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Bambulab A1
🕑 Added 2023-12-14 00:03:04 +0000 UTCI got to see the Bambulab A1 in person at my local Microcenter store. They couldn’t reveal pricing until tomorrow but I got to play with it. It seems like a decent bedslinger.
I think the A1 will do fine but it didn’t blow me away with print quality. If it does come in at $399 for machine and $559 with AMS, as expected, then it should do well in the market.
I also found out Microcenter had the Ender 3 V3 SE in stock for $169 so I bought another one. Couldn’t pass up that deal. They also had the K1 Max in stock for $699. I couldn’t afford that but that’s a great deal as well.
I was able to print a 20 minute 3D Benchy and take it home for comparison.
Comments
WILLIAM YOUNG
I have a request, and your the problem solving man for the task. It's for the AMS lite, when I want to print from external filament spool, of coarse I need to remove one of the Boden tunes from ams lite 4 way splitter. And the insert the supplied single Boden tube I that one spot. I know there are Y splitters out there for the original Bambu labs AMS. My thought is to have one for the top of the AMS lite 4 way splitter, that feeds the external spool. But, that also has the structural "support" of the other three AMS lite Boden tubes. That way one can back a designated AMS fed filament back, and feed in the external filament with or with out its Boden tube. Hopefully you can understand what picture I'm trying to paint here.
Bill Karkula
$559 for the ams w/A1 combo at Microcenter
Anthony Rivera
Oh nice, thank you.
Chuck Hellebuyck
Print quality is equal but faster
Chuck Hellebuyck
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Bill Karkula
Bambu has certainly elevated the 3D printing game - they are not through innovating. People will be suffering from buyer's remorse when the next gen units are released and they wish they would have waited. The best innovation which I hope all follow is an easily replaceable hot end you can swap out and get back to printing quickly. After a month and a half with the K1 I am a corexy convert for speed and especially footprint over a bedslinger. Saving for a 300 x 300 mm bed corexy to replace my beloved original CR-10. I'll still have a few bedslingers (small and very large) but replacing the CR-10 will regain a lot of bench space.
Anthony Rivera
What’s the bed size?
Roxolid Productions
My thought looking at the A1 is that it's going to compete more with prusa and the MK3 and MK4 then compete with Creality in the Ender line. How do you feel the print quality is in regards to these comparisons?
