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This 3d printer is a great buy. Basically its fine as it comes, but, a few upgrades that you can print yourself and/or buy makes this a really good buy. I have enjoyed this printer greatly and without the fear of wasting hard earned money.
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If you like to tinker and have lots of patience, then this is the kit for you. It arrives as a box of parts, hundreds of screws, motors, motherboard and many parts and pieces. It is made of acrylic with an aluminum heated bed with a thermistor sensor. There are 4 stepper motors and a small color LCD screen. There is an SD card with video instructions of a technician assembling the printer. It actually works quite well and with pausing and replaying you can see how it is properly assembled. A few of the parts are slightly different from the video and require slight modification. For the price of $114 with free shipping, I wasn't sure if it would work at all, but I was pleasantly surprised. The acrylic parts are quite accurate and appear to be cut on a laser cnc machine. The mother board is a bare bones arduino with the MOSFET drivers and a small heat sink installed. The drivers are soldered in so when they fail, the board must be replaced. I found the 8 mm polished rods were not chromed and slightly rough from the machining. The Y axis rods were slightly bowed so I attempted to straighten them. I rolled them on a flat granite counter top and applied careful pressure in a vise until they were close to as straight as the others. After carefully assembling the kit which took me a good day working with my 13 y/o grandson, we fired it up. It came alive so I went to the All Home on the menu. X,Y and Z steppers fired up and moved towards the home position of 0,0,0. The only problem was the limit switch for the x axis was on the wrong side so it made a terrible sound. After relocating the limit switch it went to home and stopped perfectly. I leveled the bed using the Intelligent leveling and loaded a sample g-code that I took off of Thingiverse and sliced with the CURA program provided on the SD card. I was pleasantly surprised to have it print a perfect pair of owls on the first try. I was worried about heat damage on the small power supply and motherboard so i added small fans from an old computer which keep them nice and cool. I have been working this printer constantly for about 3 weeks, sometimes overnight with very few problems. It is not a high quality printer but a great introduction to 3d printing for a low price. If you want to learn about 3d printers and are willing to work around small issues in component quality and quality control then this is a lot of fun.Read full review
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Maybe Im the wrong person to write this. Im too new to 3D printers to know the ends and outs. This however is what I have learned so far. Came intact in a heavily padded box. Its going to make it to you in that much foam. Easy to build, the instruction video gets the job done up till the end where its too fast on the plug locations. Spent alot of time pausing. It does NOT come with paper instructions and no build information in the manuals on the USB stick. Relies on the video. It does not have a on/off button. You have to unplug it. I can build that. Pay attention to the USB plug, it powers the board plugged into a computer like a Arduino so you will forget the power supply isnt on. Easy mistake. The Cura program is older because the unit is not compatible with the newest 3.5.1. Windows 7 does not like the USB drivers so Im frustrated with that. Never mind the software itself is a damaged file on the USB stick that comes with it. Your downloading this either way, stick with 15 or older. Weird, numbers jump around like that on versions. Im hung on the printer head issue, and not getting past the first attempt to lay a bead. It could be too close to the board, not far enough, or whatever. I attribute that part to me. It acts likes it working otherwise on the gcode commands. Im still playing wit it. This is rugged, and ideal for folks who know what they are doing. Lots of potential to alter or do more with if your a DIY person. However, this is very much a DIY and you need to be ready for that. So I wouldnt recommend this to someone green like me, but Im sure those DIY guys could kit bash this into a real monster. Which is what I hope to do later when I get used to it.Read full review
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The hand tools are of good quality. The program on the Mimi SD card worked out of the gate. The print was good. The build was good and about 8 hours only because it was missing some long screws. There was’nt enough long screws with the set and too many short screws. No off/on switch. No plate between the fan and the extruder, meaning cooling plate and holder for the outo-depth censor.
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Oh no good little machine some simple problems that are fixable my problem came in after it was together and I started having some problems with the motherboard a couple of Parts came unsoldered so I fix them still have a problem with the extruder jittering on the Z1 side of the printer before it gets ahold of itself and starts to print have not figured out that problem yet but all in all like the machine
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