Thanks Ian. I just got my first printer which is a P1S combo and I learned more in this 11 minute video than the few dozen other videos I’ve watched. I’ve been using the included pla while getting used to the slicer and printing in general. This video gave me the pep talk I needed. Gonna give some fpv prints a try.

So the flexible boat is called a BENDCHY, right? 😊

I had to search out this video, as it's the best guide I could find to printing with TPU. I needed it when I actually began my TPU journey. Prints came out fine and dandy and the splitter works marvelously. Cheers!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS I WAS TOLD I WOULD NEVER GET TO USE TPU EVER AGAIN, YOU SIRE A JEDI MASTER

Ive only just gotten into 3d printing. I have the bambu x1 carbon on the way and am doing all the research i can. I want to hit the ground running when it comes in. Thank you very much for this video as everything ive seen said tpu was a no go for the bambu.

Thanks so much for this video. I was trying to figure out how to set everything up on my own to print TPU 95A HF on my P1S and I was really struggling with Bambu Studio (it's not intuitive). Your video did the trick. Perfect!

Thank you so much. I was prepping to print with TPU and didn't know the setup and this helped 100%

I used your json file preset and got sainsmart tpu and on my x1c its perfect. Just awesome. Thanks for the work you do.

Thank you so much for sharing your settings! I was at my wits end until I came across your vid. Thanks!

Seen a fair few reviews of the P1S but all are using the AMS. Great to see how it works without it. Great job

Thank you for the video! Just got my P1S and I am loving it. I've enjoyed your FPV videos so I'm excited to see your vids about this printer. Thank you for all you do!

Thanks for the video, I just ordered a P1S so looking forward to experimenting with it

Thanks for the video. I thought flexibles are no go for bambu, but you showed us. Now I have decided to go for Bambu, but after Sept. 20. Excellent!!

Excited to try out some TPU tonight on my X1C! Thanks for the video!

very good review for this i have a few friends that were scared to print tpu on there bambu labs printers and i told them just watch and follow this video now there all printing tpu on there p1p's and p1s's

Very Helpful! Thank you for taking the time to create this video.

Thanks for this. I learned the hard way the AMS was not compatible with TPU. Probably should have read the instructions. It didn't reach the spool and I was very lucky to be able to pull it out without it snapping. Lesson learned.

You missed your opportunity to call that print a "Ben(d)chy". Great video!

Thanks a bunch for the tutorial, Ian! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I have a new P1S Combo and am keen to try out TPU. Your video was incredibly useful for detailing the process. Thanks!

Thank you Ian. Fantastic Video and incredibly informative, i have learned a lot watching this. I too recently bought a P1S and im quite new to 3d printing.

Thank you I enjoyed your video even though I’m two months late to it I printed one of those wire connectors just like you and it was horrible so now I went to the one that has the sockets in it and oh my God it’s life-changing. Anyway thanks again no clogs and happy days

Great video! Thanks for your help! Greets from Germany 🇩🇪

Thsnk you! Waiting for my P1S. This is super informative and useful! Keep it up!

Didn’t show the important. what is the speed for TPU printing on bambu?

If you disconnect the PTFE tube connector from the other side you have the small piece of PTFE tube to push straight into 👍🏻

Thanks, this got me started with TPU in my new X1C. 🤘

Thank you! Now I can print correctly with your profile

Thanks this answers a few questions I had for TPU on my X1C

First time TPU user here, this video was very helpful. Ian, thank you very much!

Useful information

working on selling my ender 3 v2,anycubic vyper,and rostock max v4 to get one of these.this video sold me on getting one asap.thank you

Epic, this is exactly what I needed. The Reddit boiz were just calling everyone who thought TPU could be used in the AMS stupid, and not actually offering any useful information 😆

Bravo! I wish that all how-to videos were this thorough and simple! My only question now is speed. When I look at the required speed for my filament, it says no more than 50mm/s but the standard Bambu Studio settings show 200mm/s print speed. I thought that when I told the machine that I was using TPU, it would give me settings usable by TPU. Should I print at the higher speed, or should I use the recommended speeds and top out at 50mm/s? Thanks for a great vide!

How do you release TPU to change to another TPU color? Also what happens when you run out of TPU? The last time I did this the TPU got jammed up in the extrud6snd I had to take it all apart and get it out. Not a pleasant time. Thanks

good video ! On bambulab side, they could really upgrade their software so you don't need those special steps to select the external spool !

Great video. Can't find the setting :(

How do I add the tpu profile

Can you do a video on where to enter the code in bambu studio?

Just ordered the x1, the news about not able to use tpu with ams was a huge bummer. but still think its a good printer.. been running my ender 3pro since launch. trying to convert it to an idex printer, just waiting for parts :)

Yes! Thanks for this video!

The link for the TPU profile is broken. Can you sent us the link for it? Thank you! Great video btw! 😊

Hard tpu or hard carbon tpu work quite good with the ams. Just modify a pla profile for the tpu

Thank you, this was extremely helpful!

Very well done, thank you for the video

Is that the gold dual sided textured plate that came with the printer? And did you not use any glue? I need to print tpu now and im afraid to ruin the build plate

Danke!

I am so happy I found this, great vid, you got my sub

Hi Everyone, sorry I was traveling, the link is here to the TPU Profile - drive.google.com/file/d/11jylQH4w3X0lLyQuIfnqkTdUoYRSsUnA/view?usp=drive_link

Bambu now sells a 4 to 1 adapter like on the A1 for the X1.

TPU 95A should be fine at a fairly slow speed, more flexible stuff will likely be more problematic? I have flexible 65a, 85a and 85a, filaments & for the very soft stuff the extruder tensioner will need to be relaxed as in my experience the softer filaments will just get chewed up in the gears otherwise. I would also not fancy trying to push very flexible filament into/aling the bowden tube, its likely to be hard work.

i had to add much more tweaks on nailing tpu with x1c, its not as simple as described. wost part is supports .it prints OK but supports are pain .. but finally come to good results, also found out bambu studio slices better than cura for enders

Thanks. I have the confidence now to try some 95A on my P1P. You're not from the same milieu as Russell Brand by any chance? You both have the same "let's be perfectly clear here" kind of delivery. As a Yank (not a wank, that's different), it sounds like that's the way English was made to be spoken. It's refreshing to hear.

Very helpful, thankyou.

With the Y the Material PLA feed or change do not work correct anymore. It feeds the Filament forward until the extruder, then after some seconds back, and forward, and back. Until it stops due to the error message. Sometime it works, somtime not. After disassembling the Y it works again normaly.

buy an exacto knife and not use your teeth to open filament bags... with regards DDS. :)

What temperature do you use ? Don´t see it in the profile link, or i must be blind. But i cant get my tpu to stop stringing. Best result seemed at 250 degrees but still has stringing. Have dried it for over 24 hours

New to FDM printing. Where do I input this G-Code in Bambu studio that you provided Ian? Feel like I've looked everywhere 🤦🏻

Soooo helpful thank you !

You REALLY need to use PTF Tube on to allow for the best path for the TPU.. ask me how I know... I had issues with Y adapter also, the inside had a LIP that kept catching the filament. Watching to see what you did.

Thanks for the info and insight. With the Y adapter for the filament in the back, I assume you still have to retract the filament until the tubing is clear? If so, what is the purpose of the adapter? Is it just so you don't have to disconnect the tubing from the AMS every time?

Can you test softer shore hardness than 95A? I've only seen people try 95A. Can you try 55A or Varioshore?

Hi, dont you have to reduce the speed´s ???

Any idea how much the pressure advance value matters for TPU? Just for fun I ran a test, and found I had to run the bowden settings just to start to see a change in the lines. I ended up at .26, an order of magnitude higher than the default. Maybe it doesn't matter at the speeds TPU prints at, so no one ever mentions it. We'll see if my prints improve!

Hi, have you tried the TPU85A?

Thanks for the tip

Thank you Ian!

Could you just add a switch to turn off the drive for one of the filament handler bays? That way you can still do multi filament.

Thanks! This helped a lot!

So I’m a bit too afraid to use it without first buying an active drybox for the spool - my filament is stored in a dryboxthat’s a big enclosed industrial cabinet and I might consider drilling a hole in it though.

Great tutorial! thx

Keep up the good work mate, you got a sub!

Bummer seems like you cant use pla for supports... would need a dual head like the snapmakers

BRAVO......THANKS

Fantástico video. Gracias

you helped me, so thanks:)

thank you

Have you printed 85A from the external spool holder?

tpu profile link broken?

I did not even get it to load the tpu lol I’ll watch tomorrow and see.

I've tried to simply remove the PTFE tube and leave the AMS attached but in the BambuStudio it gave me the run around until I unplugged it. I'm not sure if there was a setting I missed but I hope to figure it out because that is an annoying part.

Thanks for the Video, how do you add the TPU settings to the machine though?

Thank you!

no radiomaster pocket review or has your unit not arrived ? Usually radiomaster is your thing so I had looked for it especially since you are always looking for radio in that form factor. I wonder if that could be our next compact beginners radio for all the kids in the next summer camp cause we have to exchange a whole fleet of these, the 12 we had once. It is an affordable compact one to get all you need to start.

What about a video printing tpu with a a1 mini with temp and speed settings etc

@Mads Tech, so if i understand good, with Y mod i can load in the sllicer external TPU and multicolor PLA on AMS, can i print combined TPU/PLA in the same process switching PLA colors fused on top of TPU?

Says "It's this easy!" ( but video is 10 minutes of explanation.. ) :P haha

very helpful thank you

Wlle this I knew already. Thought you found a way tu print TPU using AMS.....

I know that you mentioned you were using an old roll of TPU and that old roll had most likely absorbed a bit of moisture while sitting in storage but, does this mean that a roll of TPU in pristine printing condition would give one a cleaner surface finish than those shown in the models you printed in this video? Those were some pretty rough finishes.

I want to be able to have multi material printing capabilities so I plan on selling my ender 3 v2 neo to get the p1s. I would get the A1 since its much cheaper but I dont feel like having to get my own enclosure or anything.

Do I need a different build plate than my stock one? Mine only says PLA-ABS-PETG

Another great video. Thanks

Nice vid. Ian, or chat, do you have any recommendations for a 3d printer like the P1S but with dual extruder?

i have latest version of both orca slizer and bambu studio, but TPU option as filament does not exist. neither generic nor bambu. The rest exist.

I was expecting to be able to use it with the print option but that only supports the AMS materials... Why isn't color 0 the filament on the aux hub hanger? Second, can an AMS hub be used without a second AMS to feed alternative filaments like TPU and CF filaments?

So I’ve tried the 3D printed y splitters and I’m fed up, I’m buying the 4-in-1 adapter from Bambu, it’s only $5

Thanks for the vid, it really helped me... BUT, I have tried a few different TPU brands in my P1P with no AMS and many brands would not even feed through the feed gears or hot end.. they just appeared to get tangled round the feed gears, which was a right royal pain in the rear to get access to and unclog. indeed I ended up just buying a new hot end as even after clearing the clog in the gears I could not get any other material to feed through the hot end. I did alter the feed spring too to no joy..... Eyeron is the only non bambu brand I have actually been able to feed through the Bambu lab P1P... PS I usually use Overture TPU on my other printers, ( Elegoo Neptune 2s) just fine... Any thought or advise? Thanks in advance Ian FuriousRC

I just seen a clip where someone tricked the printer to think the TPU was PLA but they changed all the filament setting to TPU and were able to use the AMS

Ive used flexibles with one of my ams... i heavily modified it though. Been considering making some youtube videos because i also am starting to reverse engineer the ams and want to make a custom one by using an arduino to intercept the pins from the printer and trick the printer into making it think my ercf with 8 materials is 2 ams. Wondering if anyone has tried it yet