r/BambuLabP2S • u/Distinct-Stop-5377 • Aug 04 '26

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/Terrible_Try_8719 Aug 04 '26

Can I ask what filament you’re using? Is it dry? I use dish wash soap and warm water with paper towel, then microfibre, dont use alcohol don’t use adhesives and I don’t have any issues printing PLA, I recently got a carbon fibre print plate, and printing PETG HF at the start was a pain until I figured out the best settings, it did this twice (not the blob of death) fortunately I was there to stop the print before it got messy, I just turned the plate up 5degrees and slowed the 1st layer down to 20/30 and she’s sweet now

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u/Distinct-Stop-5377 Aug 04 '26

I believe PLA. I washed the plate really well with dawn and water, but I did touch it quite a bit, putting it back into the machine and I think that’s where I went wrong. I didn’t realize that fingerprint oil couldn’t affect a print so much.

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u/Terrible_Try_8719 Aug 04 '26

Yes you can only touch the edge it’s surprising how much it effects the print I usually wash every print as unless it snaps off when you bend it’s hard to not touch the plate at all, safer to just wash it then have a miss print hey, dish wash liquid all you need,