Brilliant Bambu Lab

Hmmmmm... hawing advised my own brother to buy a Bambu about two months ago, i am in a pickle as i still have not told him to cancel it nor did i ask if he did buy it, so i need to make a call.
For now the only viable options remain, depending on budget, Creality stuff, preferably CR versions but they do tend to get in the Prusa price range or more, Prusa, and Creality K1 or K2 or whatever is the latest version of it with multicolor option.
Enders are OK now that Bambu is out, as A1 mini killed them in a single swoop, but resurrection happened!
Prusa are a bit pricey, still, but good quality and open source everything
Creality CR versions are much better, had about 11 of those (3X CR10MAX, 2XCR5Pro, CR30, CR6 two color, CR10S V2, some others and Ender 5 Plus, the only issues ever was Ender 5 clogging several times till i changed the hotend, then modified it and made rally fast and abused the poor thing for several years without a hiccup) but they were quite hefty priced, no idea what the situation is now, and the only one still with me is a CR5PRO modified for high temps and klipperised, in use for several years and had a broken motor cable on it once.
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-200$ Ender
-500$ Prusa or K1
>500$ K2 with or without multicolor
And do double check the K1/K2 situation as i am not sure if the new one was K2 or K1 plus or whatever they decide to call them, not very good at naming things those at Creality.
Of the CR variety, try finding a used CR10S V2 with BL-Touch, not with an inductive sensor, never had a failed print on it, ever, although slow, but it can continue prints on power failure with it's original firmware. If you can find it for 200$, it beats the living s#it out of Enders, and does 300x300x400mm so not small.
CR 5 Pro is also good, but only modified to direct drive and while at it change the hot end to high temp one, put a lid above it and print ABS/HIPS, i would gladly pay 250$ for a well cared one. Be aware that printing PLA with the open door is a must, even PETG, and as is will not be good for ABS/HIPS.
Also be aware that CR 5 PRO is a 32.5KG beast, so not easy to move by one person, at all, i know i moved it several times!

my1987toyota wrote:

oh come on cornholio try angerish . LOL

May I express my feelings via the medium of song, don't listen to the following if you don't like some of Australia's most useful expressions. (3 attempts to get that right)







One of my favorite movie quotes:
Boris 'The Blade' Yurinov: Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it.

well cornholio that is most definitely angerish. Awh crap now that first song is stuck in my head. LOL

tommylight thank you for the recommendations I am glad I wasn't the only one who has gotten caught
with the whole get a Bambu Lab printer only to now feel bad for doing so. Then again we gave the best
recommendations we had at the time with the information available. Fortunately Prusa had to play
catch up because of companies like Bambu Lab. At this point I have no problem telling people to get a
Prusa the higher price tag is worth the freedom it provides. That said I will be looking into your other
recommendations as well especially the CR5 PRO. Heavy usually also means stable.

Official update

blog.bambulab.com/updates-and-third-part...-with-bambu-connect/

interesting read.

Although it's true FUD happens alot. I see it more as they're hoping to walk it back so they don't
loose customers. I was reading through Bambu Lab's forum yesterday and I can tell you their was
a LOT of fallout over this "Beta" update. If this was indeed a huge misunderstanding fine. I apologize
for not seeing it as Bambu Lab intended it to be seen.

  That said I have seen WAY to many companies do the rug pull and close off their entire echo system
in the hopes of gaining more profits. I have seen it with Autodesk, HP, and you know what their are way
too many companies to list. They all love the subscription type of money model. I, like almost every
other human being in this world absolutely HATE the constant monopolistic mindsets and tactics that
have run rampant now of  days.

  So Bambu Lab you didn't mean it that way, OK. But know this, YOU ARE being watched. I am
already switching to Orca Slicer from Bambu studio. I have already set plans in place to build
Vorons for my future printing needs.
And I'm not alone!

PS
I don't think anyone else is buying it either
forum.bambulab.com/t/updates-and-third-p...mbu-connect/137408/3

 

-My main phone is a Nokia 6310i
-Logitech wanted to move to subscription for mice and keyboards and gave up, luckily, i would hate to throw my MX Master 3S and G935 because of their f@ken stupidity and greed, they are really good.
-Netflix started with 9.99$ monthly sub, it was OK, now it's 49.99$ for utter garbage, last time i went to watch something, spent 1 hour 15 minutes searching for something worth watching, found nothing, second time spent 20 minutes found nothing, canceled the damn thing. And this for me was free, my sister was paying for it. Never again, not even for 9.99$.
-i drive a 20 year old car with manual gearbox, two ago i got through exchange a new-ish Passat with everything, even radar distance sensors, traded it for a very good PC and some money as i do NOT want to deal with all the crappy electronics inside it, and it will fail, for sure. And i want drive the car, not the car driving me!
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The list goes on, it never ends, the era of CyberPunk is here for sure, it's just humans need the required glasses to see the hidden messages everywhere, luckily i have glasses
And this seems to far fetched, have a look at Cebol, see Asianometry channel on youtube, South Korea is absolutely run by LG, Samsung and Hyundai, not by presidents and politicians.
Now US is run by Elon Musk ..... bloody hell !!! Friendly advice to US citizens (2 of my brothers included) :
RRRUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN