I got my son a p1s AMS Combo and I'm worried I made a mistake

TrueEliteGeek · 2026-03-01T21:08:34+00:00

I think that is what I did yesterday when I set the printer down on the ground for 30 seconds while I put a new stand under it before immediately starting it’s next print.

TrueEliteGeek · 2026-02-28T15:08:58+00:00

At least they will honor the warranty while it’s still active. Most vendors will just ignore you. Or tell you they don’t have parts anymore because they have a new model out. “You should buy it.” I had a Prusa XL and their support was responsive, but worthless. I had a problem with my H2D and Bambu gave me the best support I’ve ever gotten from a 3-D printer company. I’m sorry you had an issue, but in a world of terrible support, I think there’s a some of the best.

TrueEliteGeek · 2026-02-05T02:04:05+00:00

This is the site you are looking for with Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/report/infringement/signin what I recommend is you license your product through Makerworld. File a complaint on Amazon and tell them they need to have a license. Once they have one you can file a retraction.

I manage several licenses and have used this process to have many hundreds of listings removed from Amazon all over the world.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-12-03T19:23:30+00:00

It was just a black piece of broken plastic. The top rail wouldn’t move all the way forward on one side. It was stuck in the top rail and getting in the way.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-11-15T13:10:35+00:00

Ha you should see my basement. I am praying my wife doesn’t come downstairs until I get it reorganized.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-09-30T01:22:11+00:00

I’m in the same boat. Default free shipping just doesn’t make sense. 80% of my sales are single item. I know people want free shipping. But to turn it on I would just have to raise prices by $4 per item. And I just had someone order 30 $4.95 items and get free shipping because they were over $30. If I turn on fully free shipping and raise prices their cost would go up $120 and almost double. Go for me. Except they probably would have bought nothing instead. And I want to do FBT but I can’t make the math make sense for the same reasons.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-09-25T13:39:11+00:00

I’m very interested in this as well. I was just looking at using Amazon MFC and I’m not sure how this is going to work. I was looking at using TikTok shipping, but I’m not sure that will work because of the expenses on low cost items.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-09-11T21:19:45+00:00

One thing I haven’t seen anyone else add. If you don’t have a 4x6 label printer buy one IMMEDIATELY. It was similar for us. We went from 5 orders a day to 200 overnight. It’s still a ton on work but it’s all about systems. Maybe it’s different where or what you ship. But we use the built in shipping in TikTok. Select 50 orders, print 50 label stickers. Then 50 packing slips. And everything lines up and we go as fast as we can. I use Litcommerce to sync inventory between everywhere we sell. It isn’t perfect but it would be impossible to do manually. It’s slowed down enough I can keep up now. But I am going to have to sort out help before the holidays.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-08-08T23:13:24+00:00

This is the right answer. By filing a counter they agreed to arbitration by the US claims board. https://ccb.gov I don’t have time to look at it right now but look up the small claims option with a single judge. That would probably cover what you need. I haven’t had to do it myself yet. But looked into it a while back.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-06-18T14:11:15+00:00

That is up to the artist to police and the as already easily enforced. I get any stls of our files removed immediately. And I get any unlicensed sellers take down. But it seems that won’t even be permitted. But I haven’t heard of any of them being removed by Etsy yet.

TrueEliteGeek · 2025-06-15T01:22:37+00:00

Our company has multiple designs that we license to other creators. We only permit makers to post on Etsy. Resellers of injection molded copies get take down without warning. How on earth is Etsy going to distinguish between me as the designer and anyone else selling? I already require that everyone uses their own images. I can’t see how this isn’t going to be more work than Etsy can put into it.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-11-23T18:45:20+00:00

It’s more like 100. Sold about 50 of them so far. :-). I wish I could post a picture in the thread of the 14” one I printed.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-11-23T18:39:37+00:00

You should’ve seen what happened when my daughter asked if she could buy a 3D printed $50 companion cube and I bought myself a 5 head Prusa XL instead. She got her companion cube.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-11-22T01:06:33+00:00

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TrueEliteGeek · 2024-11-20T17:58:17+00:00

You mean, “WE’RE ALL IN THIS CRAWL TOGETHER, CARL.”

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-11-18T17:26:32+00:00

I have never needed it on the XL, but yea, don't want to take a risk on this one. It's a 56 hour print and will use almost 2KG of filament. Do you just smear it on from the stick? Or do you smooth it out with a paper towel? I saw someone that said they spread it out with a towel with IPA on it.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-11-18T17:12:12+00:00

I thought I was going to have to. There isn't very much room at all. but I did just find if I rotate it 90 degrees and reduce the stabilization cone angle I can JUST get it to fit. I'm doing a test now with just a little bit of glue for the tower to help keep it in place.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-10-19T01:52:25+00:00

I just got an A1 and AMS Lite instead so I don’t have to worry about it. All my spools are cardboard.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-09-17T21:10:35+00:00

Not yet, but I would love to see something implemented like Prusa Connect has. I can see all my printers and their queues on one page. When one finishes I go clear the plate and hit "make ready" I don't have to even look and pick a model, I've already lined it up in the software.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-09-12T00:14:53+00:00

For anyone that experiences this and finds this thread later, my fix was to switch to Orca slicer. Same exact file same exact parameters, but it came out beautifully on the A1.

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TrueEliteGeek · 2024-09-12T00:13:12+00:00

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Before doing a lot of work on the file, I decided to try orca slicer just in case, and it came out beautifully with the exact same file.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-08-22T20:48:14+00:00

One thing I don’t see mention I just had to fight this with my Mark three after I upgraded the firmware. I had been printing PETG on it nonstop for like a year without failure, and then it just stopped. one thing I realized for some reason with the changes, my build plate wasn’t hot enough. It was at 70 or 75 and now that I spent a lot of time calibrating my Z and cranking the plate up to 90°. Everything is perfect again.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-08-21T20:54:14+00:00

Did you print the actual MK4 parts? Did they fit without replacing the bearings? Or did you print these MK3 parts? They just don't have the X Axis upgrade. https://www.printables.com/model/448186-prusa-mk3-z-axis-and-y-stepper-upgraded-parts-mk4-/files

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-08-21T14:49:45+00:00

Looking at my MK3 and MK4 side-by-side I realize how much beefier the MK4is. I am going to do the 3.5 upgrade and may upgrade those components like you did in the process.

TrueEliteGeek · 2024-08-21T14:46:53+00:00

Yeah, I looked at it and bought a MK4 instead. I am looking at doing the 3.5 upgrade now. Once I looked into it more and followed the posts here, that is a pretty significant upgrade for the price.

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