Biqu’s New Panda Hotend Wizard Helps You Clear Clogged Nozzles Off-Printer
This new accessory lets you recover clogged Bambu Lab hotends without needing to use the printer, but it’s pricey: starting at $139.99.
You can’t help but admire BigTreeTech (and by extension, its brand Biqu) for its hustle. This is a company that has identified the (oddly) underserved niche of anything-that-goes-with-a-Bambu-Lab-3D-printer and is attacking it from every predictable angle, plus plenty of others you wouldn’t even have thought of. Just this last week we reported on a new air-quality monitor from the brand, and now here we are looking at another Panda accessory: the Biqu Panda Hotend Wizard. It’s a standalone device that looks a little like a mini drill press in size and shape, but is simply a frame to securely hold a Bambu Lab hotend, with a power board and connections for you to hook it up and deliver power for it to heat up.
If you’ve used a Bambu Lab 3D printer for an extended period of time, you’ll know that clogs can happen. Dealing with them in the moment is usually the simple matter of switching the clogged hotend out for a fresh one and, if you’re anything like me, putting the clogged nozzle aside as a problem to be dealt with later. When later comes, it’s a pain to actually deal with – loading the clogged nozzle back in and messing with the filament path to try to ram the clog free. It has to be done, and requires you to use the printer to do so.
The Panda Hotend Wizard ships with brackets to fit the majority of Bambu Lab hotends, with the only exception being the H2C’s right nozzle – induction-based Vortek shape. There’s a dial for you to set a target temperature, wait for it to heat, and then take one of the included cleaning needles and get to work pushing the clog through and free.
The Biqu Panda Hotend Wizard requires a 24V power supply. One is included in the pricier $159.99 version. Otherwise, it’s $139.99 without one. It is a particularly specialized piece of kit that we don’t expect the regular user to find value in – for a farm or business looking to save a little on the expense of lost hotends or hotend maintenance over time, maybe there’s something to it.
See more (or get one) on the Biqu webstore.
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