Anet A8 3D Printer.

[ukracer]

You can get Ender 3s for under £150, sometimes they have ones hat have been returned and checked over for under £120 (which is what I purchased). Then add £10-£15 for a glass bed. The Ender 3 was my first machine and the CR10 second (then I was given the others). Some of the Anycubic printers also have good reviews. If I need speed or highest quality I will use the delta (its also fun to watch but will drive you to despair trying to keep it working) Then if it fits, I will print on the Ender 3 and it is only if I need the print volume (or need to print a few parts at once using multiple machines) I will use the CR10 units.

One thing I forgot to say, the CR10 and CR10 mini require a lot less assembly work (an Ender 3 will take 2 or 3 hours to build, the CR10 is a few minutes)

So if you did not have one could you put them in the order you would buy them?

 

[Ruffian]

So if you did not have one could you put them in the order you would buy them?

Yea I would like to know which order you put them also,

If you have both the ender 3s and the cr10mini if you could only have one. Which would you buy?

 

[tlovatt]

So if you did not have one could you put them in the order you would buy them?

If I were to do it again:

1) Ender 3 - It is faster to warm up, takes up significantly less space and produces good quality prints with minimal maintenance.
2) CR10 - Slower to warm up, slower to print, has been quite reliable but is not as good as the ender 3 unless you need to build volume
3) Delta - Great fun to watch, but it is such high maintenance. The printer has given me the best results but the worst tempers and I have come close to throwing it out a few times! Also the circular build plate is quite small when printing normal objects due to the wasted space.
4) CR10 mini - Nothing wrong with the printer, but has no advantage over the CR10 with a disadvantage of a smaller build volume and is inferior to the Ender 3 due to bigger footprint and longer warm up times.

A few conclusions I have come to:
- Stuff auto levelling, the ones I have tried always need a tweak anyway so just learn to level a bed properly (there are plenty of instructions around) and one you are familiar with it it is no big deal anyway.
- Ignore the big list of mods that people come up with, they are almost all pointless (unless you start off with a very low price A8 clone where some of them can give improvements)
- Build volume is not all it has cracked up to be as reals are limited to 1kg anyway and given the print time, if you want big, split your design up into seperate parts if you an and use a smaller printer.
- When starting off and being told that your problem is bed levelling but you know it is not, you are wrong and the rest of the world is right even if you have an auto levelling system.

Given what I now know, I would swap the cr-10 mini and dekata printer for some smaller build volume units such as an Ender 2 which would free up a lot of space in my spare room and they would be the ones doing most of the work. It is very tempting to pursue bigger and bigger print volumes, but if you are running a 48 hour print and something goes wrong (which on a print of that timescale it is more likely to do) then you have a big loss, instead I split my designs up into smaller parts and print a number in parallel, it is much quicker overall, you do not have to try putting on a new real of PLA part way through the print (which normally goes wrong) and if something does go wrong you have a much smaller repeat print to perform.

 

[Ruffian]

That answers my questions then.
I'm going to end up with a ender3 rather than the cr10.

Thankyou,


*so now it's on order with the ender 3 with a glass Deck and 5 extra nozzles.*

 

[choco]

This printer looks promising for the price. Tmc2208's on the X and Y axis. Still stuck with an 8bit controller though.
€ 266,23 27%OFF | ANYCUBIC 3D Printer 4Max Pro Large Plus Size FDM Impresora 3d Diy Kit Modular Design Printer 3d Nozzle 3D Printer Plastic
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/5IxLEoZa

 

[carbon]

If it helps a 32 bit board can be had for just under £18 and tmc2209’s at just under £7. Makes a big difference to print quality and noise compared to 8 bit with a4988 drivers

The only downside to this approach would be having to go through all the setting in the firmware to get the printer operational

 

[DAPPH]

Does anyone have any links to places you can buy new unused SDS class 10 memory cards ?
I've got four 2 gig ones fairly filed up but find new ones at £8 or more a go a tad expensive

 

[snoozer]

Get all my Cards and Flash drives from these Guys.
https://www.mymemory.co.uk/?gclid=C...2aUYRaJp3PrgoGVcJpZcmvJ_XIy6ba9BoCSfsQAvD_BwE

 

[DAPPH]

Thanks snoozer that might help .

Next question folks , is there such a thing as a memory stick plug into to memory card slot converter either as a simple one piece bit or three bits on a fly lead ?
I've got several memory sticks but can't feed them into my original 3i card slot .

 

[snoozer]

Thanks snoozer that might help .

Next question folks , is there such a thing as a memory stick plug into to memory card slot converter either as a simple one piece bit or three bits on a fly lead ?
I've got several memory sticks but can't feed them into my original 3i card slot .

Not an easy find but they are out there.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...pm=a2700.7724857.normalList.27.5d745ad56JvoB1

 

[Ruffian]

Well it got delivered today at 330, had to wait till the mrs brought it home from work so made sure I hovered and cooked tea to get some bonus points so no excuse not to play.

Built it in about 40mins, 20mins setup time and now 15mins through the first trial print, (flash card comes with 4 prints on it to setup and test)

So just watching for the time being to make sure it's ok but so far really happy with it.

 

[tlovatt]

Well it got delivered today at 330, had to wait till the mrs brought it home from work so made sure I hovered and cooked tea to get some bonus points so no excuse not to play.

Built it in about 40mins, 20mins setup time and now 15mins through the first trial print, (flash card comes with 4 prints on it to setup and test)

So just watching for the time being to make sure it's ok but so far really happy with it.

Hope you have a happy time with it - one mod that is worth doing is printing out an arm that stops the filament coming into the extruder drive at such a sharp angle

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2917932

 

[pawsnizzy]

Does anyone have any links to places you can buy new unused SDS class 10 memory cards ?
I've got four 2 gig ones fairly filed up but find new ones at £8 or more a go a tad expensive

7 Day Shop

 

[Ruffian]

And the dog is complete.

Pretty happy with the finished item considering that is stock settings etc straight out of the box with just leveling the bed

 

[Justme]

Do any members offer printing services?

 

[bigegg]

Do any members offer printing services?

i don't mind running something off as a one-off, but tbh my prints aren't anything like as nice as those above.

 

[Ruffian]

Do any members offer printing services?

i don't mind running something off as a one-off, but tbh my prints aren't anything like as nice as those above.

Same I'm still learning but more than willing to give stuff a go.

 

[DAPPH]

Not an easy find but they are out there.

https://www.alibaba.com/product-det...pm=a2700.7724857.normalList.27.5d745ad56JvoB1

Thanks ever so much for the effort you put into trying and help me solve the problem
Unfortunately after eventually managing to sign up to banggood I saw what you indicated.

The spec however stated it is a straight through usb to usb then a separated memory card female to male with no inter connection. ( alibaba seem only sell in large numbers B2B but they don't have what I was seeking . ) ​

Interestingly , Marina of Prusa help desk simply said, " No we don't do adaptors like that. We use SD memory cards as they don't need massive memory for the g codes of a 3D print."

I pointed out I can get small GB capacity memory sticks far cheaper than 2 or 4 GB SD memory cards . I think it might have been taken on board for I filled out an online , " Dissatisfied with the reply from their help desk ", stating my needs .

I just hope that I can correctly identify the pin outs at each plug or socket end for me to make the converter myself . And of course find a male SD card plug that can be soldered on to .

 

[DAPPH]

7 Day Shop

Dave , Is that on eBay , amazon or a co.uk or .com address P

awsnizzy ?​

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I put it in to eBay and found some expensive ones in the £7-8 range , no smaller 2 to 4 GB capacities either .​

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3D …..Dave ​

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[bigegg]

the retail site of alibaba is aliexpress.com