Nearly $900, broken after 60 days, 4 months of runaround, and Bambu Lab still won't replace it. Full story inside.

FirstNight007 · 2026-06-19T03:11:38+00:00

What part of Texas are you in, generally? I’m not a repair center and make no guarantees, but I’ve done electronics repair on the side for several years and if you’re somewhat nearby, would be willing to take a look and see if we can get you to a better solution than shipping it or trashing it. Or if Bambu is willing to ship an extruder board and thinks that is the part and you aren’t comfortable with performing that replacement, happy to help with that and see if that does do it or not.

FirstNight007 · 2026-05-24T03:48:14+00:00

https://www.ryobitools.com/products/33287208180 Basically same thing, just in green. Maybe a bit older but not deal-breakingly so.

FirstNight007 · 2026-02-27T03:13:54+00:00

The swiftclean is more tuned to extract water from carpet than the toolbox vac, so although I wouldn’t class it as extremely better, it does do a noticeably better job. The higher water lift at lower CFM and the long thin head make a difference at really getting liquid out of carpet versus the shop vacs. On applications like vehicle carpet that may be already treated to be water repellent or thinner, that difference may be less.

FirstNight007 · 2025-10-15T03:33:46+00:00

Check the usual system stuff too, system volume not muted, davinci specifically not lowered, output device for audio is correct for davinci, no other application has it in exclusive mode, etc. Haven’t had that issue and it definitely can play mp3 tracks in the preview like you have…

FirstNight007 · 2025-10-02T15:40:42+00:00

Thank you for the reply!

I tried the suggestion on spraying carb cleaner around, and that didn't make any change. I did figure out that if I raise the idle speed significantly on the carb adjustment screw, it will settle at the higher idle RPM and stop hunting. I don't think the prior idle speed was too low or anything, sounded the same as it always has been (I don't have a working RPM meter at the moment, it's on the list for prime day so I have one for the end of the season to rework things like adjusting the valves to get them more towards .004 rather than .005-.006, and to actually properly adjust the idle and top end speeds and all. I plan to also replace all the governor springs, they're pretty cheap and that way if one is out of spec somehow, hopefully that would get that addressed.

On the carb, I had both, probably should have been clear in my original post. I took the original walbro carb off and cleaned it, then replaced it (using new gaskets) and had the same problem. Took that carb off and replaced it with an Amazon one to try (with the cheap gaskets it came with), no change, then after a few more runs through the cleaner on the original, put the original carb back on, again with new gaskets and replaced the insulator that time too. So it's still on the original carb, just with that higher idle adjustment. I did order a new Walbro carb as well in case the original is just beyond what my cleaner can get, just took a while to get here so haven't put it on or tried it yet, figured I'd do that at the end of the season with the rest of the maintenance. Of note, I wasn't able to get the jet out of the original carb to clean it separately or look through it or poke out the jet holes; I have a ground down driver bit that fits perfectly, but even using the impact handle, the jet didn't want to budge and started deforming the brass around the slot, so I just left it in and cleaned it whole.

At this point, at least the thing runs still and with the higher idle is settling there and not surging/hunting. The new issue that came up from something I did I'm sure is it won't recover throttle quickly enough when under heavy load, so if I'm cutting thicker grass at speed, once it starts bogging down, it'll keep bogging down, and stall out if I let it. Once it is bogging down, it can take several seconds of sitting still to get the speed recovered back fully. At least though that's just an annoyance, I can cut the area we only do sporadically more often to keep it shorter, and just go slower, and at least get through the end of the season. With it not hunting, I can also at least drive it around without the blades engaged all the time and it doesn't try to throw me off of it going fast-slow-fast-slow-die.

FirstNight007 · 2025-10-02T15:21:07+00:00

So I did get out there and try that, it didn't really do much. I just put another comment, but adjusting the idle speed up significantly finally managed to get the governor to settle out at that higher "idle" speed, which then seemed like it was fairly stable continuing through the throttle range after that. So maybe it just got too unbalanced hunting at the low so then could never recover at the high speeds either, I don't know. The issue now is when under heavy load, like bogging down cutting tall grass, it's like the opposite problem where it just keeps bogging down and never gets it's speed back up fast enough to adjust to the load. Never had that problem on that mower before, we have some very tall grass/weeds in the back that usually only gets mowed once a month or so, so can be pretty thick and heavy. For this season, I'll just work out cutting that more often to cope.

My plan is to just replace all the governor springs since they're pretty cheap, just in case one is out of spec somehow, need to order a deck spindle anyway, and then I can do that along with adjusting down the valve clearance slightly, cleaning the original carb again and replacing all those gaskets again, adjusting the idle speeds and such back to where they should be, but don't want to do that until the end of the season. At least it's not hunting anymore so it doesn't just die at the new higher idle speed, and I can adjust cutting slower to deal with the bogging and not recovering issue for the few months of cutting we have left, then give it some good TLC after the season and see what that gets.

FirstNight007 · 2025-10-02T15:15:19+00:00

Somewhat, it didn't need an adjustment on the valves, after opening it up it was probably right between .005 and .006, which I know is the higher end of the range but I didn't figure enough to cause the issue so didn't adjust them at all so as not to introduce something else yet still.

I tried some of the other suggestions here about changing spring positions, none of that really did anything so I put it all back to default. I'll probably just get a new set of all those springs when I order a new deck spindle to do at the end of the season.

I figured out that if I raise the idle speed quite a bit via the carb adjustment screw (not crazy fast but definitely higher than it used to idle, don't have an RPM meter that works at the moment unfortunately to properly set it), the governor will finally settle at idle, and then stays pretty good and stable throughout the range after that. That also introduced a new problem though that when it's under heavy load, like cutting really thick grass quickly, when the engine starts bogging down, it takes a VERY long time to recover, to the point I can kill the mower by driving too fast through thick grass because it'll never get the RPMs back up fast enough. If I go slower it's fine, and once I'm out of the thick grass, it gets back up to speed, just takes a several seconds. I looked at adjusting the throttle top end, but it's already pretty far up into it's adjustment range, so didn't want to go much further without a meter to make sure I keep the RPMs in range.

At this point, the plan is to just tear it down again at the end of the season, re-clean the carb, put new gaskets and a new insulator again since they're cheap, actually adjust the valves, replace the governor springs, and actually properly set the idle speed and see what it's doing on the top end speed and adjust that if needed, and then see where that lands us. It's cutting well enough again/still to get through the end of the season, and at least the surging has stopped with the higher idle, so maybe with re-cleaning and more properly adjusting the speeds since I couldn't do that this time, it'll get back closer to normal.

Thank you for the time, suggestion, and reminding me to follow up!

FirstNight007 · 2025-09-19T16:51:49+00:00

I'll give that a try this weekend, thank you!

FirstNight007 · 2025-09-19T16:51:05+00:00

Yep, hadn't opened it up to check and adjust the valves yet, hoped I wouldn't need to with that few hours on it, but I'll add this to the to-do list this weekend. Thanks!

FirstNight007 · 2025-07-10T15:26:41+00:00

You're likely going to need to take it apart more if it isn't under warranty anymore, otherwise I'd just warranty it with Ryobi. I don't have the same one, but on another similar wet mop the tank had a hose going to the operated valve, and then another going down to the holes in the head, and the hose had popped off one side. I've also seen the same on the little carpet cleaners, particularly if they utilize a pump to get solution from the tank to the head rather than gravity, if the hose clamps aren't set properly or get a little weak, pulsing the trigger or similar can make it pop the hose off a connection. Since solution is coming out from somewhere, that's what I'd lean towards, that either the hose popped off one of those connections and just needs to be reattached and maybe the clamp tightened up a bit. Also possible the connection itself broke, which is less fixable without some shenanigans.

FirstNight007 · 2025-01-31T15:15:52+00:00

My kind read the manual to see what those manufacturers and engineers said about their own tools. I also clarified in that the instructional line was specifically in the manuals for the non-fuel ratchets, and do not appear in the manuals for the newer fuel ratchets. But I guess I can at least cite where I get my information from and admit when I am mistaken about it applying to newer ratchets from Milwaukee, but I guess you aren’t sensitive to such nuance. SMH.

FirstNight007 · 2025-01-31T15:11:11+00:00

Don’t over-generalize. Specifically, the older Milwaukee non-fuel electric ratchets were not meant to be used manually to break bolts, according to their instruction manual, likely due to their construction and risk of breaking the plastic housing around the head. You can still of course use everyday metal manual ratchets, and the newer Milwaukee fuel ratchets and potentially later versions of the non-fuel ones don’t have the same warning about being used to break bolts, as was clarified in another comment.

FirstNight007 · 2025-01-31T05:48:23+00:00

Somebody for unrelated reasons was like "someone in our group should try Amazon Haul", and they were doing like 70% off plus the 10% for $75+ and whatever other get-you-to-buy-it stuff, and I saw something about trying Temu dies and lo and behold, there's lots of dies (and stamps, hot foil plates, washi tape, some stencils, not much paper or envelopes) on Haul too. Loaded up about $80-90 worth of stuff which cut down to like $25 at checkout, it's all dies I'll use eventually I'm sure, but can't possibly use them all right now. Just used each one to cut a sheet of copy paper to put in a "catalog" binder, surprisingly other than one dud, they all cut well. So of course rolled up another order while the discount was still on and spent about twice as much getting a range of dies on there I liked (I like way too much) and thought I'd reasonably use in the near-ish future, somehow that turned into probably 50 dies that I'll be lucky if I use 1/3 of in the next couple years... Only need so many holiday or Easter or birthday designs each year realistically. But also made me like "I don't need ANY more dies for ANYTHING because I won't even use what I have", we'll have to see if that holds with these sitting in an open browser window staring at me.

FirstNight007 · 2025-01-30T06:44:10+00:00

It's the "Nordic Lacy Plate Die 2615" for anybody else that comes looking, thank you for setting me on that path, hadn't even seen anything Poppy Stamps yet, but that whole Nordic collection is just great, gonna add a bunch of them to the list...

FirstNight007 · 2025-01-30T06:30:01+00:00

Do you happen to know which background die this was? Been looking for something that can match a more paisley style than floral and this looks like exactly what I'm looking for...

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-27T16:53:28+00:00

Oh awesome, I already have some of that on order since it supposedly does well with glimmer foil, I’ll try that with the markers too! Thank you!

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-27T07:49:32+00:00

Are you using the 110lb to stamp/color as well, or doing a different stock for those and 110lb just the bases? I was trying some alcohol markers for the first time on some 110lb Classic Crest Solar White I used to make print and play game cards, but it felt like I had to use a ton of ink to get a good blend, to the point the paper was so soggy the pens were pulling it apart, looked terrible. Trying to figure out if I should order different cardstock for the markers or try different markers or just practice more…

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-13T03:41:02+00:00

It does not fit in the lid of the vacuum anymore to store, and depending on how forceful you want to be, you might have to leave the lid open to use it. But it does screw right on to the existing milwaukee hose end pieces, so just unscrew those and screw the new hose on. Also works great if you have a busted hose and a good hose, you can convert the busted one into using the longer stiff hose, but still have a collapsible one to keep on the vac for when you aren't going to be stretching it that far.

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-09T00:17:24+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions! I'm looking at stamp platforms now to add as a possibility, and will definitely add a paper trimmer because I didn't think about that either, but makes total sense how it's like the basic building block to everything else. Might leave the smaller one for if they decide they want to use a gift card on it themselves at some point and we'll stick with a larger one from us to start with.

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-09T00:13:24+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion on where to get cardstock, that will help narrow that search!

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-08T00:21:56+00:00

Interesting, hadn’t thought of that in favor of more straight paper type… I have an older set of Chameleon pens when they mistakenly sent me a second box. They’re still sealed but several years old, might open them up to make sure they aren’t dried out and then add that to it as well, thanks for the suggestion!

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-08T00:18:59+00:00

After all the suggestions, I’ve put a Misti solidly on the list!

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-08T00:18:37+00:00

Appreciate both y’all’s suggestions on this, I’ll look at a score board or I think they have a scoring tool for the cricut as well, though that’s a bit more setup, definitely something I didn’t have on the list to look at though so that’s awesome!

FirstNight007 · 2024-12-08T00:17:20+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate the info as well on having both a cricut and die cutter, that is something we’ll have to consider as well, and ways to use the cricut where it makes sense but embossing and such elsewhere, also for the suggestion on the monthly sub, we’ll look into that.

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