I’m hoping all the noise makes BL rethink sone choices before the new firmware goes live.
At best, they will change their mind enough that we don’t loose anything significant, and we can just keep our printers.
Then all we have to consider is if we trust BL enough to buy more printers from them. Or even if we want to buy their filament.
3D printing is not as strong as injection molding the same material in the same shape.
But you can beef it up. You can 3D print stuff much bulkier than injection molding can do.
If you really want to, you can also use stronger materials.
Also, even the weakest cheapo stuff you can get is plenty strong for most stuff people are printing.
Knowing about what makes a part strong or weak helps a lot.
This is the answer. They are bridges to support the next layer.
It is a stainless steel nozzle, but the real problem is that it’s not just the nozzle, it’s either “hotend” with cooling ribs etc, with lots of fiddling to connect wires etc, or “complete hotend” that also comes with a fan so more of the wires are already connected.
See https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/bambu-hotend-p1-series?variant=40923060797576
I wish they did like Prusa where you can also buy assembly, but they have one that is basically an adapter so you can use any regular cheap nozzle.
It’s a P1S. A nozzle that is hard/cumbersome to change is 15 USD. One that is almost as easy to change as a regular nozzle is 35 USD.
Add shipping costs, maybe taxes, the fact that they can have crazy delays…
I remember on my old printer I’d by a bag of nozzles even if I didn’t need them. But on a Bambu… Yeah, I’d try to salvage the nozzle too.
Yeah, it seems like “developer mode” is pretty much just “old fashion mode”. If they do it right, it looks like a solution to me.
But doing it right includes making it offially supported.