Here is my 3D Printing Setup. Anyone else on Lemmy Interested in 3D printing?
Here is my current setup. It’s an old Ender 3, has a BLtouch, direct drive dual gear, all metal hot end, and an extension cable for the control panel. I have an adapter as well to use it as a plotter.
As with most 3D printers it seems, it is currently broken lmao.
Of course! Just finished my Voron 2.4 build very recently. Lots of new stuff to see coming from a Prusa MK3S+.
That’s a damn nice printer. Looking back I definitely should have splurged a bit more for a nicer printer like that.
Honestly you can get such nice prints out of cheap printers with a little bit of tinkering nowadays the Voron printers are pretty much designed to be overkill for most stuff.
That’s true. And I have been able to get nice prints out of it. But at least with my Ender 3 it feels like a constant uphill battle to keep it in working order.
I’ve probably spent 72 hours total trying to fix the current problem I’ve been having with mine, and at a certain point I’d rather that I would have gotten a more robust one to begin with, even if that means an over kill printer.
Granted, these are very delicate machines that are always going to inevitably break down regardless of model. It still would be nice to have one that takes longer to break down.
Yeah, I heard that from some people about their Ender.
My Prusa MK3 is approaching the fifth year now but it still prints like on day one. Sure, it’s getting louder and is in desperate need of some lubrication but is still prints like a champ. In fact, it printed all the parts for my Voron 2.4 inside of a cardboard box. First time printing ABS as well.
ABS is such a pain to print with, even after all the upgrades I’ve done. I still have the majority of the roll I started with. I’ll probably never get through it.
Once I get my printer fixed I’m sticking with PLA for a good while.
Yeah, PLA prints very easily compared to ABS. I was also struggling a lot when I started using it for the Voron parts.
Worked out pretty well with a cardboard box as enclosure though. Just barely 40°C but that was enough to keep the prints on the plate.
The Voron prints ABS with absolutely no issues. PLA was a pain at first due to heat creep but I swapped to a different hotend and now PLA also prints like a charm.
Once I get my printer fixed I’m sticking with PLA for a good while.
Out of interest, what’s broken on your Ender?
I have an enclosure for mine, still never was able to print it very well. Probably mostly because of how hot ABS needs the nozzle to be. It seems that 260 is a big ask for my printer even with the all metal hot end.
Out of interest, what’s broken on your Ender?
It’s underextruding, but only on every nth layer, with a small bit of variance.
I’ve tried replacing the hot end, nozzle, the top half of the extruder, calibrating the extruder, using a different slicer, different filament, different slicer settings.
This time around I’m just done trying to fix it, so I’m probably gonna drop it off at a local repair shop to see if they can figure it out. From what I’ve told them, they think the extruder motor is dying. And maybe they’re right, but I just don’t have the time right now to troubleshoot it further myself.
Subscribed to pull your community into lemmy.ml, should show up if anyone searches for 3D printing now
I didn’t know that’s how it worked. I appreciate it!
Any user could just put in the full URL of your community to subscribe like I did, but this is a tumultuous time. Just trying to make things as easy as possible for the torrent of new users coming in :)
I’m running an Ender 3. Although through the 3.5 years I’ve had it it’s had so many parts changed and upgraded it’s turning into a real ship of Theseus. Upgraded the mobo, hotend, direct drive extruder, raspberry pi for octoprint, enclosure, and bltouch for bed leveling.
It’s definitely been a rewarding hobby, learning to use fusion and building things from scratch.
