3D Printer for 75 bucks. (Page 8/10)
TheDigitalAlchemist OCT 10, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by litespd:

I just ordered one. I've been wanting to try 3D printing, but just didn't want to spend the money. The ebay link you gave had a price of $80, but you could also make an offer, so I offered $70 and they accepted. Waiting now for it to arrive. Do you still recommend ordering the magnetic bed sheets, as this seems to come with that.




I have several of these printers, and the last few (the "+" model) all came with a magnetic bed. so you don't really need the magnetic bed sheets.

But I might plop a "regular sheet" on over the flexible one, and then remove that one very hundred prints or so...

I dunno, the flex plate has been goin' just fine so far, and I've been printing a ton of prints for some special needs kid's art supplies... (about 3 dozen prints) and I haven't seen any indication that the surface has been 'compromised' at all...
Thanks for the tip about the "offer 70 bucks"...
TheDigitalAlchemist OCT 10, 08:46 PM
I DO recommend tightening that grub screw (maybe plop on some locktite on that puppy)
TheDigitalAlchemist JUN 28, 04:59 PM
Just a little bump - anyone still using theirs?
williegoat JUN 28, 05:26 PM

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Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:

Just a little bump - anyone still using theirs?


I just made a bracket a couple of weeks ago, to put a SATA SSD into an old mechanical drive bay.

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MidEngineManiac JUN 28, 05:51 PM
Sold one of mine, the other 2 have been in storage for a couple months. Come fall might sell them too and pick up something a little updated from the E3.

Honestly, not much money at all in it around here anymore. Even custom stuff. Too many people jumped in and it's just price warz. LMAO, the last couple pieces I needed for ebike stuff I did up the STL myself then farmed out the actual printing. Cheaper and easier than ordering filament and effing around with it myself. Let somebody else deal with the problems and waste.
Wichita JUN 29, 01:00 AM
I shelved mine too. I can't get it to finish any prints after only a few successful ones when I first got it. I've tried every suggestion, calibration and filament that everyone said or suggested. I must have tried well over 100 times, probably 200, and it fails each and every time.

People in the 3D community says just chuck it.

It was an Ender 3 Neo. Though it was only like $200 bucks. I don't want to go through that wasted time ever again. I don't mind having to do a little calibration, but if it can just freaking finish a print now and then, I would be happy.

I'm up for maybe spending more money on a good one, but it MUST work and be reliable. I'm sort of burned on my first experience in 3D printing. I sort of don't even trust the high end ones, because people report issues with them too.

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MidEngineManiac JUN 29, 10:21 AM
Yup. Enders are for people who want to screw around with machines, not for people who want to print

My old Anycubic was pretty much trouble free until the harness burned up, then I got such a run-around trying to get replacement parts I eventually just trashed it. Good printer, absolute crap customer service unless you are the original purchaser and have invocie #, order number, which vendor you got it from ect, ect. They dont wanna deal with stuff from secondary sellers.
TheDigitalAlchemist JUN 29, 11:13 AM
Yeah, ours are mostly collecting dust on a shelf... I guess one of the things that got us so psyched about it early on was the environment - my son built a delta printer around 2014, and he brought it to Makerfaire. There was a whole "printer village" there and a few companies brought some really cool things - pieces for F1 cars and rockets and such. Even a 3d printed car. Lots of cool potential, but It never really got past the "print out trinkets and small practical prints" for most. Some used theirs to print cosplay stuff... Iron man costumes, etc, but things kinda didn't go the way we thought it would. Oh there's been huge exponential increases in innovation and all that, but so many folks just made their little board blink an LED or print "hello world" on a little screen.

We did use ours to make some fun stuff. Maybe need to break a few of them out and do somethin' with them. Have a good one.
fredtoast JUN 29, 02:12 PM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

So, you have two now?


Maybe he used his 3D printer to print another 3D printer.
williegoat JUL 29, 05:33 PM
I just printed up a case for an LCD1602 display to hook up to a Raspberry Pi 4 that I ordered last week.