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Bondtech Exhibits At 3D Meetup Sweden 2020

Posted on December 19, 2019January 21, 2023 by Nuno Santiago

19
Dec

3D Meetup Sweden 2020 is first show of the year for Bondtech

Next 14th and 15th of March Bondtech will be exhibiting at 3D Meetup Sweden 2020, a show that has its venue at Tryckeriet, Vasatorpsvägen 1B in Helsingborg, Sweden.

During the show, Bondtech will exhibit the current product line-up, along with working prototypes of the next generation extrusion system, and new offers in the high performance nozzle and hotend fields.

Come and visit us and have a first look to how Dual Drive technology will evolve and how much increased value it will achieve for the user.

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The knockoffs, the clones and the copycats

Posted on December 10, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

10
Dec

Questions are popping in people’s minds

We have received in the last weeks many questions that seek for explanation regarding the BMG clones and look-a-likes in the market. This post is aimed to give answers to everyone at once.

The Knockoffs

All Bondtech Extruders and Extrusion Upgrade Kits are manufactured in Sweden at Bondtech facilities in Värnamo.

We have no licensing agreement with any other company, in Sweden or elsewhere, that allows them to manufacture and sell Bondtech products.

If you see a Bondtech extruder being sold outside our website and Sales Partners network, almost surely is a counterfeit product. A knockoff.

Laws are different everywhere but in general, selling or knowingly buying counterfeit products is illegal. We will not pursue people buying knockoffs but the same cannot be said about sellers.

The Clones

In the beginning we had to chase some shady manufacturers selling counterfeit Bondtech extruders. Later they corrected their stance and rebranded their products, while keeping the same build and visual appearance.

Although they are called clones, in fact those are not exact replicas of our extruders. There are some small differences, big enough to result in lower reliability and performance.

We believe it comes without saying that we do not give Customer Support to people buying extruder clones. That support should be asked to whom sold the product.

The Copycats

The Dual Drive extrusion system from Bondtech was a great idea, and still is. Imitation flooded in waves. After the stage of knockoffs, came the war of the clones. Now we are facing the battle of the copycats.

Rather than creating something new to benefit the users, the copycat takes someone else’s idea, and presents it in a different package.

Metallurgy as a technology has more than 6000 years and keeps evolving. FDM was officially born in 1989. One can say filament 3D printing is still a newborn technology. For that reason there is so much to create anew, to innovate on. Hard to understand the waste of time and resources it is, to just copy.

So what is the real difference?

Bondtech BMGx2 Dual Extruder CC 20.00

Our products are not for everyone only because there is a price to pay as effect of the way we manufacture. Not everyone can pay for it, and we understand that. We cannot fault anyone for buying a copy when our price exceeds their budget.

We also feel some sympathy for the workers that are paid crumbles per unit and feel the urge to rush and make as many units per day as possible, so they can make ends meet. Although that certainly lowers the price of a product, it has big implications on the non quality ratio and it creates a game of chance for the customer.

At Bondtech we don’t rush production, and all our units are reviewed or tested. This takes time but lowers our non quality rate to about 0,25%. This means that statistically only 1 out of 400 Bondtech extruders will show a manufacture defect.

For most industries an acceptable rate of defects is to match the Sigma 3 standard, meeting 93.3% accuracy. This translates into nearly 27 out of 400 units being defective is acceptable. Rushed workers will fail even more. No good odds indeed.
At Bondtech these… odds, are unacceptable. We surpass by far the Sigma 4 standard of 99.4% accuracy. It takes a lot of work to make our customers that lucky.

Our price is also much influenced by the cost of the SLS 3D printing process. It highly increases the cost on all our products using SLS. Nevertheless, the black dyed PA12 parts made our brand building style. The parts are extremely light, robust and also heat resistant up to 100º Celsius.

We cannot stress too much when we mention Customer Support also factors into our costs. The dedication of the team, including Bondtech’s founder, is unique. Much time is spent helping customers to solve their issues, on and off the clock, most of the times without direct connection with the extruders themselves.

The last difference in this equation is innovation. We invest resources in technology and innovation, as we are investing now, in the pursuit of creating something new. A step forward that will bring added value to our customers and community, but also added trust to people’s believe in additive manufacturing as a production technology.

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Do you speak Swedish?

Thanks so much!

Posted on December 6, 2019December 8, 2019 by Nuno Santiago

06
Dec

Thanksgiving was some days ago, and Christmas is some days away, it only seems appropriate we address a very important expression these days. How to give thanks.

Tack så mycket is also a very popular expression in Sweden. Like in any other culture where people respect each other, giving thanks for a gift or good action is very common.

The key word tack is often used as a reply to thanks, said twice. If someone thanks you ( by saying tack or tack så mycket), you can reply tack tack as if you are thanking the thanks.

Tack så mycket!

Tack

Tack is a word you will hear a lot in Sweden,

Thanks so much!

Thanks

frequently said twice in a row. Tack Tack.

så

This word can be used in so many ways.

Here it conveys a way and a comparison.

mycket

Mycket can be used as an adjective or an adverb

much

and can replace much or a lot.

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NEWS

New Bondtech Product: SLS X-Carriage

Posted on December 4, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

04
Dec

Prusa i3 MK3S users can now print inside enclosed chamber at higher temperatures

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Bondtech just launched a new version of the X-Carriage Kit to be used with the Upgrade Kit for Prusa i3 MK3S. This new version is made the same way as our extruder housing parts.

Made with SLS, using white Polyamide 12 as build material, the plastic parts of this kit are then sand blasted for cleaning and polishing and dyed in black to give them that Bondtech look.

This build option enables users to use their Prusas inside enclosed chambers and to reach working temperatures up to 100°C.

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NEWS

Bondtech Customer eXperience month

Posted on December 3, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

03
Dec

We celebrate November’s success

November was Bondtech Customer eXperience month and we made many small but relevant changes aimed to improvekey aspects of how our community uses our channels and products.

The “Greener Logistics” theme was discussed and we are still looking for ways to improve on that, but no concrete measures were achieved yet. We also worked on the “New Product Packaging” and reached a green and sustainable concept that we are now sourcing.

We worked mostly, and came a long way on the “Website Navigation & UI”, “Guiding Content”, and “Support Communication”. November was also when we put “Focus on BCX” while developing new products. We still have our DDS for CR-10S Pro under development, but wegot the opportunity to enhance our DDS for CR-10S with improvements that will make this Direct Drive Extruder even better.

Overall it was a excellent month with many improvements that we now celebrate. BCX does not stop now that November is finished. We keep on looking for what to improve, something we also ask you to give us feedback on.

Check Below The Actions Taken To Improve Bondtech Customer eXperience

Website Navigation & UI

The option “Step By Step Guides” was added to the top menu to allow access from every page in the website.

The option “Hotends” was added to the main menu to allow access to the Hotend related products from every page in the website.

Harder to miss now is the tab “STEP BY STEP GUIDES” visible in product pages, and now placed in second position.

The “Description” tab is closed by default and “Additional information” is not showing, in the product pages.

A submenu was added to the sidebar product menu, now featuring Slice Engineering product categories.

On the product pages, an “Add To Cart” button was added for each complementary product you may need. making it easier to buy bundles with less clicks.

The product page images gallery is now spread in a grid distribution to be easier to access all pictures without clicking to scroll.

At the bottom of every Knowledge Base page, just above the page footer, there are navigation links to the other Knowledge Base pages.

The option “Firmware & More” was added to the top menu to allow access to the Knowledge Base Library from every page in the website.

Guiding Content

The article “Simple Measures To Prevent 3D Printing Issues From Happening” was added as first content of the new Knowledge Base.

Click the image to know more.

The article “Bondtech Firmware Variation Updates For Prusa 3D Printers”, previously written as a blog post, was added to the new Knowledge Base.

Click the image to know more.

The article “Bondtech Firmware Updates For Creality 3D Printers”, was added to the new Knowledge Base.

Click the image to know more.

The article “Bondtech Firmware Updates For Ultimaker 3D Printers”, was added to the new Knowledge Base.

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The article “Bondtech Firmware Updates For Bondtech Extruders”, was added to the new Knowledge Base.

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Product Packaging

Bondtech is working on a new eco-friendly packaging.

Bondtech’s goal for the new boxes is to quit on using foams and to supply a fully biodegradable package.

We will use free of bleach recycled paper and eco-friendly dyes only, to help achieve a more sustainable Future.

Click the image to zoom in and check the latest stage of design.

Focus on BCX

The post”Better Customer eXperience With Design Upgrade On DDS For CR-10S” presents the changes made on the DDS for CR-10S design to improve BCX.

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Support Communication

The article “Simple Measures To Prevent 3D Printing Issues From Happening”, has been extended and is now being recommended as first reading to every new Customer at the bottom of each “Order Completed” email we send.

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Every time a Bondtech Order is shipped, our system sends our Customers the “Order Completed” email. This email has been updated and extended with a link to the article mentioned above.

The article “Bondtech Lexikon of Terms And Names” was published in its first draft. Terms andexpressions related with 3D printing will be added to be used as a language standard between our team and our community.

Click the image to know more.

As last action of November, Bondtech Customer eXperience month, we updated the Bondtech Knowledge Base page to include links to all articles associated with Knowledge aimed to improve Customer eXperience.

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Greener Logistics

No concrete actions have been implemented during November.

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Do you speak Swedish?

Lagom, a sense of satisfaction, a quest for perfection.

Posted on November 29, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

29
Nov

Inte för mycket, inte för lite, lagom is a very popular expression in Sweden. In fact, lagom is one of the most Swedish words you can say.

Lagom conveys that idea of lack of extremism on a high state of confort. It represents a sense of satisfaction.

It is often used along with precis. Precis lagom signifies the exact and right amount of something. It is a quest for perfection.

Inte för mycket, inte för lite, lagom.

Inte

Inte is an adverb used to express the opposite or the negative of an adjective or verb.

Not too much, not too little, just right.

Not

The same applies to English when using the adverb not. It denies the following adjective or verb .

för

Here, used as an adverb, it conveys the idea of an excessive degree, and not as a diirection.

too

För has many applications and translations. In this context it should be replaced with too.

mycket

Mycket is used here as a pronoun, replacing the implicit subject, one that is of high quantity.

much

Here, and most of the times, it can be replaced with much, expressing a relative high quantity.

lite

Lite expresses the opposite sense of mycket. As a pronoun is conveys a low amount of something.

lite

As opposite of much, the right word to translate lite in this context is little.

lagom

Lagom here describes how much of the implicit subject, meaning the adequate amount.

just right

Just right may not be the exact translation word for word, but it conveys the same spirit.

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SALE

Bondtech Black Friday

Posted on November 25, 2019January 21, 2023 by Nuno Santiago

25
Nov

Black Friday is back

Next friday, 29 November 2019, come to bondtech.se between 00:00 @NewZealand (GMT+13) and 24:00 @SanFrancisco (GMT-8) and buy any BONDTECH product with 15% discount.

The promo excludes all Slice Engineering products and FedEx shipping costs.

We are waiting for you.

It’s a full day of buyer’s joy!!

Do you speak Swedish?

Nobel’s peace prize goes to…

Posted on November 22, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

22
Nov

The Nobel Peace Prize

According to Wikipedia, “The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel…”

Unlike the other 4 Nobel prizes, that are awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences, the Nobel Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and is announced every year during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall, in Sweden.

Due to his international character, the prize itself is awarded during an English spoken ceremony that occurs every 10th of December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.

Despite the multi-national character of the prize, and the fact the prize itself is not presented in this way, we selected this theme and this sentence to start with our “Talar du svenska?” series. It’s easy to relate with English, and actually makes sense as a prize presenting hook. Click the image to hear the sound sample.

Nobels fredspriset går till…

Nobels

Here we can see a way how the possessive can be formed in Swedish. An s is added to the subject to indicate the following object belongs to Nobel.

Nobel’s peace prize goes to…

Nobel’s

In English the possessif sentence adds ‘s to the subject Nobel as a way to replace “Nobel has” or “belongs to Nobel”.

fredspris

Here, the whole object fredspriset is composed of pris (prize) which is a sub-object that belongs to fred (peace), the sub-subject.

peace prize

While in English, for this particular application, peace is used as an adjective of the prize, the object saying it’s that kind of prize.

går

The subject is a thing, a det in this case. The verb att gå (to go) uses går
as Present tense to all the personal subjects, singular and plural.

goes

Here the verb should be translated to the 3rd person singular it. The 3rd person singularis the only that changes its form.

Jåg går
Du går
Han, Hon, Den, Det går
Vi går
Ni går
De går

This rule applies to all verbs in Swedish.
In Present tense, all persons use the same form.

I go
You go
He, She, It goes
We go
You go
They go

This rule also applies to all verbs in English.
In Present tense the 3rd person singular changes.

till

This word can be used in Swedish as an adjective, adverb or preposition. Here is used as a preposition meaning “to” to signal a direction.

In English, and in this application the Swedish word “till” should be translated by the preposition “to”, conveying the same sense of direction.

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Design Upgrade On DDS For CR-10S

Posted on November 20, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

20
Nov

More Focus On Customer eXperience

Our Direct Drive System for Creality CR-10S is already one of our most popular upgrade kits confirming also the high popularity of this Creality model.

The DDS was the first Bondtech upgrade kit that was designed to be supplied as a plug and play solution. The main idea behind it was to save customers the need to solder and tinker with too many technical operations.

Because this extruder kit is so popular we received a lot of feedback from customers, most of it very good, but sometimes less than great.

This miss on Customer eXperience perfection was what drove us to improve the product even more so customers can install and maintain it with even less effort.

Below you can find all the differences.

Although we got some occurrences…

some users reported heater or thermistor cable broke;
some users reported installation was hard;
some users reported main cable was unstable;

…we picked this feedback up, and did some improvements and tweaks to minor or eradicate completely the issues or its consequences.

Before And After Comparison

Below you can check the main differences between the old and new version.

Old versions are to the left. New versions to the right.

New units are already shipping!

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BCN3D EPSILON Powered by Bondtech Dual Drive Technology

Posted on November 17, 2019March 24, 2021 by Nuno Santiago

17
Nov

BCN3D launched a new 3D printer to serve the professional and industrial markets. According to BCN3D,

“… Epsilon is a powerful professional 3D printer, designed to deliver large-scale parts with industrial-grade materials, thanks to features such as its passive heated chamber and full enclosure. Powered by our Independent Dual Extruder (IDEX) system, the BCN3D Epsilon delivers exceptionally strong functional parts with quality and precision.”

The EPSILON features an available build volume of 420x300x400mm , full enclosure and a passive heated build chamber with air filtering. The air filter features a HEPA particles filter and a Carbon fumes filter to protect the work environment from harmful emissions.

BCN3D also introduced new professional and industrial materials with partnerships with BASF and MCPP. The new fiber loaded materials are PAHT CF15 and PP GF30.

Dual Drive Technology
Inside BCN3D Epsilon

Like in the previous models Sigma and Sigmax R19, EPSILON’s extruders feature high-tech dual drive gears by Bondtech™ to offer more control, sharper details and a superior performance for all kinds of filament.

Bondtech is happy to see this new model come to the market and wishes all the success to our partner.

You can know more about the EPSILON by visiting BCN3D’s product page.

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Latest Posts of the Bondtech Blog

3D Meetup Sweden 2020 is first show of the year for Bondtech

Questions are popping in people’s minds

The Knockoffs

The Clones

The Copycats

So what is the real difference?

Want to know more?

Want to know more?

Prusa i3 MK3S users can now print inside enclosed chamber at higher temperatures

Want to know more?

We celebrate November’s success

Check Below The Actions Taken To Improve Bondtech Customer eXperience

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Black Friday is back

The Nobel Peace Prize

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More Focus On Customer eXperience

Before And After Comparison

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Dual Drive Technology Inside BCN3D Epsilon

BCN3D EPSILON Features

Dual Drive Technology
Inside BCN3D Epsilon