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You've got to love how the community will even improve closed-source products. That's so great. I'd have thought a simple spacer piece would solve the narrow spool issue. I can see there's some bleed of the black filament in to the red on the layers with the eyes on the Kirby print. Looks like more purge is needed.

Hey Nero, thanks a lot, that was a spot-on review. I'm thankful for the spotlight! :) I had mostly compatibility with (wider) 1 Kg spools in mind at first with early prototypes but expanded compatibilty for ones with a smaller diameter as well before release. Most smaller spools (Taulman PC and most 500 g spools for example) do work but as you correctly covered, 250 g sample spools that are very slim in width catch the front feeder as they are about as wide as the feeder itself so in that case we have to use a workaround with spool adapters. I will post a couple that adds compatibilty with these small 250 g spools and also larger cardboard spools in the next few days, just need to test a little first. Thanks again and have a great weekend.

numbering and labeling is cool, also taking a picture is so so important. The amount of times a picture has saved my ass when reinstalling a wiring harness.

As usual useful content just in time. Going to do this tomorrow on mine. And thanks again for the lid lifter link. Starting to print that now.

Thank you so much for including a link to an open-source MMS alternative at the end of the video! I've gotten to the age with our hobby that my ethos has started to get in the way of enjoying the latest, shiniest things, but multi-material printing has so many applications that it's difficult to ignore the huge advantage that Bambulabs offers by engineering one that works so well with their machines out-of-box. 👍

Thank you for showing all of it. Cuts cut down on the satisfaction.

Great content there Nero!

Between the Vision enclosure and the Hydra, humebeam is designing and iterating like crazy

Let's see whether Bambu is going to improve this out of the box in the future...

Very sweet editing!

This is awesome. Thanks for the info and this video

I am using the spool winder on printables to load filament on Bambu reels (that you can print yourself) and everything works perfect. I realize it is an extra step, but the spools edge ate consistent, wider, and diameter perfect. So, dry box retained and zero issues due to slightly diff diameter spools which can loosen filament a bit on spool. It take under 2 minutes to transfer a spool…another option…

Great review! And FYI.. I know its just a test print but I have found when using darker filament (like black) I need to increase the purge amount (black to any other color loaded in the AMS). This will prevent the bleed through you're seeing around the head on the same level of the eyes.

Love the Kirby music mix during the Kirby print

I'm going to purchase an X1C this week, and this will work perfect for it. I have a lot of filament with cardboard spools, and I might just respool them onto a two piece spool I printed last week.

Awesome - Thank You

Great video! I love my 2.4 and it prints like a dream but after almost 3 weeks of trying to get the ERCF to print reliably(never got past 30-40 swaps without intervention) I ordered an X1C for multi material, hopefully can keep both the voron and the bambu without the gf giving me too hard of a time!

Respooling sounds much easier, plus still maintaining the dry box.

This is why the Community is the BEST all kinds of people from all over the world come together to better the experience for all of us THANKS EVERYONE

I love it when a plan comes together. This is very cool and once I get the cash together I will get my P1S and this will be the first project I tackle. The second project will be finding and liking the Smash button LOL (11:59 -12:01) No worries, we all make slip-ups like that. Keep up the great work!

Hey Nero - awesome video. This mod removes one of my barriers to considering the Bambu products, the inability of using any filament in the AMS. If I decide to expand multi-material / multi color away from my Prusa MK3S+/MMU2S, I'll need to consider the pro/con of the Bambu.

Great design. I think the next evolution in this will be a mod to the top that allows the lid to shut and the desiccant to be used. My RH in the box now is 10%. I don't want to lose that come summer when it gets more humid

“Pobody’s nerfect” 🤣

Dam, Bambu Labs is clearly giving their printers and AMS system to every content creator out there. They are everywhere.

I think if enough people buy Bambu Labs printers and AMS units the filament manufacturers will make their spools AMS compatible, Im holding out for the wrinkles to be ironed out with the X1 Carbon before investing in one though.

For the 250 gram spools, I made a full-size spool with centering cones to clamp aound them. Works like a champ.

@Hume Beam did a really good job. I haven't printed it yet because I don't have small rolls, but it's nice to be able to use them now. Hopefully Bambu will contact Hume Beam to adopt this design for future releases. The design has already been presented on the Bambu forum and Bambu Labs should already know about it. If you have already disassembled the AMS I would also advise to change the PTFE tubes right away for Capricon tubes and adjust the lengths that there are no sharp bends. This is the first thing I did after delivery of my AMS ;-)

It needs a riser section that will raise the lid enough to clear the largest spools. (May be available by now.)

all i care about is if there will be a ercf 2.0 that can use those filament drives etc. would require a filament cutter near the hotend though, so that would be a little bit of a challenge

Pobodies Nerfect. I love it!

Ohh that's a nice video.

Amazing

ONLY BENCHIES!!!!??? XD XD XD XD I love it!!! XD

Great video. Mighty fine beard btw.

Just found your channel, very informative and well made vids! Just a thought, a printed riser, hinged for the AMS to allow all sizes? Cheers from the UK!

I just print spare spools tbh. With a decent spool winder and power tool its trivial to respool to known working spools.

This is awesome! But... I think I'd rather just respool to compatible spools, not sure tho

Hey Nero. Thanks for taking out the time to show how this mod is done! I have a question you can answer. Bambu support has not been very helpful. I purchased a couple of Bambu x1 printers, and one of the printer's AMS units has no working lights. None. I have changed cables still no go. I have opened it up and checked all the wiring. Your video shows that each feeder has a plugin for the main board. I find it hard to believe that every feeder cable going to the board doesn't work because the unit grabs filament and works as it should. I have zero lights. Came that way. Do you have any idea why this might be going on? I doubt its the main board because each feeder has a separate line into the main board. This one really has me scratching my head! I really appreciate any help you can provide.

lol u saved the biggest no way feature to the last. If the box doesn’t close, it’s it no use.

If only we could get this AMS to talk to Klipper

Thanks for the demo! May give it a go. Anyone know where to get the Kirby model?

I also have PLA support filaments, how do I pick the Support filaments when trying to paint?

I wish someone would come out with a larger top hood. Why oh why did not Bambu Labs increase clearances of the clear hood by 10-15% and we would almost never have an issue.

how much of the AMS is buyable in spare parts ? as are we close to fully printed AMS ? that would be interesting if we could do that ?

"Pobody's nerfect." Ok, I have to watch this video now.

I did this to 4) AMS units. 2 of them did not power on afterward. New wires, new circuit boards... Still waiting for the parts. I should have left them alone!

I use all different brands with my AMS and never have issues

loaded up all 4 AMS units.. but I can get the colors to show up on the Bambu lab software.. how do you get all 4 ams units to show up on my laptop when I am trying to pick colors to paint .

Just a heads up for anyone about to print these, don't print these in pla, especially if you mount your ams on top of your printer. After a while mine warped and would not hold the rollers anymore. Just finished reprinting in petg.

Tendies, feed it Tendies.

My slot 3 died after running too much carbon fiber nylon through it. Even tore apart the AMS, replaced the tubes, cleaned it.

Does the delivered V3 model still "need" this Hydra mod?

They definitely designed it to be incompatible with Prusa spools haha

Amazing how much filament will I need to make this

Bought a pig on Amazon with drone delivery, just to watch ;)

So is this mod so it can use larger spools? Seems like a lot to use a slightly bigger spool

Is there a certain size or type of Bowden tubing? Can you provide a link where you get you Bowden Tubing from?

cant you design a lifter to raise the lid and allow the filament to still be enclosed

Ok this is off subject. Can you tell me which motor a/b is x and y. I appreciate it. Thanks and love the videos

Is there a workaround for not buying a AMS?

Do you get extra credit if we watch again ;)

Will this work with the p1s or only the x1? Is it the same AMS?

will gst3d work with this mod

Design a printable lid. It would have to be a screw together but still doable. Edit.. NM I went tothe end lol😂

Has anyone has issues with warranty after doing this mod. Simply because labeling all the components there gonna know someone has been in there I do understand that at this level is more of a now you own it kind of thing but i wasnt sure if Bambu Labs was supporting this mod like they did with the sides of the p1p This kit is available already printed through a few different suppliers so i wasnt sure if they support it would make sense to me for them to either send out or support files that are very nice upgrades simply because as you know it saves the companies millions and people know a days love to customize Everything.

Rewind big spools and print spool adaptors for the others

I'm always astonished at the amount of plastic waste generated by the AM's system and how that is somehow considered acceptable

I would say eliminating the AMS functioning as a dry box is a pretty huge downside.

Is there a way to use the AMS with Vorons?(so basically with Klipper)

the issue with this system is the color flushing is never complete you can see the black fade the red around the eyes and for this reason an idex is a must for multi color prints

This mod would be great, if you could still close the lid...

Do you really need to number it ? Those are just interchangeable rfid readers.

Hmm Im worried that I've bought the wrong thing, if there an entire mod to replace a $500 part it screams theres massive problems. . I dont know if its just me as an Australian, but when i pay for something form a manufacturer, it damn well should work out of the box, and thanks to our warranty laws, it should work for a minimum of 12 months and can actually be expected to last a lot longer than that based on how a company displays, charges and advertises their items. Now what i mean by that is, If a consumer buys lets say a new car, they shouldnt have to pull the car apart to do what it should do well, ie be a car. In this case, its entirely unreasonable for a consumer to have to pull all this apart to fix problems that should have been fixed prior to selling the ams to consumers. How can we tell what version we have of the AMS? Whats the benefit of such a mod? I do like the ability to put smaller and larger spools, but the whole point of the system is to encapsulate the spools within the ams, Ie wouldnt it just be easier to print a spooler so you can for example chuck your 3d printed spool that suits the ams and spool off a bulk reel onto the bambu reel? I dunno maybe im just worried that there has to be these workarounds on a machine thats designed to not have to be tinkered on endlessly.?

How much filament does it take to print this?

Wubby7 to you brother

Shout out to Calvin, i'm a picky eater too.

Make sure u guys tug on your Bowden tube, lol.

for me, Hydra AMS didn't work very well. With it, I cannot close lid with Aurapol PLA 1kg spools, even though it was possible to do it with stock AMS main body. Aurapol spools have 200mm diameter. Therefore I'm going to revert to stock AMS body.

0:24 Pobodies nerfect

Pobody is nerfect?

Only reason for doing this is for the 3djake 250g spools and you say dosnt feed properly 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Pobodys Nerfect indeed

Did he say pobodys nerfect on purpose? 😂

Why not print a new lid?

Pobody Nerfect?

Pobuddies Nerfect

"pobodie's nerfect"??

I’m not sure this is worth it, it’s all fun and games till your AMS break

At no time in the video did you credit the mod maker, humebeam.

Can I print an entire AMS and save 400$ just buying individual components ?

Someone should reverse engineer the connector and produce compatible systems. There probably isn't much to it if it got rid of the (kind of useless) RFID readers and just had motors for moving filaments back and forth through feeders.

3d print a 3d print with a 3d printer to fix a 3d print for a 3d printer 😂😂😂😂😂

pobodys nerfect...

you can't "strip" when you screw into plastic holes. the holes simply deform and skip unless you're printing with a very rigid material.

You say there's really no downside, but I consider the lack of desiccant a pretty big downside. For this reason I just respool the occasional spool that is too large.

Sorry bro I couldn’t like the smash button 😂

The Bambu AMS is the biggest POS ever created. I just joined the class action lawsuit against Bambu because of this. I want my money back.

My AMS is 100% unreliable, I have to manually feed and unfeed. I think I just got a bad one because I've tried everything except this and have yet to order filament direct from Bambu. I re-opened a ticket since they closed my old ticket without even solving it.

maybe you should of said in the first min you cant close the lid and defeat the entire purpose of the AMS.... No down side to your mod? what an opinion and not a fact.... NO. the system DOES NOT work. You cant close the lid. how does that fact, define, "the system works", when the "system" was designed to keep stuff DRY.

Looks like way too much effort. I just respool any oddball spools to standard spool size, using an automatic respooler found on Printables. What the Bambu really needs is a robust and reliable PTFE tube Y splitter to allow feeding from external spools without having to disconnect the AMS. I tried all the printable ones I could find, and tried to make my own too, but all failed at some point.