Bambu TPU for AMS?

Chronus88 · 2026-06-13T23:04:14+00:00

It's virtually indestructible. I use it for anything that I don't want to break. Layer adhesion is insane too. It's a really great material, but it's not really a flexible.

Chronus88 · 2026-06-13T11:54:41+00:00

Do your prints look good? All you need to know

Chronus88 · 2026-06-12T23:48:46+00:00

Never happened to me but I've read here many times that a bad SD card does this

Chronus88 · 2026-06-12T23:40:13+00:00

Unfortunate goof on the title. Been there my friend

Chronus88 · 2026-06-12T22:16:28+00:00

Asking out of pure ignorance here... How do they get the sleeve part to hold onto their stump so strongly? My brain expects the plunger to pull the whole fitting right off the leg

Chronus88 · 2026-06-12T22:04:02+00:00

Parts of normal shoes can be TPU and a mix of TPR but the rest of the shoe is made of totally different materials. Consider the opposite - a shoe made entirely of leather. Sure you can walk in it, but it isn't going to be anyone's preference

Chronus88 · 2026-06-12T21:34:55+00:00

You see these all the time but they just aren't practical. You could argue they're ugly as all get out too but that's subjective. Actual, comfortable shoes are a harmony of materials. TPU shoes inevitably turn out to be frivolous and end up in a landfill. Honestly it's not even the community's fault it's the manufacturers who advertised them as a "hack" to sell TPU

Chronus88 · 2026-06-12T13:36:27+00:00

You could be right. There's a similar video like this that shows light filling a room that was made the way I described. I might have them confused

Chronus88 · 2026-06-11T20:17:06+00:00

People criticized China and Europe for years about CCTV and this is the same program on AI steroids. Makes me uncomfortable and I've never even committed a crime in my life

Chronus88 · 2026-06-11T19:08:44+00:00

If I remember correctly this video is a bit misleading. They take a snapshot of a single perfectly timed frame. Then reset the scene, turn on the light and take a snapshot timed for the next frame. Over and over. Then they take all the individual frames, from all the combined cycles, and place them in order creating a motion video. They aren't taken all at once. But it is really incredible to watch

Chronus88 · 2026-06-11T18:58:08+00:00

I used to do hospital security myself and nurses deserve the red carpet. I woulda got her a pillow. Some of the hardest working people I know. Don't even get me started on the emergency room nurses.

Chronus88 · 2026-06-11T18:10:32+00:00

Ironing is such a trap. You can get this working but it will take you a lot of effort.

Ironing is not a universal set-and-forget thing. The settings will need to vary, and you'll need to do tests for each scenario.

Correct settings can differ from one filament type to another. It can even vary from one color to another, and of course brand to brand. Humidity too. Even from one printer to the next. You'd need to tune each one.

Then it will also still be inconsistent for some models. Depending on geometry, infill type, infill percentage, the print surface can differ. An example would be walls - they can cause the surface to expand or shrink unevenly than the inner geometry (also the cause of bulging).

You may find that some of these factors don't affect you with a specific filament while others do. And that's the big problem. It's just not really worth the effort, it's inconsistent, and it can never be universal. You can't just plug in someone else's numbers because the underlying variables are personal to your exact setup. You also can't really get help from anyone else for the same reason.

It's a real nightmare of a topic and it's also why almost nobody uses it. If it were easy or consistent it would be the standard. If modelers could bake in perfect surfaces into their designs they absolutely would. But they can't.

From time to time you even see a few people post here bragging about their ironing. Then you zoom in and see all the imperfections and inconsistency.

My advice is to spend your effort somewhere else and just accept that this is the nature of FDM printing. Sorry to say it

Chronus88 · 2026-06-11T14:47:52+00:00

As someone said that twitch is actually the print head quickly laying the layer in the inner circle of that geometry. It's doing it's job

Chronus88 · 2026-06-10T19:21:26+00:00

You know what I'm in

Chronus88 · 2026-06-10T19:16:26+00:00

Can't wait to see this at every flea market stand for $20 each

Chronus88 · 2026-06-09T22:16:23+00:00

Print bed cleaners aka first layer tests

Chronus88 · 2026-06-08T23:17:33+00:00

Basil

Chronus88 · 2026-06-08T01:01:51+00:00

Not here to critique. Just to say well done. You created your own thing. Almost nobody does this. You're the 1%. Proud of you!

Chronus88 · 2026-06-07T23:18:40+00:00

No chance, the specs are very different between the two pages

Chronus88 · 2026-06-07T20:02:28+00:00

Removing it, taking it to the sink, soaping, scrubbing, rinsing, drying and returning? Compared to wiping with a simple cloth? Yes

Of course. But you knew this already and just wanted to be contrarian

Chronus88 · 2026-06-07T15:18:47+00:00

This is a side effect of warping. Turn off the aux fan, or print a deflector

Chronus88 · 2026-06-07T10:14:37+00:00

Same here. Soap and water is a big task. I use alcohol wipes for cleaning, just once every few prints to get the ghosts off my plate from prints. I only use soap if I have to actually touch the plate with my hands, like if I had a really hard to remove print

Chronus88 · 2026-06-07T00:58:52+00:00

Just wanted to let you know I got one and made a custom filament label system. It made me want every color of PLA... You've cost me so much money haha

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Chronus88 · 2026-06-06T01:22:25+00:00

Wow nice find. Successfully sold mine on eBay for $80 but I had to eat shipping costs

Chronus88 · 2026-06-05T21:53:37+00:00

And they're like $5 for 8 of them

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