How to Clear Broken Filament from the Bambu Lab A1 mini | AMS Lite Filament Hub

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I walk through the troubleshooting steps I took when filament got stuck in my A1 mini. I made some mistakes so that hopefully you don't have to.

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[dosdont]

Bambu should be making these videos for EVERYTHING a customer might have to do and it would likely help reduce the calls to tech support which they clearly can't handle.

[andrea]

OH MY GOD I am so glad I came to youtube. I have been messing with this ALL DAY and absolutely nothing on their website. This fixed my problem. THANK

[miguelalvarenga]

Just like someone commented below, I was ready to unscrew and take apart all the pieces you mentioned but then a decided to do a quick search on Youtube, and I'm glad I did. Thank you for uploading this video and keeping me from turning a simple unclog into a nightmare.

[McTAnGuS]

Just about to take everything apart you did. As a new owner with about 300 hours of printing this video just saved me lots of time and no doubt swearing and sore fingers. Legend !

[skyboy]

Saved me a lot of trouble. Went right to the removal of the one piece and got my filament removed. Thanks!!!!🎉

[flyinlow]

Thanks for tearing yours apart so we don't have to possibly damage ours! Mine jammed on the first print in the AMS. I took the two screws out to pull it out, then saw the ribbon and decided youtube was a better solution than a damaged printer with zero completed prints.

[TravisHowland]

As many others have said, this is exactly the breakdown video I needed. I did end up having to take the splitter apart, but knowing how and what I'm looking at made all the difference in the world, THANK YOU for this in-depth and clear video, it definitely saved me some time!

[NWGR]

Thanks for this. I had a jam there too; I did take the two back screws off though and was luckily able to just push the broken piece through with another piece of filament. It's good to know if I get another jam I won't need to go as far as removing the screws.
Also, as an FYI to anyone who wants to keep one of those hubs on hand as a spare who doesn't click through your link (they should!), it's under the spare parts--> ams lite section of the store, listed as "AMS lite Filament Hub".
Your videos have been very helpful. The next bambu order I make will be with your affiliate link.

[tonyarandasanchez]

This video was amazing and potentially saved me about 3h of looking everywhere and unscrewing everything in order to find the problem, thank you for this! I'm sorry it took your testing to give everyone the info but you can sure be glad you saved many printers!

[defi]

Dude you just saved me from so much unnecessary work thank you so much for posting this! I almost did everything you did

[cyber_sal]

Yes, super helpful - thank you for sharing your experience and in the process - saving a lot of us from some self-inflicted headaches. 😅

[JasonThompson-kj]

Hi, thanks for saving me from making a small problem into a much larger one. As many have said I was also ready to start tearing things apart. Great Video. Jason

[ExarchNZ]

Thank you so much. I had the exact same issue (as well as a clogged hot end), but I could not figure out why I could get any filament into the feeder! This was exactly what I needed to do. I did have to take the top off the hub and remove the divider to get the pieces out. But once I did this worked like a treat.

[frankenjolandatimmermans]

Good job, you're a lifesaver! I just saw a small piece of broken filament slide down the tube into the head. Now how to get that vid came up as one of the first. 3 minutes work (removed 3 small pieces of that same filament) and now it's up and running again!👍👍👍👍

[bkkorner]

Thank you for this video. If I ever get a clog now I know what to do!

[darrelduke]

great video, great info.
i actually took "those 2 screws" out and ended up with not being able to get the ribbon back in the housing. my solution was to use the provided allen wrench and fish the ribbon out the side of the housing in order to pull in back in. i write this so it may help someone in the future.

[Roobotics]

This is excellent info man! As someone who often tears into electronics to repair things, I did the same thing and undid the back 2 screws.. started lifting up and felt the tension of something.. the flatflex. "Oh no I am NOT supposed to be here for servicing.." as I know tearing a flat flex circuit is a great way to ruin ones day, they are stupid fragile. Pulling the top piece only off via that tab area, also makes getting the PTFE tubes out WAY easier(my jammed one was not budging) as you can use more angles on it and press it down against a desk. I think I'm going to design a base that this entire piece keys into, so that tube won't get destroyed.. mine jammed from having PLA just sitting in the tube, pieces cracked then fell in.. 2 pieces fell out from that same filament, I'm guessing inside it all wedges to one area, so 2 filaments there will pretty much always cause a jam to occur.

[jimhyndman]

I had a similar problem and was heading downthe trigger happy route, found your vid just in time, saved me a couple of hours pain, many thanks

[glensmith-orbp]

I keep a few of them filament tubes on hand like you said $6.00 US plus they work great on my P1S in the back splitting my side manual holder. Seen that by one of the other great minds, I just follow and thank you for sharing. I also have the Filament jammer have not used it since this looks like two filaments some how got squeezed into one. I guess the simple spring operation on the spool failed to pull back far enough.

[nufnuf]

We are all alike - did completely same complete disassembly - totally worthless :D What You showed at the end is the best way - im just curious if its "official" way of how to deal with stucks. Thanks a lot for showing this to all of us, poor souls.