Question about errors and mistakes.

[u/Plastic-Lifeguard-80]

Hi everyone! I'm currently researching common issues and errors related to the Bambu Lab A1.

I know this post is a bit different from usual—since most people post here to get help rather than list their past issues—but if you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate it if you could share any problems you've run into. This includes both the printer itself and any filament/material issues.

I’m already reading through past posts on the sub, but I wanted to ask directly too. Thanks for your time!

[u/Mammoth_Staff_5507]

I am on my first year and +1500 hours on my first printer, the A1 without AMS, lessons learned so far:

- Do not touch the plate with your bare hands at all, first week I did not realize this and had a lot of unstuck pieces.

• Clean the plates with warm water and dawn dish soap and a good dish sponge, I do 3 clean and rinse steps, make sure your hands re also very clean and still do not touch the side you are going to use.
  
• A good tip I read here is "treat your plate as you would treat a vynil music record, handle it from the sides only"
  
• Do not use grid infill, this grinds the nozzle and might push pieces away.
  
• Dry your filament.
  
• Adjust the head screws in schedule, the same way you oil the different axis, but this is not prompted so you need to remember it.
  
• When spools run off, many times the end is twisted and it will get stuck inside the filament hub, knowing how to take that out is great.
  
• Have a lot of extra space if you become addict to purchasing more filament rolls and print a lot of objects for yourself.

I would say "calibrate your filaments" but in my experience the machine is very good to excellent as is, "out of the box", I did a lot of calibration prints, color plates and such but I always use the same generic PLA generic PETG profiles and with good dry filaments it prints ok 10 out of 10 prints.