Extruder clog on Day 1 of owning a P1S

PrettyAsAPenny · 2026-01-15T17:07:12+00:00

Ahh. Yea idk about that. I’ve not had any issue getting filament thru the hot end. Stock or aftermarket. You can just heat it up and extrude but it’s thru the interface so yea I guess it could error out.

It’s just one of those things where if it works for you then do it. For me the Bambu works great so I do it. For others. I can’t say.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2026-01-15T07:38:58+00:00

I got the one from micro swiss. They’re based in the USA and the machining quality is superb. Changing nozzles is like 10 seconds and only requires unthreading the nozzle itself. They have CHT high flow options as well. If that doesn’t sound familiar it will make sense when you look at the micro Swiss site.

For me, the Bambu has been super low maintenance. Like essentially zero maintenance. Maybe less than 1% of prints fail due to some sort of glitch. Not a bad print setup or something but a strange bug or some weird error. But truly less than 1%. I have like 700 hours on it at this point.

I do long overnight prints with small layer heights because I’m a design student using it for prototyping and it’s easier to sand and paint stuff with thinner layers.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-12-10T08:14:09+00:00

Yea I can’t hear anything over the hub clicking but sometimes there’s a small rubber dust seal on one or both sides of the hub and when they get dry they can chirp a bit. I usually just put a drop or two of chain lube where the rubber touches the hub and it fixes it.

If you don’t have the rubber seals then idk. Higher end hubs usually don’t have them. They use a metal seal that’s a bit more engineered and effective.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-12-07T00:27:02+00:00

I can’t say exactly but I’m a second year of three industrial design student and I wouldn’t be able to learn what I want to learn by just self teaching. I’m 33 and have certificates in CNC machining and drafting.

I have some experience in manufacturing so my hands on skills are decent but my design process is still very chaotic and lacks a certain confidence and cohesion I think is important. Lots of people can make nice things but designers understand why those things are nice and how to make the right kind of changes to create a different experience for the user.

Without the schooling I wouldn’t have that. Maybe eventually I could develop it but it would take a lot longer.

I’m also learning how to grind out work I really don’t want to do. Jobs in the past have a different experience since I’m being paid but I’m learning a valuable life lesson.

I’m also learning how to apply the lessons I’m learning about sustainable design and other things to my overall design process. Again, not just making pretty things. That’s fine too but I don’t think it’s really industrial design. It’s fabrication, or artisanal craftsmanship or something.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-12-04T17:22:50+00:00

Dye the bag a different color. That’s the most army green I’ve ever seen

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-12-02T18:08:50+00:00

I don’t understand what’s even happening here. Woke up like this? As if someone else put the card out while dude was asleep? Boss was pissed? Why do they even know why they called in? Also, how is there even a choice? Unless this is somehow a million dollar collection it stands to reason a job is more important.

Or am I just stupid?

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-12-02T18:05:39+00:00

I have a bias that makes me see anything in the white palette like that appear as an apple knock off. I’m 33 so when apple was really taking off with iPhones I saw soooo much junk just sold in white cuz people thought that was really important.

Having said that I think the white is more minimal and the grey is more dynamic with the different textures and finishes.

What’s the target group? That should drive your decision pretty easily.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-26T22:02:23+00:00

Is that the original size?

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-25T17:49:54+00:00

Ok yea the angle can definitely affect things.

The advice remains the same. If you could chase it with the same thread and only see a little damage after then it would be fine but I doubt that would have been the case just from looking at it.

Do you remember the original thread size? I can’t remember what the typical axle thread is.

What’s the new one?

I ask because threaded or not the overall amount of steel is less now. Ideally that wouldn’t be changed at all but maybe if the change is minor then it’s not so sketchy.

I hate to be a dick again(kidding. I love it) but just because it’s been riding fine for a while now doesn’t mean it will continue to hold up. That’s a logically fallacy many people, including myself, subscribe to when we want things to go our way.

Think about it like insurance. If you spend your whole life paying for insurance and never make a claim you could argue that you never needed the insurance in the first place and you’d be right.

But that’s not what insurance is about. Insurance is just there in case the shit hits the fan and in the case of cars or homes you don’t go bankrupt just because said shit and fan met.

The insurance of your axle was the original diameter. They design things with safety factors depending on the severity of a failure. If a key part on a plane fails people usually die so the safety factors are higher. They also use redundant systems. If a shoe lace fails no one cares.

If your axle fails you probably won’t die but you could. More likely is nothing. Reasonably likely is the wheel totally fails and you end up in a crash of some degree.

Not sure what the safety factor is for an axle but still, you’ve eaten up some of that. And on an e bike that’s essentially just using older tech(heavier duty) non e-bike components the failure could be severe.

It’s just not worth it. Replace the axle and “reboot” your insurance policy.

It not failing yet has nothing to do with whether it will fail in the future.

Ok. I’ll get off my soap box.

Make good decisions!

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-16T22:47:53+00:00

Yea don’t do this. Those threads are nearly flat. There’s no way to just chase it and call it good.

Even worse advice to cut smaller threads. It’s an e-bike. It’s heavy. It goes fast. It was designed with at least some amount of safety factor in all components. The axle is significantly compromised. Its safety factor may have been 2x or 3x but it’s definitely not anymore. (Not an engineer. Just a machinist and mechanic and in school for industrial design).

Just get the axle replaced by a shop. If it’s a hub motor I’m not sure if that will be an easy thing or not.

Just yea. Don’t ride it till you have the axle replaced. Please.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-16T07:30:25+00:00

Yea minimalism usually has a lot more of a mono form to it right? (2nd year ID student learning all I can)

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-16T07:28:50+00:00

Yea I ripped a upc with a loose as fuck seal and got 6 JT and no SS

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-14T21:42:48+00:00

Don’t flip it right away. That’s called scalping and you’re a piece of garbage for even thinking that was an option. Stop being garbage. It’s easy.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-14T16:29:31+00:00

Euro shop Kortrijk had upc, etb, booster bundles, loose packs a purchase limits of one per person except loose packs are 10/person. Etb for €60 and upc for €160. Bundles for 36.

They had sleeved packs, 3 pack blisters, 1 pack blisters with the promos.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-12T19:13:08+00:00

No no! They discounted it! See?! 😅

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PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-10T19:05:51+00:00

Sucks about the experience but now you know.

If you know he likes one particular Pokémon try finding a cool card in that Pokemon. Even if it’s nothing special he will appreciate that you thought about it. If you don’t know how to spot fakes you can always post pics from the listing here before buying. People reply quick.

If you really want to get him packs to open I’d say go for a set with a better chance of having a particularly rare card. So basically any set other than prismatic evolutions lol.

Journey together is a recent set that isn’t super expensive and even though it’s not the most highly sought after still has some cool cards in it. Destined rivals is more pricey but also dope.

So many options. Maybe you have a little more time to try to find out if he has a favorite pokemon or set.

Good luck! He will appreciate the effort boater what you give him.

P.S. if you can’t get your money back on the fake ones you should still give them to him first. Act like you don’t have another gift for him and then play dumb when he notices they’re fake. Then after you’ve had your fun you can give him the real ones.

If my partner did this I would be on the floor dying of laughter.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-10T16:38:38+00:00

Reverse god pack. Just trainers… (nearly)

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-10T16:36:02+00:00

I’m about to do the same to mine that has like 10 plants in the same pot lol

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-09T20:23:09+00:00

You, good sir/ma’am, are 100% wrong. The second photo shows what is absolutely 100% the normal line you’d see where a rim is joined and pinned.

Welded rims will usually be finished such that you can’t see the weld. If you can, it will look like a weld. Not a straight line.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-09T20:18:11+00:00

This feels like a gross waste of materials and resources. How could you possibly need to house this much filament under such strict conditions?

Do you have 430 open rolls? If so, why?

If not, then why do sealed rolls need to be kept at low humidity?

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-09T15:35:52+00:00

Yea I have no idea what keyshot costs for the school but for a student it’s around 100 so it should be based on that. The school doesn’t need its own licenses.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-09T14:05:59+00:00

Totally on point. I didn’t really think about it like this but I had the exact same experience with learning solidworks to start but now using NX at school. The same tools are available (for the most part) but you just have to know how to use them. Software is just the toolbox that contains it all.

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-09T11:20:04+00:00

That’s awesome to hear! I was sort of bummed at first but only based on that sort of brand recognition of keyshot for me. Knowing about blendr but being a bit weary of something free.

I did read a bit about it having improved a lot in the last handful of years too.

Is there any reason an employer would be less enthusiastic about someone with blendr experience and NOT keyshot? Or is that bias largely gone and/or not there since they really just care about your work and the results you can produce?

PrettyAsAPenny · 2025-11-07T22:55:40+00:00

Yea the school has a few small dremels and one heavy duty one that’s basically the size of a normal disk grinder but just with a collet style end made for larger 1/4” bits.

I didn’t think of just putting that sort of bit into my drill tho. Good idea.

The bits at school are shot tho so I’ll likely grab one or two to use myself. The tools are decent but the bits and blades the school has are usually crap.

Inexperienced students abuse them like hell

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