Oddbean new post about login | logout What 3d printer should I look at for beginner use, and ability to print pews with a long with everything else I would like to print #pew #gunstr #3dprinter #asknostr
I've heard good things about Ender printers.
Spend more money and get a printer that can easily be enclosed and isn't a bed-slinger. They just aren't worth buying for gun stuff, IMO.
Says the smug American, as he leans against the 2A :p
I'm not smug. I've printed a bunch of gun stuff. Bed slingers suck to keep running correctly. There are good, inexpensive printers that cost less than updating an Ender or CR10 style printer. You NEED to be able to print ABS out of the box. Not so much that you need to print ABS, but you need the hot end to be able to handle prints at at last 260*C for days. You NEED to be able to enclose the printer for durable filaments that are very sensitive to humidity and temperature fluctuations. You can certainly do that with bedslingers, but it sucks to get them tuned in to print what I consider dimensionally consistent enough to print parts for gun stuff.
Okay, I take that back :)
What do you recommend? I can't drop the 1500 on the bambu top end. It's going to be around 3-400 or my wife is going to be pissed. I already drop all loose change into sats. Pulling this off will be tough enough in that price range lol
I haven't looked at the market in obey two years. I would not ever spend that much on a printer. Especially not one like the Bambu that phones home. I took a peak. The Creality Ender 5. It's over your budget, but your budget is ignorantly incorrect to start with. By the time you replace everything that sucks, you'll have spent more than you ever wanted to and had way too much frustration. You'll need to eventually mod the Ender 5,but, you're starting with a much better platform.
Well that's just really disheartening lol. I want one for more than just pew though. Does that make a difference?
The fact of the matter is if you're willing to put in dozens and dozens of hours fighting dumb stuff to print things well enough to trust your fingers and face to it when you're shooting stuff.
Thats a fair point. I may get a cheaper one just to learn on and printing stuff for my kids and chickens and then branch out
Then get the nicest version of the ender 3. It'll be fine to learn on, but... Gosh it gets annoying rebuilding printers.
The bambu was highly recommended to me by several people that print and I was told the bed is big enough to print a lower without adjusting and the interface is supposed to be one of the easiest
Easy is good I'm not that smart lol
That was what I said when they recommended it to me… still trying to get the final approvals from the boss before I can shell out the money to get one, I was originally looking at the ender 3, but 2of the guys have the ender and told me that though it is cheap, there is more technical knowledge required to use it