I have one that is very similar and I bought it pretty much out of curiosity. It sits in the corner of my office gathering dust. My experience with 3D printing was pretty underwhelming. It is very finicky and the results aren't that great. It gets pretty frustrating when something goes wrong 4 or 5 hours into a print (3D printing is SLOOW). This type of 3D printing is pretty inaccurate and prone to distortion due to uneven cooling etc. The prints also aren't that strong. If you put enough time into it you can get some good results but most of the stuff I want to make either needs to be strong or dimensionally accurate (or usually both together).
Mechanically these machines aren't bad for the money. The filament feed motors are a bit under powered and can struggle to feed, especially with ABS or nylon. The filament is supposed to be fed through a tube to the head but I found it works much better to mount a roller above the machine and pass the filament over that. Having two heads is a nice idea in theory but I found the second head can sometimes knock your part off the table. I ended up removing the extruder nozzle on the second head. I don't regret getting mine. It was an interesting learning exercise but IMHO hobby level 3D printing has a long way to go before it will become really useful. If you are serious about building a large format machine I would definitely suggest getting something like this first. Les On 28/03/2017 15:48, andy pugh wrote: > I find myself astonished that I don't have a 3D printer. > I am thinking of buying one. > Longer-term I think I will end up making a large-format delta pritner, > so the one I buy will be more ot a toe-dipping exercise, and I am > looking at: > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182454763977 > Any thoughts? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
