BIQU Panda Claw, Extruder Gear Assembly for Bambu-Lab A1/A1 Mini 3D Printers, Golden RNC Nano-Coated Extruder Gear, Smoother and More Even Flow, Longer Service Life

I found the extruder housing in my Bambu Lab X1C had cracked where the hot end attached, and I was seeing problems. So I decided to give this aluminum one a try, and it worked great. Everything was easy to move from the stock housing, and it fit in the printer easily. Great add on to the printer.

These metal replacement gears work perfectly to improve the filament feed mechanism

Installed in p1S and it resolved my worn out extruder and got here in a third of the time bambu would have

I bought this back when it still had four stars on Amazon, and I really wish I’d been able to see the incredibly helpful reviews warning people not to waste their money.I installed this on a Bambu A1 Mini that I purchased back in August. Before installing this, my printer functioned super well, with some slight frustrations here and there but still nowhere near the standard market of printers.As soon as I installed this "drop-in" part (read: not drop in at all) my nozzle clogged due to an extrusion issue and the filament dried, expanded, and broke off my nozzle clip before I could get home from work.Bambu was very gracious and replaced it for free even thought it wasn't covered under warranty, but about two weeks later the same exact thing happened again. I thought I had just installed it wrong, spent a few hours trying to troubleshoot what I had done wrong on the install, not realizing the part itself was the issue. I reverted to the plastic pieces that came with the machine and the only reason I am even spending time writing a review is to hopefully save you the time trying to install this and then - inevitably - having to uninstall it.Save yourself the headache. Just buy some filament and congratulate yourself for not getting duped like I did.

Works like it should. The only problem I have had with it is that if you aren't careful with the screws when reattaching it they can fall into the skeletonized body. If lucky you can pull them out otherwise you have to take it apart again.

This is a great add on!Makes it so much easier to see any jams or clogs unlike the stock one where I spent HOURS trying to find the jam that was in the extruder to nozzle hole and I just didn’t see the black in black.

This may not be much lighter than the stock extruder. It helps with heat dissipation. Looks great and is more ridged. Works perfectly with panda claw … build and fit is top grade.

printing my first benchy with this right now and its coming out great. i dont know why some reviews say this is louder than normal extruder gears, this is just as silent. if yours is making grinding noises you probably didn't put enough grease on the gears.