The Ultimate Hotend Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For | Mako for Bambu Lab Installation
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- Get ready to upgrade your Bambu Lab 3D printer with the Mako Hotend 🦈! This step-by-step installation guide will show you everything you need to know, from unboxing to setup, ensuring a smooth and easy process. Learn how to remove your existing hotend and install the Mako Hotend for unmatched performance, versatility, and durability.
Compatible with the Bambu Lab X1 and P1 series, the Mako Hotend is designed to reduce downtime with quick nozzle changes and enhanced print quality. Pre-order your Mako Hotend today! ⬇️
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00:00 Intro
01:13 Mako for Bambu Lab
03:17 Tools Required
03:37 Removing Stock Hotend
04:27 Preparing Mako
06:15 Installing Mako
07:00 Outro - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Thank you for all the feedback and questions! We want to clarify a few points:
Downtime Explanation: While the video shows the physical swap of the hotend taking just a couple of minutes, the 15-20 minute estimate accounts for the entire process, including swapping heater, sensor, fan, and the cooling and heating cycle - basically going from a printing hotend to another printing hotend of another size, aka downtime. The intent of Mako is that you won’t ever have to do that again, since swapping a nozzle is so much easier and doesn’t cause wear and tear on the fragile heater and sensor cables. Speaking of nozzles…
One-Handed Nozzle Swap: We hear you! A demo video showcasing the one-handed nozzle swap feature is coming very soon. Major oversight on our part not to include that in this video. Stay tuned!
Flowrate Numbers: We're in the final stages of flowrate testing for various materials. Detailed results will be released shortly along with material-specific profiles. We appreciate your patience as we finalize a full set of profiles.
Installation Clarification: This video's “Preparing Mako” section features installing Mako with the electronics that came with your printer, which requires additional steps vs. the preinstalled version. Mako can also be purchased with electronics pre-installed.
Slice is known for producing industrial products that last for thousands of hours. Mako is an opportunity to take advantage of that expertise and have a hotend designed to outlast your printer in addition to the flexibility of having application-specific nozzles.
"The Ultimate Hotend Upgrade You’ve Been Waiting For"
Takes literally 1 min on the video to remove the stock nozzle. 1 min to reverse and install another one. Where does 15-20 minutes comes from?
Also, the hotend we've been waiting for, doesn't even show quick swap of the nozzles or flowrate results...
So, please remind me, why should I pay over a $100 for?
Marketing bullshit. Gives the impression of a shady company with zero morals.
You guys consistently miss the mark with every product video, it's a real shame. You guys used to do real nice stuff 4-5 years ago. Now you're way off course and out of touch with your customer base with a big corporate feel. Why are you not upfront showing the flow rate with print tests instead of a bunch of obvious install steps? This is all customers care about not your sales speach.
This seems an over priced addition with little to no benefit apart from screwing in a seperate nozzle which was already invented months ago by Chinese sellers for peanuts... $125+ usd is insane for the same product and performance...
15-20mins for a hot end swap?? I've been doing it wrong... It likes like 1 min tops. Even building a complete hotend is max 10mins.
Yeah they must be doing it super slowly lol
Same here. I always have a full spare hotend and can honor printing in a Minute. Then I can still care about the old one.
Or just make a quick cold pull and that’s it
that looks great and all but it would have been nice if u showed the quick swap between nozzles
was wondeeing about that too🤔
You are absolutely correct. Facepalm moment over here. We'll have a demo showing the quick swap posted soon.
@@SliceEngineering great! looking forward to it
why didn't you demonstrate switching a nozzle with one hand?
You're right! Major oversight on our end. We'll have a demo video showing that soon.
@@SliceEngineering Looking forward to it. Love the idea and hope to own one someday soon.
Wow, even if I drank a lot of beer, it wouldn’t take that long to replace a hot hand
I can't wait! The only thing I'm upset about is having to wait until mid August. Increased performance and super simple swapping between different size nozzles. If you don't care about removing screws, disconnecting / reconnecting cables or even swapping the fan and thermistor then maybe this isn't for you. If you're like me and want a simple and fast way to switch between different size or manufacturer nozzles then this seems like an awesome option.
Simple and fast, exactly! We are building as fast as we can, and can't wait to get Mako out there!
@@SliceEngineeringordered with a complete set of nozzles. Can't wait!
130 dollars where 2 weeks ago, I paid 29 dollars for a full assembley from Bambu...
Looks easy!
An entire hotend assembly swap takes less than 3 minutes.
Exactly! Increasing volumetric flow is the best way moving forward! Smart move and looks like an amazing product!
My Panda Revo takes SECONDS to swap out. And I can use those same nozzles on my Voron. Yah, it would be a good idea to show a nozzle swap.
Any chance of seeing One Handed nozzle change in action
That is a great idea!
@@SliceEngineering Not just a great idea, but basically a selling point of the product, right?
I am happy with my original Hotends !!!!!!!
And how do you swap nozzles? What is the difference with the stock hotend?
Wow tough crowd. Interesting product, would like to see test results and actual nozzle swap though. 15 min swap time for oem nozzle is a bit steep, but that's obviously based on if you need to do a full swap of the fan and thermistor. I do wish bambu had this nozzle only swap ability though. It's a steep price, but if quailty remains and results are close to 60 percent speed increase that's a considerable upgrade.
Need to see the nozzle swap process. Since Bambu leaves filament in the hot block, how can you change without it not bottoming out improperly? Any plastic affecting the seal is a disaster in the making, right?
Thank you for the suggestion!!
Not just left behind, but if you have the AMS, it's cutting it off to where it's hard to get the remnants out.
@@See-essEll it would be a 30 minute exercise to pull that piece out unless it comes out with the nozzle. That was the piece I was concerned about. And what if untwisting the nozzle breaks that piece of filament, how does the new nozzle seat correctly. I'm sure they have researched all this, but I want some explanations on how this works. This kink of thing was always a problem on my old printer, and zero with stock Bambu nozzle.
Wait Consumers still buy Slice products?
Especially when they make a claim of,
"This product will allow you complete a print *up to 60% faster" I'm going to say that's some extreme propaganda.
I feel like I am trying to be sold a used car here... Maybe in Vase mode and even then I am still going to doubt the 60%
Yep! Turns out making 3D printing more reliable for consumers and businesses keeps you in business!
If you like to read we'll have a white paper out soon showing the flow rate testing protocol and results.
Very excited to compare this to the E3D nozzle.
It's like you love getting ripped off
How did we come so far and then engineer backwards? I used to have the stock bambu x1c hotend. Took like 2 minutes for me to change but not 20 lol. Concern was always the plugging and unplugging the connectors and limited nozzle size availability from bambu. I upgraded to the E3D Panda revo. Which unlike you guys, actually showed how to remove the nozzles. Comes assembled out of the box by the way, so true plug and play. Now I have 8 different nozzle sizes including 1.4mm; obxidian, diamond backs, High Flow those are all available too. not worried about snapping of a connector any more. Lefty loosey righty tighty all with your fingers, no wrenches needed, dont need to remove the sock. No heatcreep, i print PLA with doors closed and 55c bed temp. And as a bonus, the aluminum heatsink is blue anodized instead of being left bare like this one lol
I managed to dislodge the JST connector on my X1C accessory board whilst swapping nozzle. So this replacement sounds like a really great idea. Mind you, at $124, i might just risk the jst connector. That's a rather high price.
This is cool, but I still like the REVO hotend version.
Credibility 0. 15 minutes to swap a nozzle? Nope.
I've tried all the aftermarket hotends with the interchangeable nozzles and they suck. It took longer to change one of them and risk damage to the print head than just swapping out a Bambu one. 1 minutes max, 5 minutes if you need to swap over the electronics
Missed the mark on this one chief, where’s the a1 hotends and why is this being sold for $100 starting, what makes it worth that outrageous price without even having a diamond or ruby tip option?
The A1 uses a different hotend geometry, unfortunately. There is a diamond tip nozzle from Diamondback available for purchase on Amazon now!
Anything coming up for the SV08?
I can switch the bambu hot end with nozzle with 2 screws and 2 plugs. This seems overly complicated. Am I missing seething?
Which nozzle type do I get if I just print with PLA and PeTG?
We recommend the GammaMaster!
Will there be a Mako Hotend upgrade for the QiDi Q1 Pro?
If we get enough requests!
No, im not sick of it all.
What’s the max volumetric flow with ABS? I’m very interested in ditching my E3D Bambu hotend.
They won't tell you...
@@jamesm3268 yep. I asked on twitter too
whats wrong with the original bambu Lab hotend?
Good work but too expensive
2:38 "We like choices over here"
Not community / open source choices though :)
Its an open source nozzle...
Nice, so you can use M6 bondtech reprap nozzles with this hotend?
You will need to use FIN (Free and open-source Insulated Nozzle) for Mako!
@@SliceEngineering Ok , going to need add some to my order. Are the FIN nozzles available on your website to order?
@@SliceEngineering I do not see the FIN CHT nozzles to pre-order
@@chrisc9213 currently we only have them available in our hotend kit, we aren't sure yet when Bondtech will make the CHT FIN Standard available!
@@SliceEngineering I see you also work with DiamondBack (Championx), so will be a DiamondBack nozzle with the FIN Standard available in the near future?
Any UK distribution stores?
We do have some resellers in the UK! Definitely reach out to our friendly support team and we can help you locate a good source.
That sounds great, but really would be a game changer if the nozzle diameter would be variable. That's where you should focus your dev. Honestly, I will spend the 20 minutes changing the nozzle rather than pay for $100 of something that won't give me new features. Hope you can come with better innovations.
Way too expensive for something I already got from aliexpress for less than a third of the price.
Ooh, AliExpress - known for reliability!
You'll go far replying to the community in this way, well done.
It looks cool but I’ll pass. 120 dollars for a nozzle is crazy. Also it takes like 2 minutes for a nozzle swap. Can you quantify the 15 minutes?
It is not the nozzle it is the entire hotend, I paid 24 Euro for the GammaMaster FIN nozzle
You should have shown a nozzle swap. But still - quite exicting.
You're right! We are working on a video showing just that. Major oversight on our end.
Where is the nozzel swap. What a nonsense video and over priced junk.
Why would you just not make it v6 compatible?
Traditionally, FDM nozzles have always been developed for ease of manufacturing, not thermodynamic efficiency. FIN is the first time a nozzle has been designed for optimal insulation to prevent cooling of the tip. The standard is open source and we've done something completely unprecedented in the industry by collaborating with other nozzle manufacturers to make a large variety of nozzle types available at launch.
$100 LOL i just use the cheap 30$ ones, have yet to have a problem
120 for a nozzle, you are out of your mind, no nozzle should be priced like that
You do not belong to the target group
@@Frost-zy4nz ahh yes people willing to overpay for less then $2 worth of metal that doesnt do any better then most $15 CHT nozzles, stop giving companies reason to over charge for no real reason, the target group is who ever they can manipulate using skewed numbers to bait in people who buy into this shit
@@Frost-zy4nz it's just another over priced product that does no better then then $20 options. No quick swap, don't show flow rates(probably because they have not desided how to fudge the numbers in their favor) the target audience is who they can pull a fast one on
When a video is so poorly thought out it makes me think the product probably is as well. Add in the high price and I'm out. No tests? No one handed nozzle swap? No visual justification why I should buy this over the much cheaper Chinese versions?
I don't understand the need or the sell here. Honestly, this is just for folks who want to use more standard nozzles. It doesn't realistically save time, because a whole nozzle hotend Bambu assembly change is just the two screws. Changing a nozzle requires heating up and tightening. That could also lead to leaking, over tightening and stripping etc. It's kind of a step backwards just to be able to use other brands of standard nozzles. A bit of a miss here on the marketing, although it is a useful adapter
It takes me less than 2 minutes... Maybe 1 minute.
I've heard Slice patents open source designs and then sues companies using those same said open source designs....shady
hard to believe paying 9x more money for something that won't be 9x faster
This is bad math. Let's run through a theoretical example. Let's say you run a print farm and this even just 10% faster. Let's say the prints you make generate $30 per profit in a 24 hour period (probably pretty conservative if you have a good customer base). Assuming your printer is running at max capacity, this means you can now generate 10% more profit by churning out 10% more prints. So now you're making $33 per day in profit or $3 more per day. At a $100 cost, this is a payback period of 33.33 days. Extrapolated over a year with these assumptions, you could make nearly $1000 in extra profit. If it's 20% faster, your payback is even shorter and potentially yearly profit increase is over $2k.
Obviously this is an over simplified example, but your math and logic is way worse.
Is it more expensive than most nozzles/hot ends? Yes, but even small increases in output add up a lot over time. This increased output does need to be proven by Slice, but my discussion is assuming it is faster.
@@jonners710 Mr. Mathematician, instead of waiting 2 years to make 2000 dollars more, I better put 2000 in two more bamboos.
@@3DHRFARM if you have the capital up front, yes that may be a valid strategy.
If you're limited on space? You want every bit of performance from each printer.
My main point was saying that it doesn't have to be 9x faster to be a good financial decision.
Heckin yeesss 💪 🇺🇸 😎
Prices are an absolute Joke. Your claims are bullshit. This has been available from other suppliers for well over a year for a tiny fraction of your price.
The only reason I watched the video was TO SEE HOW THE ONE-HANDED NOZZLE SWAP WORKS! Just about anyone who has used a Bambu Lab machine enough to want this upgrade already knows how to do everything you DID show. If your video was this much of a waste of time to view, will your product be as much of a waste of time????
Stay away from
What a terrible demonstration video.