Ender 5 with the following upgrades:
- BigTreeTech skr mini v2
- MicroSwiss hot end
- Orbiter extruder
- BLTouch
- OctoPrint
I'm quite happy with it, print quality is mostly decent although it requires a lot of tweaking to get to good quality.
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Ender 5 with the following upgrades:
I'm quite happy with it, print quality is mostly decent although it requires a lot of tweaking to get to good quality.
Prusa Mini here! I only swapped the nozzle for a larger one to print “faster”. All stock stuff so I can spend more time learning and printing stuff I design myself with CAD!
Bought Ultimaker 2+ long time ago. Its amazing and it is a reason why my older prusa like printer is collecting dust. I wouldnt buy it again tho, because there are much cheaper printers available
I have a couple of prusa mk3s one of which I'm upgrading to the 4
All my printing is done at my local makerspace. We have:
3 x Ultimaker 2
3 x Ultimaker 2 extended
Formlabs Form 3b
Markforged mkII
Most of my printing is in the Ultimakers but I use the form 3b for anything small or that needs that extra find detail. I havent found a good reason to use the Markforged yet (the consumables are quite expensive) but should be fun when the need arises :)
Ender 3 with BL-TOUCH, that BTT drop in replacement board with silent steppers (the first model), geared extruder, Micro Swiss nozzle, Creality glass bed, unholy loud Sunon fan on the block and a few printed extras.
Then a Monoprice Mini Select v2 with an aluminum extruder. Both have their Raspberry with camera and Octoprint.
Also a super dusty Elegoo Mars 2.
Makerbot replicator 2. Old as hell but still gets the job done for my limited purposes.
Prusa Mini+
Creality CR10 - Almost every aspect of it was upgraded.
I can print just under 190mm/s at volumetric flow rates of 20-25mm3/s. Also gonna try out those CHT nozzles and see if they can help with flow rates too.
I am planning on getting a lighter y carriage and lighter alu bed and see if i can go faster
Also upgrading to an AC powered bed. Probably going to leave it with the 12v PSU, once i get the AC powered bed.
Hotend doesn't take long to heat up unlike the bed almost 16-18 mins to 90c.
I will probably be getting a prusa mk4 or BambuLabs x1c as my next printer then a Voron. Once I get one of these my Prusa Mini will be converted to coreXY.
Anycubic Photon Mono 4k. It's been pretty good so far. Lots of hours on it, so expecting the screen to burn out ar some point.
Currently printing on an anycubic photon D2 ultra, have a prusa XL on order for my FDM machine. Last FDM was a monoprice maker select + that was a workhorse for years before I gave it to a friend when I moved in may.
Started with Ender 3 but got annoyed with it not being very reliable for me (probably due to my own modifications). Now using the Sovol SV06 and very happy with it so far after a couple months.
My first printer was a Artillery Sidewinder X2, but I've pretty much completely switched to a Bambu Lab X1 Carbon now. I never really had too many issues with the SWX2, but the allure of multi-material and faster prints was too much.
Flashforge Creator Pro (Modded to single E3d V6 Hotend), Voxelab Aries, Voxelab Aquila, SUNLUT3, Ender 5 S1, Ender 2 Pro, Kingroon KP3S Pro S1 (I currently have a love hate with this one).
Have another Ender 2 Pro sitting waiting for mods, and a Monoprice Ultimate 2 waiting for a custom flash.
I think the next one will be a custom from the groud up build. I want something large.
Heavily modified Geeetech A10M - no longer prints in two colours but it's using better quality parts than stock
MP Mini Delta V1 - I will be going down the rabbit hole of calibration and mods for this printer at some point, it isn't great due to the areas where monoprice/malyan had cheaped out on
Ender3 v2 running Klipper with a BLTouch and a Micro Swiss NG extruder.
I backed a kickstarter for Mingda magician X, it’s been working just fine as first cheap printer. I’m looking at prusa new model for my next
I have an Ender 3 V2 that I barely ever print on any more because I have a RatRig V-Minion now. I love this little monster, it's so fast.
Ender 5 Pro with a few upgrades. 3DTouch sensor was the first upgrade I bought. Currently running a Hero Me Gen 7 toolhead with dual 5015 blower fans and a 4020 hotend cooling fan that I'm running at a lower voltage to reduce noise. Got an Orbiter 2.0 extruder mounted in direct drive which I love, great little extruder. V6 Clone All-Metal Hotend with a standard 0.4mm nozzle for now, but looking to get a CHT soon. I also recently got a spring steel textured PEI build plate, massive improvement over the stock floppy surface, I should have upgraded sooner. In my quest for less noisy printing, I've replaced the PSU and mainboard fans with two 120mm PC fans, works great so far.
The motion system is really the bottleneck now, it seems the limit is around 150mm/s with 1250mm/s^2 acceleration which is lower than Ender 5 Pro's I've seen on the internet, any higher than that and I get layer shifts. I'm looking to do the ZeroG Mercury conversion in the future.
MK3s with an MK4 ordered. My wife also recently got an Anycubic Photon D2
Ender 3 max neo, how do you check the number of hours ?