Superball Feet for Bambu X1-C

I spent (and wasted) a tenner on the official BambuLabs anti-vibration feet. You get 2 sets for your money (gawd knows why; I've only got one printer), but they were hopeless. They were a poor fit, and kept falling out when I tried to sit the printer onto them - and, if you do manage to get the printer to sit on them, don't even think about moving the printer, they'll just pop straight out! IMHO they were also too soft and flexible, and just a bad design all round.

So I went back to a solution I used on my Ender 3 several years back: Small superballs from the kids' section of my local bargain store. They're about 30mm diameter, so the perfect size for the job, and don't look massive and ungainly like some ball solutions do.

When I first used these balls, I found the different colours had different levels of hardness from one another. From the experience with my Ender 3 I knew the lime green ones had the perfect hardness for my preferences.  So, rather than buy 4 new packs, I took just them off of the E3 - since I'm returning that machine back to stock to give to my son.

Then it was just a case of taking my original design, slimming it down a bit for neatness, and adding the 6 segments to the top so that they were a nice friction fit in the X1-C's baseplate.

You only have to be careful of one thing: If you accidentally drop your printer, it will (according to the blurb on the original packaging for the balls) end up bouncing over the top of the house.

So a nice short one today. I'm out of here, catch you on the rebound!

Category: 3D Printer Accessories