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Post by Mr NCT on Jul 31, 2023 1:32:03 GMT
I went nuts and bought a Prusa MK4 kit. Holy smokes, everything I've printed with it so far as been perfect - no fiddling with settings, no releveling, no nothing. I sliced using the Prusa slicer and recommended settings and everything has printed right and adhered to the bed the first time. What a change from my Ender 3v2. With the Ender I spent a day trying to print PETG and finally gave up. Then when I went back to PLA it took a couple of hours to get it back printing. With the Prusa you push "change filament" and it heats the hot end, extracts the filament, asks what filament your loading and then loads and purges. Period. The first PETG print was flawless with good adhesion and no stringing. And fast? The thing prints parts in about half the time it took the Ender for the same part. I'm blown away.
I'm really glad I had the Ender first so that I appreciate how good the Prusa is.
Feel free to razz me but I'm hooked.
BTW, the kit is just that - a box of parts. Everything was bagged and labeled by contents and what part of the printer it goes to. I've been assembling, installing and servicing CNC machines for 40 years and the Prusa instructions were the best I've ever seen and they include all the tools you need, spare nuts and bolts and a bag of gummy bears. For the price it oughta be this good but any more what actually lives up to the price and hype?
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jul 31, 2023 4:08:27 GMT
I went nuts and bought a Prusa MK4 kit. Holy smokes, everything I've printed with it so far as been perfect - no fiddling with settings, no releveling, no nothing. I sliced using the Prusa slicer and recommended settings and everything has printed right and adhered to the bed the first time. What a change from my Ender 3v2. With the Ender I spent a day trying to print PETG and finally gave up. Then when I went back to PLA it took a couple of hours to get it back printing. With the Prusa you push "change filament" and it heats the hot end, extracts the filament, asks what filament your loading and then loads and purges. Period. The first PETG print was flawless with good adhesion and no stringing. And fast? The thing prints parts in about half the time it took the Ender for the same part. I'm blown away. I'm really glad I had the Ender first so that I appreciate how good the Prusa is. Feel free to razz me but I'm hooked. BTW, the kit is just that - a box of parts. Everything was bagged and labeled by contents and what part of the printer it goes to. I've been assembling, installing and servicing CNC machines for 40 years and the Prusa instructions were the best I've ever seen and they include all the tools you need, spare nuts and bolts and a bag of gummy bears. For the price it oughta be this good but any more what actually lives up to the price and hype? Congrats! Yeah, I am 100% sure the real deal is better. If I'm not mistaken, the ender 3v2 is supposed to be the "best budget printer" but it is really the best way to get frustrated and quit the hobby. It is adequate for printing PLA and that is about it. It struggled with PETG and TPU, I never even tried anything else. I gave it away, mainly because I didn't want to subject people to the torture. The other thing, it costs $200 or so, but it is a bowden tube, and it has a shitty hotend, and it quite literally needs everything upgraded on the printer. By the time you get done upgrading it, you are at a higher buy in than getting a better printer lol. And you know what I don't get... the people that say "bowden tubes have their advantages" and "I'm not sure if I want to upgrade to direct drive or not because there is problems." The people that say that have not used a direct drive printer.. period. People talking out of their butts on the internet again. Half the info you find about 3D printing is either clickbait journalism articles or people that just might know a little more than you or I speculating, or worse, people talking out of their butts. Ok enough ender bashing. I know your exact feeling. When I upgraded to the sidewinder, I though "oh, this is what it is supposed to be like." Since I have an E3D V6 type hotend like you, I was able to bomb proof my hotend for $40 on aliexpress and that is literally all I have ever had to do with my printer and print whatever I want. It is great. You will start prints and not go check on it every 10 minutes. Or start a large print in the morning with a 50/50 shot that you will have a spaghetti pile, clog, or be dragging a wad of filament over your bed, and be poking the stupid nozzle with the stupid needle. Yours is probably better than mine in everyway, so you must me loving it. Now..... get into ABS, you will like that too. I flew the P-47 today, 5 packs, and cartwheeled it once (well it was a 45 degree cartwheel, but still the wings and prop dug in pretty good) and had a couple of bad landings and the thing is still in once piece. I haven't experimented with nylon or polycarbonate yet, but you can be that guy! But I am 100% I don't have to poke and prod my printer after and before every print. Honestly, after you could the "mods" I did to my ender and the amount of wasted filament because it was a POS, I could have probably bought a Prusa. I know the sidewinder has paid for itself already. |
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Post by ratcheeroo on Jul 31, 2023 23:11:39 GMT
Wow!! Nice Purchase!! I am envious of both of you now LMAO! I can hear my conversation with the wife , " but Hun they other guys got new super nice printers, I need one ,weeeee need one" LOL!!! No really I need to upgrade. Guess I need to add another item to the Santa list. Again congrats on the purchase, nice machine.
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Post by Mr NCT on Jul 31, 2023 23:28:48 GMT
I can make kitchen stuff for you
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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 1, 2023 4:05:44 GMT
Wow!! Nice Purchase!! I am envious of both of you now LMAO! I can hear my conversation with the wife , " but Hun they other guys got new super nice printers, I need one ,weeeee need one" LOL!!! No really I need to upgrade. Guess I need to add another item to the Santa list. Again congrats on the purchase, nice machine. I lucked into mine for a little more than the price of an ender. I've seen people raving about the bamboo printers too. But I also see lots of hype and dazzle around it, two things that turn me off. I don't think I want to take the gamble on that. Although, I'm not looking to upgrade. |
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