Mine is apparently 10kg a week
10 kg a week? What are you printing? I have heavy months and lower months, but I would be surprised if I managed to hit 5 kg in one of my heavy months. Granted, all my prints are for myself or friends and they’re 95% functional.
At the moment, sculptures. They are between 200-300g per print. I am kicking off prints twice a day, for three printers.
Selling them I take it? That’s a lot of sculptures.
Ideally. Right now, I feel like I am just building a knowledge of art history.
Is the Bambu pretty good with switching from one filament to the next? I have a Prusa and I get the 3kg spools. I got the MMU2 and it’s a fucking joke. I removed it a long time ago. Hoping to get a Bambu for my next printer and exclusively use it in LAN-only mode.
I don’t know what were your particular issues, but I used to have problems with it not being able to home it’s motors and even failing to unload and load a cleanly cut filament. All it said is “MMU REQUIRES USER ATTENTION”. It was very frustrating for me, prints not being able to start etc. And of course the idiotic error message.
But about three weeks ago they released a new firmware version for both the MK3S and the MMU2. And I was surprised to see that the printer started displaying normal error messages and even a short link to the exact documentation page which explains the error condition. And basically mine was this: http://prusa.io/04306, which basically boils down to “Power issue detected”. I took a look into the mainboard box and indeed it was a loose connection on the positive terminal. I’m glad the thing didn’t melt or catch fire (the printer was a kit, which I bought second-hand, assembled by some random guy).
Anyway, you might want to put back your MMU, update it, maybe some of the issues will be better explained to you.
Heard it’s not too bad. The machine tells you the spool is empty and will pause the print. I did hear some people had same issues with it skipping a layer or 2 after it restarts.
It’s not without flaws, but I would recommend.
Just know that it adds time and waste to prints.
There is also a nice feature that allows you to automatically switch over to a new roll when the 1st roll runs out. That’s nice.
If I had a bambu I would too probably. I have a cheap fucker of a printer and already do a lot, with a multi color bambu I would buid a house
Not as fast as I’ve been spending 😇
@Rutty if he makes 10 kg of filament a week that could be worth as much as $1 000/week of product depending what it is
I would feel so bad for using so much plastic. I already feel like this when using a spool every couple of months.
I do use rPLA from 3dJake. Not really sure how much of it is recycled and where the material is sourced from though.
I am not opposed, assuming there isn’t a severe quality concern. I would rather like a way to recycle my waste plastic. There isn’t really anyone local that will recycle PETG or PLA.
@Rutty there is a way first cut the plastic then use a blender on ice crush but be sure its normal plastic second it has to be sorted by thermodynamics & shade of color
Yes! They do exist. It’s about $20k USD to get a system that will recycle filament.
I’ve also looked at the idea of using pelletized plastic and molds to make other products, like dominos for example.
@Rutty yes for the same thing for under $200 cdn just a smaller size but you can get a blender like a magic bullet ™ or a ninja blender
@Rutty correction PET & PETG is commonly used in water bottles in Canada if i am wrong you can correct me & i will do re-evaluation
PET is used in plastic water bottles, PETG is considered a contaminant and typically not part of the recycled waste stream, at least in the US. Same for PLA.
Although as you noted to pelletize plastic a blender would be a good place to start. The question then becomes what do you do with the pellets of plastic?
From my understanding it takes a system like this https://www.filabot.com/products to produce filament from waste plastic. That’s not to say you can’t used the pellets in some other way.
@Rutty kind Sir i kindly ask which time zone are you from i am Canadian from the eastern time zone
I am in California so PST
@Rutty now i understand i just needed a moment to settle anyways just like with pellets or dust is manufacturing for example how a injection mold works or how filament is made
The cost of having a fast printer ☺️ . I have an x1c now and my filament expenditure is way up. It’s also so easy to print from the AMS.
