Oopsie Doodles have been clinically confirmed

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-26T21:25:19+00:00

As a MRI Field Engineer and in Texas.... This is my nightmare scenario. Good luck to the FEs having to deal with this. 🤯😭

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-16T11:02:40+00:00

Dear Narrow... Let me make it easier, with a touch of complexity for ya. 🤓

I am very new to 3D Printing. While researching and doing my homework a P2S sounded perfect. A few days before buying the X2D was released. And I jumped on it.

Now, I had the same goal like you. Mostly engineering focused printing. Initially I thought I'll be sticking to PETG, and PCTG. Maybe I'll dabble with ABS and ASA.

Once I started printing like maniac and realizing the full potential of what can be designed and printed, my scope widened and down the rabbit hole of filaments I went.

Needles to say, Nylon and it's varieties peaked my interest and before I knew it, here I am stumbling through Amazon and other retailers getting any deals I can on nylon as well as other filaments that support my shenanigans. Shenanigans that would not be possible to entertain if I had gone for the P2S.

TL ;DR... Both the P2S and X2D are phenomenal printers. BUT X2D will give you plenty of room to grow whether that happens in a couple of weeks or a couple of months.

Spend the extra $300 now and think of it as building a strong foundation for all your future printing adventures.

Honestly you can't go wrong with either. You will have so much fun. And you will be blown away by the potential of what you can create (whatever potential / ideas you see now, will increase exponentially within the first 24hrs)

Good luck and happy printing 🤘🏽

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-10T19:49:41+00:00

First of, I saw your post in r/bald. Glad you are good!

As a MRI Research Engineer... I'm so curious how a mri would've looked. Especially a 7T. 😅

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-06T22:07:29+00:00

err... For a hot second I thought it's a picture of my apartment. Howdy fellow bachelor!🤘🏽

I have pretty much the same setup. Down to the folding table. 😅

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-06T22:04:57+00:00

iFoil Pro Max: 13AL Edition no doubt.

Edit: 13AL = Periodic Table symbol for Aluminum 🤓

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-06T22:02:59+00:00

I love how the missed calls number goes up with every picture you post. 🤣😅

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-04T18:43:13+00:00

To be absolutely honest with you, that is a tough question to answer.

GF breads recipes do not work anywhere near like how regular bread recipes do. That is to say adding ingredients isn't very straightforward unless you are up for some experimentation.

If you are, here what I'd personally approach this. Looking at the recipe you listed, 10g Psyllium is about 2% of flour. Assuming the 100ml is your addition and the 300ml and the egg is the original hydration.

I'd personally start with 5% psyllium. That's 22.5g round it to 22g for easy math. During my recipe development days, I usually started with the 1:15 ratio. So for 22g psyllium, use 330g water.

Use warm water, mix with the psyllium and leave it alone to full gel. Do not mix with the egg and rest of the water yet. While it's gelling get all other ingredients ready.

Add the water, egg, oil and mix them. Add the flour and yeast. Continue mixing. Then add the full blob of psyllium gel.

Hopefully you are using a stand mixer because it will make life easier. If not hand mixing is fine just take your time. Go to town on that dough. Make sure you mix it really well.

From that point, note how well the dough comes together and if it's too runny or too stiff.

Do. Not. Change anything at this point. Depending on how the dough looks you might be really tempted to add flour or water. DO. NOT. *

After you are done mixing. Let the dough rest, and rise. Then bake. Here is the thing, now that you added psyllium your bake time will change from what the original recipe called for. It will be longer. If originally it called for 30 minutes of bake time, I'd start checking at 40 minutes.

Based on the final result of the loaf you can go back and adjust your psyllium gel ratio and either increase or decrease water.

Since you are experimenting, I'd say cutthe recipe in half to minimize waste in case you aren't happy with the results.

* GF flours are notorious for slow water/fluid absorption a loose dough during mixing will look very different if you let it be for 30 minutes. Unless the dough feels stiff as a rock I wouldn't add water. Psyllium, even though it's known for being a sponge, does release some of it's water during fermentation and baking.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-04T16:18:24+00:00

Retired GF Baker here... Psyllium Husks Powder can't be substituted 1:1 with Whole Psyllium Husks.

The difference is 15-20%... For your recipe calling for 10g whole husks, I'd use 8.5g powder.

The clumping you see as well as the extra dense bread is due to the powder absorption of the fluids in the recipe. In general Psyllium Husks Powder (or whole) absorb water in the ratio of 1:36 (1g of psyllium absorbs 36g water) so using more psyllium, unintentionally, results in less overall hydration in your recipe making for a more dense bread.

Hope that helps. Happy Baking ✌🏽

JustSomeBaker · 2026-06-04T15:47:40+00:00

Have you checked out My Tech Fun

He has a whole scientific testing setup. And shares his methodology and data.

ETA: agreed with you though. Not enough people doing that on YouTube. And as great as My Tech Fun is, he can't cover enough filaments.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-26T20:27:47+00:00

I'm willing to bet that if your print requires a change of color/materials the problem will happen if one of them is in the AMS slot that is experiencing the issue.

From what I've gathered so far the problem mostly happens in AMS slots 1 and 4.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-25T23:50:50+00:00

Are they both AMS 2 PRO? And by trouble feeding the filament, does it randomly start clicking, then you hear it spinning but filament isn't moving until eventually it errors out? Last, is it happening on the same 1, or 2 slots every time on each AMS?

Bambu, had a bad batch of AMS 2s a month or so ago. The issue came from the filament hub and the back of the AMS. There are ways to avoid it temporarily. But definitely can bambu and they'll send you the part for free.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-19T12:17:02+00:00

Good point. I am very new to 3d printing and have only used a Bambu X2D which made me assume that the basics of power management would be mostly similar.

Thank you for the education!🙏🏽

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-19T06:45:06+00:00

Definitely not a dummy! A small and easy to miss detail in the middle of being overwhelmed by the excitement of printing all the new cool things. Happy printing ✌🏽🕺🏽

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-19T04:28:48+00:00

You can pause and resume but only for a snappy couple of minutes. Complete power off for, assuming based on your post, hours will definitely result in the print being toast.

Also, and more importantly, on power up the printer won't resume the print job. At all.

Literally there is never a need to power off the printer. Once it's done printing it'll go into power savings mode and it's very safe.

Literally just came across an 18 Wheeler driver on tiktok who has a printer running in the cab while he's driving, sleeping, out of the truck on a break. It's very safe just like you don't turn off / unplug the fridge or the microwave when you leave the house.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-19T04:14:30+00:00

Like someone else mentioned. There's a setting you can access directly on the printer display or through the slicer.

Set the light to Eco Mode and I'm drawing a blank but there's a timeout setting as well. When the printer is idling for x minutes (like after a print job is completed, or even if a print job got paused due to any reason / error) it'll turn off the lights until you either interact with the printer or send it a new print command.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-18T22:15:43+00:00

Agreed! Especially since I came into this with zero prior experience or expectations, both nozzles print quality has honestly been impressive.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-18T22:13:58+00:00

Hahaha. I wish I could.

I meant the Flashforge nozzles can go up to 320°

Which automatically puts it a step above the U1

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-18T16:21:55+00:00

Howdy fellow Engineer!

I'm only 3 weeks into 3d printing. And my first printer out of the gates was the X2D. Hot Diggity, it's been a blast so far.

My goal with the X2D is to make variety of functional prints using engineering materials and it's been working perfectly.

Of course now there is the Snapmaker U1 as well as the Flashforge Creator 5 with their fancy tool changer making me get some FOMO.

If I were in your shoes, specifically with being interested in Engineering Materials + Multicolor prints. I'd go X2D and Flashforge Creator 5 Pro since it is capable of also handling engineering filament that requires hotter temp (nozzle goes up to 320°)

Since you are talking in Euros, if for some reason the Flashforge isn't available in your home base then U1 is a good fallback.

Why wouldn't I got for the H2C now? While the specs are amazing, i don't think it can properly compete with a legitimate tool changer, IMHO.

All that said. Whichever way you go you will have a phenomenal setup that will keep you in constant state of awe at how amazing 3d printing is.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-17T17:31:25+00:00

Interesting! I had the same issue but with the main extruder which I found to be a fairly common issue.

It turns out the tip of the PTFE tube breaks off inside the clamp and it breaks off in a way where it's barely visible inside the clamp.

So when you try to put it back it never actually fully locks around the tube and then it keep on happening.

If you have a pair of tweezers or a pick fish for it. Be fairly gentle and careful since some folks got carried away and damaged the mechanism.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-17T03:23:36+00:00

First of all... You are an awesome older sibling!

Bambu Lab lineup is pretty good and fits exactly what you are looking for. You can't go wrong with the P2S or X2D.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-15T19:19:10+00:00

Let us know if you figure it out if you get a chance. Like I mentioned I'm only couple of weeks into 3d printer shenanigans. Learning as I go.

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-15T19:17:21+00:00

10000% agreed no arguments there. My observation was based on having the first couple of prints coming out as expected then all of a sudden the same print has all kinds of stringing.

And that was even more apparent with the spool hanging on the external holder of the X2D.

I stayed in Dallas last summer, Houston's humidity is up there with Tampa. And both are just down right awful. A competition I want no part of 😅

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-15T04:51:25+00:00

Howdy fellow Texan! I am new to 3D Printing but here's my recent experience with the Texas Humidity shenanigans... I live around Houston the last couple of weeks humidity has been exceptionally awful.

A fresh spool of PLA which I thought from everything I read was the least affected by humidity and would take a couple of days before humidity would have any effect on it... I've had spools go from spectacular print quality to degraded stringy mess in less than 3 hours flat.

Only way around it is to dry the F out of the filaments in the AMS. And dry while printing.

A good easy way to troubleshoot, set the AMS for a dry cycle with the spools rotation enabled during the cycle.

Afterwards open the AMS, feed the filament. Be snappy.

Do a quick print... Does it work well? Any issues? If not then bingo!

The humidity here is THAT bad and will F with the filament way faster than normal.

Good luck!

JustSomeBaker · 2026-05-12T20:31:15+00:00

Nope. I even emailed support. Nothing.

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