CANDY CHAIN ( for A1 & A1 mini to AMS-lite )

This is a four point clip on articulating drag chain that helps manage your four bowden tubes between your AMS-lite and your tool head on A1 & A1 mini. you can color it with typical holiday colors and it resembles typical holiday candy cane. 

you can string your favorite filament through some PTFE tubes and hang this as a decoration too.

its only few grams, try it. you will love it.

+ Works great with A1 FREE FLOAT WIRE KIT

I did not have red or green on hand for the profile pictures, but you can choose your own colors in Bambu Handy App, and in Bambu studio if you print from PC. Please post a picture of your red or green ones too if you make them with interesting colors that would be great to see also! Thank you.

 

Boost MeI actually don't have an A1 yet, but I really really want one so please give me a boost to help me get one if you like and use this model. thank you!

Each link connects to the next by ball and socket snaps. if you have an AMS-lite I recommend the 2 color print profiles that way you can use white as the base color and any color you choose for the outside. this is especially good if you have white or clear 4mm tubes that guide your filament because the base color bleeds through, so white as a base color helps keep all your colors bright, even if your outer color is black, your white tubes will still be brighter with the white color as your base color in the center of the clips.

Note: you do not have to twist your 4mm PTFE tubes into a spiral at all if you don't want to, and it is still a very cool and free flowing drag chain. but if you do want that fast twist rate like in the pictures you have to put all of your clips on all four tubes and twist them by hand very hard to force the PTFE tubes to take the new shape, after you have done that you will have all of your clips spiral and the tubes will be relaxed in a spiral and the drag chain will still be as freely articulating as they are when they are all strait. and from what I can tell pushing filament through a spiral tube is not a problem. 
  

Enjoy!

Also Please post a picture of your machine with your CANDY CHAIN drag chain. I would love to see it!


(NOTE: You must have a clean build plate probably with glue because these models have very small first layers. and you must have your filament dry, a lot of people think they are sure their filament is dry, and then they have stringing and layer adhesion problems which means the filament is NOT dry. filament for this print needs to be below 20% RH and should have been dried for 10 hours down to 10-12% RH to make sure it is dry to the core, because just a few layers into a spool can hold several grams of water still if you don't dry your filament. if you are having strength problems with your brand of filament [ looking at you JAYO brand matte PLA ] you can re slice this model globally to have more wall loops, in fill or even print solid, but this will make it tak almost twice as long to print and be excessively strong and hard to put together, to the point that the links might bind a little before getting broken in from use. up to you though. )

( A NOTE ABOUT PRINT PROFILE RATING: Print Profiles and model design are not the same thing. when you rate a print profile you are not awarding points to the model size, shape, or merit of the design functionality of the model itself. the print profile is only about things like layer thickness position on build plate, Filament material type, speed, adaptive layering for smoothing top parts of soft radius to eliminate the appearance of steps for example. the number of top or bottom layers, the print pattern of top or bottom layers, the number of wall loops on first and last layer, the number of walls through out the print. the % of infill, the pattern of infill, how well it handles over hangs or bridging etc. does the print fail or finish not counting users who don't correctly understand the importance of drying their hygroscopic filament, leveling their machines bed, keeping the nozzle clean, or if you have finger oil all over the build area that prevents first layer adhesion. also if you are not a creator who has put a lot of hard work and hours of prototype design revisions to perfect a lean design you might not be aware that maker world only awards points to print profiles of models that maintain 4.0 stars or more. also if for some reason your print hangs up and your system does not permit you to give more than a 3 star rating as does happen to some people from time to time, please just don't give a rating at all. all it does is hurt creators which i presume is probably not your intention. thank you.)