print head

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Final complete day: 2026-10-16. Attention was 0.2% — this entity appeared in 19 of 12,303 analyzed posts/comments in the seven days ending that day (19 mentions).

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Recent mentions

1. 2026-10-15 18:40 UTCComment

   It's okay for a couple of months, but unsealed spools can get brittle after longer than that, especially if they are exposed to several swings in temperature and humidity. You can sometimes rescue brittle filament by running it through the filament dryer and printing immediately after, but I just finished off an old spool where I rescued it, printed for a few hours, and the following morning found that it had snapped apart again right at the print head.

2. 2026-10-15 12:19 UTCComment

   Even if the retraction is controlled well, the movement of the print head at high speed will cause the whole thing to jerk, and that will cause the tall unsupported prints to oscillate. Tall buildings do it too, they have movement-damping weights at the very top. You can't see that on the camera because of the time lapse. Best to slow the print down progressively, and add supports - imagine 4 tall sticks being printed; they'll ask wobble like crazy but stitch them together and the wobble would dampen substantially.

3. 2026-10-15 08:55 UTCComment

   I don't think there should be any ooze when quickly moving the head to position, taking a picture should take a fraction of a second so it's pretty comparable to the print head moving between components

4. 2026-10-15 07:18 UTCComment

   Can't you edit the gcode to have the print head go to a corner before snapping a picture? Why didn't Bambu add this feature instead of printing an extra part? I think I saw videos already of people who did this themselves with not too much effort

5. 2026-10-15 00:39 UTCComment

   You actually lucked out really good here, considering that most blobs of death usually encase the entire print head and render it completely useless.