Anyone into 3D printing?
- Thread starter Mouse
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- The Land Northward (Bountiful), Utah
Looks almost identical to me.
www.eastwood.com
Eastwood Genesis FDM 3D Printer
Affordable Quality 3D Printer To Make Parts at Home
www.eastwood.com
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
My ender was around $175. It's printed several spools of pla and a spool of petg without a single hiccup. Id buy another one tomorrow if mine vanished.
ebryson
Active Member
- Location
- Bountiful, Utah
On an Ender 3 you can even print yourself parts and upgrades for it. Like @1969honda said massive online support for it.
- Location
- Draper, UT
Wow, what an intricate kit. 6lbs of screws, nuts, and bolts, 7 stepper motors, 4 fans. I bought printed parts with enough pieces to get the printer to run, but no embellishments. It is assembled, to the degree I have parts, wired, and initial smoke test (negative for smoke). I had preloaded the SD card on the Raspberry Pi and it's pretty cool to watch Linux boot in tiny little letters on the display (albeit upside down, for now). Tomorrow I'll work on getting MainSail and Klipper installed. Who knows, maybe even I'll be able to squirt some plastic.
If you squint really hard you can almost see the LED's glowing.
Bed heater is 120V 750W and is controlled by the solid state switch in the bottom left.
Top right is the raspberry pi (version 4b),
below that is the BigTreeTech Octopus 1.1,
bottom right is a breakout board for the cable to the print head and limit switches.
You can see 2 of the 4 Z-axis stepper motors to the top left and right.
The entire frame, upside down.
If you squint really hard you can almost see the LED's glowing.
Bed heater is 120V 750W and is controlled by the solid state switch in the bottom left.
Top right is the raspberry pi (version 4b),
below that is the BigTreeTech Octopus 1.1,
bottom right is a breakout board for the cable to the print head and limit switches.
You can see 2 of the 4 Z-axis stepper motors to the top left and right.
The entire frame, upside down.
- Location
- Draper, UT
first print is running
More parts for the printer
and done
More parts for the printer
and done
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- Location
- Draper, UT
second round, 9hr 37 min
- Location
- Draper, UT
I got the first layer dialed in now.. I am really amazed that a setting change of .005mm actually made a big difference.
Ignore the scratch I made in the process...
pretty happy with the results
and I like the large printer space
Ignore the scratch I made in the process...
pretty happy with the results
and I like the large printer space
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
I have printer envy.
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable - The Oatmeal
Behold, the printer hate machine.
theoatmeal.com
Dude, same!
Spork
Tin Foil Hat Equipped
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, UT
Get a brother laser printer and 95% of your printer problems will go away. I used to fight my old inkjet every time the kids needed to print something, I bought a brother printer 6 years ago and the only thing I've done since is add paper and replaced the toner cartridge every couple of years.
glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
I've been an electronics tech for 25 years. Printers (the paper type) are definitely manufactured in hell as per Stephen's link. 3D printers are actually much easier to operate and maintain.
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Printers are the bane of any IT support tech. I'm sooooooo happy I don't deal with them anymore.
RockChucker
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- Location
- Highland
Been redoing the air supply for my lockers. Got a smokin deal on an arb twin about 6 months ago. Decided to change up and simplify. Solenoids are going away and moving to Humphrey poppet valves. Designed and printed up a mount for the valves and switches out of ASA. 
Corban_White
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- Location
- Payson, AZ
So I'm looking at getting a 3d printer, but I'm a total noob and googling gives me lots of results. For a $200-$500 budget what's your recommendation? The ender 3 had several recommendations above, is that the way to go or is there a better option if I spend a little more?