first time it has ever done that crazy to me I firmly believe I have a lemon but I'm not gonna push bamboo lab for a replacement I'm gonna let support do what support does and if they believe it's time for a replacement I'll get one but until then I've got a sixteen hundred dollar paperweight as far as I'm concerned for my business now to be clear I did pay for this machine relatively quickly it did some parts for a client that completely paid for the printer but it was not without its challenges I had over half a dozen fails in those nine prints alone and that is a real problem especially when you're batting less than 40 percent of the jobs that I've sent to this machine have completed and before you start typing in the comments about how much of an idiot that I am you should know I've been doing this for 15 years I was building 3D printers before a lot of you even knew what 3D printing was and that's not to sit here and stroke my ego about it but I don't work with companies like the Smithsonian and people like Snoop Dogg for no reason I'm known for my quality and so is my company this machine has problems at least it does for me now I can say I know some amazing people that have gotten amazing prints out of this machine and I would love to give it the chance that it deserves but we gotta do some repairs first so this coming Saturday join me as we do a live stream to fix this machine we're going to replace the motherboard fan we're going to replace the tool head cover we're going to clean out the machine we're going to take a look at it and I've got new boards to replace the broken tool headboards that have occurred during repair of the printer itself we're gonna do a lot of that and it's gonna be an AMS a structured around my experiences in the 3D printing industry and just kind of a hangout Stream So if you guys want to come over to that love to have you be a lot of fun it's incredibly ironic to me that I've been one of the more critical content creators about this machine from the beginning that their company started I talked about things like QC and QA issues I talked about them ramping up their staff bamboo lab is hiring support all over the globe if you want to help them out go apply I know they're hiring and that's great I'm happy for them but they've had customer problems go like this while their staff have only gone like this and if you don't have the two of them go up at the same slope you end up with a very unique problem you either have too many staff to handle the few issues that you have or you have way too many issues for these small staff that you have and unfortunately they're dealing with the latter this is a common problem when you look at scaling a business I will say I'm not really printing on this machine anymore I've tried in fact last night I did this lemon print which just released from the support not bad but I can only do it in this and actually failed near the top I thought it was funny to have the printer that I think is a lemon print lemons but it couldn't even do that reliably I think there's a lot that could be done to fix the problems on this machine things like if it believes it's jammed ask the user if it's jammed if it notices spaghetti check to make sure that it's not jammed first it would be awesome to have a feeding mechanism that detects a filament is rolling I thought it had one but if it does mine certainly isn't working because I've had a lot of jams where the machine doesn't even know that it's messed up because if you are jammed and you cut the filament we've got a problem if you give me the ability to pull the filament out myself as in go ahead and turn all the extruders completely off and by the way there is an extruder inside the AMS and an extruder inside of the hot end and there's a buffer system on the back that actually holds a small amount of filament so you're not constantly pulling on the roll up here you only pull on it once in a while that's a really cool feature I kind of love it it's a great implementation and I will say the failover you put two of the same color in is amazing I love it this AMS outside of the stream has actually been pretty Rock Solid the issues that I deal with are incompatibility with spools and that's more on the design of the AMS not the function of it I'm not happy and I really wanted to be I wanted to come up here and eat some Humble Pie in front of everyone and say you know I was wrong these machines are awesome but I'm not mine isn't I know those of you that are currently typing out comments most of you have probably had a great experience and I'm happy for you but mine's been a little bit different than yours that doesn't make me wrong it doesn't make you wrong it makes my machine wrong so hopefully we're gonna get this thing resolved but I will say I have really struggled with this machine and spent way more time than I think is reasonable over half an hour a day I have spent working on this machine when you tally up all the totals and like I took this thing to a public event and the two prints that it needed to do in fact one of them was this astronaut print this print it did the night before gorgeous print a lot of ringing but a gorgeous print overall completely support free by the way we'll link to this in the description I printed this on the machine it was not on the SD card it was not on the print queue it was not in any of the history for this machine at all when I arrived to my event and I'm on the new firmware which is supposed to fix that problem when I was printing the lemons the exact same thing happened I printed a different part it was these Rings they all failed so I walked away from it and I went back to printing lemons there was no lemons on the card anymore I've got the actual time lapses of it but I don't have the lemons I had to manually send the file rather than just print the file so there's still some tweaks that need to be done it's a firmware thing it's a relatively easy fix I believe but I'm not someone that has the capacity to do this printer has so much potential so let's sum it up I love the speed I love the quality I love the fit and finish it looks damn good I love how easy it is to use and I love the integration with bamboo Studio but I hate the Walled Garden I absolutely despise the amount of noise this thing creates it is truly a headache monster for sure do not have this printer anywhere near your bedroom if you have it in your house I hate all the maintenance that I have to do on it even though the wiki covers pretty much everything that I would need it did not cover putting the magnets back in the cover and none of the things that I've done have ever worked and I also really don't like dealing with support I should not have to do this and I understand it's not that big of a deal but it's a principle thing more than it is a real problem again I want to love this printer I think it's got a lot of potential no matter if bamboo lab is successful or they ultimately have to fold this printer is good for the industry as a whole it lets companies know that consumers are willing to pay more money if they get better quality if they get better speed if they get better reliability these are all things that we need to see get pushed in the community and printers like the sv06 from sovel and the new sv06 plus the eligue Neptune 3 Pro Plus and Max as well as other machines from major manufacturers are starting to have a lot of the features that we see in the bamboo while they're still keeping their prices relatively low you're getting a lot of bang for your buck I believe there are still some things to be worked out I thought waiting I believe around eight months since the machine came out would be enough for bamboo lab to get their act together unfortunately lemons still slip by just like the ones that have fallen on the floor through the video it leaves me wanting more and expecting more especially when I have so much money invested into this machine and sure I have machines that are well over an order of magnitude more expensive than this that we use all the time in the shop but from what I heard from everybody else I should just throw away the rest of my print farm and get a half a dozen of these from my experiences so far I want to take my buddy up who wants to pay me sixteen hundred dollars to fill it full of tannerite and give it the old Florida man treatment because I'm about done I've seen some people out there that have had issues some are very obviously the user some look like they're more of a hardware problem and while bamboo has fixed things like the Overflow problems AMS feeder issues there are still quite a few mods that I recommend that you do to your printer to ensure proper printing prowess including the muffler on the back and the PTFE guide for the tool head itself and we'll link to all of those in the description down below all available on prusa's printables you know something that perusa doesn't charge you for that all of you probably use and I think really the big thing that kind of rustles my jimmies the wrong way is the way that this machine has seemed to completely separate this industry from bamboo lab lovers and bamboo lab haters or supposed haters and it's very much a them versus us or US versus them mentality I don't have any ill will against bamboo they made a hell of a splash in this industry I'm told that they're working on a big printer I would love to have a bigger build volume than this and I'm told the p1p solves some of the issues of the X1 Carbon which is weird but okay and maybe we'll get one in to take a look at but as it currently stands unless bamboo lab wants to send me one for review I'm not spending any more money I'm hopeful for what the future holds for bamboo lab in the 3D printing industry as a whole let me know in those comments below what you want to see come to the bamboo ecosystem or the ecosystem of 3D printing in general I hope you guys enjoyed this video I know it's a little bit different and a little ranty but I know that's what some of you are here for but stay safe out there don't forget to call your loved ones and as always keep making awesome have a good one one last thing before you go make sure to pet your pets a little more often give them an extra treat there's been quite a few makers in the community that have lost their pets and uh it was a request that we put it into a video so be good to your pets I'm gonna give Victoria a little bit of love when this is all over she deserves it and so do your pets hey thanks so much for watching this video a massive thank you is out to all of our patreon and YouTube channel member supporters whose names are listed right next to me at the five dollar tier and higher thank you for all that you guys do to make this kind of thing possible remember if you want to join our groups come hang out with us you can do so by heading over to patreon YouTube channel members joining for the five dollar tier and hire to get your name in the videos and the 10 tier or higher to come over and hang out with us in our private Discord right below me will be the live stream where I unbox this printer Ride The Struggle Bus and a lot of people laugh at me maybe you'll enjoy that kind of thing and right next to that will be the entire printer maintenance series a series that even I've had to go back and revisit as I'm trying to figure out what the actual heck is wrong with this machine I'll see you guys down to those comments and the next one take care

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Length: 24min 37sec (1477 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 15 2023