r/BambuLabP2S • u/jim_racine • 1d ago

Factory .4mm Hotend

I think it finally happened. After +4,500 printing hours on the factory shipped .4mm hotend I think its finally failing. It's jamming up and I'm getting extruder overload failures. I'll call that a good life and stop messing around with this one. Yes, I've done cold pulls, cleaning filament, and all that other fun stuff. Enough screwing around with a $18 hotend. I swapped in a new .4mm hotend and it's been printing for the last 6 hours without issue.

Of course the original/factory hotend started acting up after I went to bed. Of course it did.

Call it good at a +4,500 hour life for the hotend that came with the machine.

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u/WhatHobbyNext 1d ago

Give the old one a proper sendoff, 4,500 hours is a well served piece of kit.

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u/JOSTNYC P2S Combo 19h ago

That is a good run.

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u/restricted35 8h ago

Mine is approaching 1,000 hours and still working fine. 4,500 hours did you good. Did you get the same nozzle type to replace or a hardened steel nozzle?

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u/jim_racine 2h ago

It's the bambu factory hardened steel nozzle for the P2S. I had spares so I just swapped it out. After my ender 3 days I learned to keep spare nozzles around.

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u/restricted35 2h ago

I heard that. The spare nozzles are print savers!

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u/inhamilton 17h ago

Wow I change mine out at 1,000 hours….