3D Printing Bambu A1 Recall

[Banzai88]

Not sure if anyonehas heard this yet, but it was posted in another forum that I frequent.

Apparently Bambu is recalling all full sized A1 units due to an extreme chance of fire caused by a faulty cable.

If you purchased directly from Bambu you should go to their announcement and initiate a support ticket, if you purchased from Micro Center you should return it for a full refund.

Hopefully this either doesn't affect you, or saves you from having any problems.

 

[cwbullet]

Yup. I am not sure which cable it is, but reportedly it is difficult to replace and Bambu is just recalling them.

 

[cwbullet]

I could not find it earlier or last night.

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-pri...rs-as-micro-center-pulls-product-from-shelves

 

[cwbullet]

Here are some photos:

 

[frogglicker]

There was an update posted today

 

[cwbullet]

There was an update posted today

Thanks for positing this.

"At the time of publishing this blog post, we have found that less than 0.1% of all the A1 printers sold have electrical malfunctioning problems related to heatbed cable suffering from damage reported to us."

100% recall and stop using your printer immediately, does not sound like 0.1%.

 

[frogglicker]

An expensive reaction or not the whole story? Probably both.

 

[Cape Byron]

100% recall and stop using your printer immediately, does not sound like 0.1%.

Sounds like a responsible manufacturer to me. The kind we don’t see anywhere enough of.

 

[cwbullet]

Sounds like a responsible manufacturer to me. The kind we don’t see anywhere enough of.

I agree. I trust Bambu and Prusa (mostly) because they both do the same thing - they fix it.

 

[Conway Stevens]

Sounds like a responsible manufacturer to me. The kind we don’t see anywhere enough of.

Exactly this. Be it 0.1% or 100%. Its impossible to determine what units would be ok and what ones wont. So... best approach is treat them all as if they would have an issue

 

[OverTheTop]

What Conway said. If there is a fault that will result in fires or injury and there is no other way to determine affected units a recall is the only option. It sucks for the company but they are doing the right thing.