spiritburner
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only buy from Bambu , dont use other retailers.
Considering dipping toe into 3d printing so what do you think of this one?
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Do you have a link to that offer? I just searched the site but didn't find that price. Thanks.
This link should be the A1 Mini on its own, you'll also need to enter the code 3DPA1MNY when you checkout to get it down from £169 to £154 (the code is part of the end of year sale)
https://uk.store.bambulab.com/products/a1-mini?id=42157097517116
I bought my mini a few months back and it is absolutely fantastic! I've had a few 3d printers over the last decade and this is the first one I've just been able to send a print to and not worry about it starting properly. Definitely worth adding a 0.6mm nozzle on if you're going to be printing functional parts as you can increase the layer height and speed things up quite a bit.
https://uk.store.bambulab.com/products/a1-mini?id=42157097517116
I bought my mini a few months back and it is absolutely fantastic! I've had a few 3d printers over the last decade and this is the first one I've just been able to send a print to and not worry about it starting properly. Definitely worth adding a 0.6mm nozzle on if you're going to be printing functional parts as you can increase the layer height and speed things up quite a bit.
That's great - thanks Zach. It's still just a possibility, but I'm very tempted. Could come in really handy for missing/ replacement parts, and a good learning tool.
eat - how come posts in this part of the forum don't appear in the 'Latest posts' list?!
ThornOfCamorr
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+1 to Bambu Lab printers. I've had a Creality CR-10 for 7 years and hardly used it as there were always problems with the print or the printer. Permanent tinkering and fixing.
I've a P1S now, works flawlessly every time. Really good print quality and hardly a failed print
I've a P1S now, works flawlessly every time. Really good print quality and hardly a failed print
Roysy
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I have a Prusa Mk 3s and a Bambu X1c. I loved my Prusa, bought revo interchangeable nozzles, use Octoprint for remote access and have an enclosure for high temperature printing. It prints fantastic, easy to replace parts not that I have needed to for the many years I used it but ........... since having a Bambu I hardly use it. Bambu just is so much quicker. If I was starting out at this time I would go for a Bambu although if I could wait a year I would also look at the recently released Prusa Core. My impression is that Prusa quality and after sales beats Bambu but Bambu technology is still ahead of the game.
spiritburner
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I'm the same, bought Bambu and stopped the CR10S's mk2 overnight and never touched them again, eventually sold them on. I did toy with the idea of getting a mini Prusa but at around 550 euros against 199 for the A1 mini there was no competition. SoI bought that for my desk and the X1 for all my main stuff.
European companies just cannot compete with the chinese wages market so unless import tariffs go up severely we will end up putting our home companies where ever w elive eventually out of business then of course the headlines this week are all about just how much data are we giving back to China with all this tech we own now and what are they doing with it ,selling it? using it in some way .
I digress now and all I can see is China is playing a very long game, decades long in planting its people and technology everywhere in the world that is not their own land. I only have to look in my closest town here in Sitges, Barcelona, Spain and see the difference it has made in 25 years to the local economy and shops.
When I arrived 25 years ago there was just one or two Chinese restaurants, now they are everywhere, then small shops, then larger shops now supermega supermarket type shops selling every conceivable item that China makes., now massive warehouses you name it they have their fingers in every pie over here, employees are all Chinese, very ratre to see a single Spanish person working for them, none of them speak the Spanish or Catalan.
It really worries me to see this happening because its not just the small towns I go to its also in the cities and even in small villages. Because their prices are so cheap it forces the local shops that have sometimes been there for 50 years to close down and it prevents newshops from opening as they can not compete with the prices and staff wages.
What I fail to understand is why the people in power do not see what is happening and take action now to stop this spiralling out of control, before long we will end up with Chinese politicians in our local government and where will that lead us to.....
I have friends all over Europe and back in the UK and they tell me the same stories.
China is taking over by Stealth and are prepared to wait decades to do it. If you are not really certain about this then take a look at Africa and see just how much China now controls. While Russia is losing in The Ukraine China is winning in the long game.
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