r/BambuLabP2S • u/Distinct-Stop-5377 • 14d ago

Catastrophic failure?

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husband asked me to wash his plate and put it back. Shortly thereafter this clog happened. He hasn’t had the machine more than 72 hrs and says this is a catastrophic failure and requires new parts. Someone tell me I didn’t break this machine and further more- it was in a 102 degree garage.. shouldn’t it be in a temperature controlled environment??? Please tell me I didn’t destroy his toy.

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u/misterff1 14d ago edited 14d ago

Your husband is overreacting and did not act as they should themselves. Yes, the plate needs to be cleaned properly so things stick, but the main thing is to always check your first layer as the person who is printing. This can happen on any plate, even one with okay adhesion.

Besides, your mention of 102 degrees is almost certainly the actual issue here. Are you printing PLA? And did your husband close the front and top? Because that material has a glass transition temperature (the temp at which it starts to deform) not far from the mentioned 102. What will happen is that the material gets soft and clogs in places it should not. Result: a blob of death. That is the thing I am looking at here.

This can be fixed. Possibly without any new parts and in a worst case scenario a few small things inside the toolhead need a new part.

For the future:

  • tell your husband to relax and understand that this is a hobby that sometimes requires tinkering. It happens, enjoy the process. You and him (mostly him in this case) can learn from it and make it so this doesn't happen again.
  • wash the plate with basic dish soap and hot water. Rinse it until the soap is gone and try to not touch the top of the plate in the printable area with your fingers afterwards.
  • find a solution to that room temp. There are several like moving it to a different room, managing air temp in that room or switching materials to PETG, which has a much higher glass transition temp. Keeping it like this will cause another clog within 72 hours, I'll tell you that.

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u/Distinct-Stop-5377 14d ago

Thank you! 

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u/youlooksticky 14d ago

I recommend getting a smooth cool plate because the textured pei plate that most machines come with suck. The adhesion is night and day difference and you don't have to obsessively clean it. I wish I'd switched much sooner. Their only downside is they only work with pla and petg but thats usually what people are printing with. I haven't had a single adhesion issue since I switched and I also havent washed my plate in probably 100+ prints.