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Oh I can't argue with that. I don't use them for any kind of savings. It's definitely because it's more fun to use them vs buying a replacement part. I'm not a brokie, so I don't care about saving money. You have to be at least a level 5 autist to really enjoy it, though.
To chip in a little on this topic.Thanks guys. Really appreciate the insights and recommendations. I'll look into AnyCubic and go from there.
Two things I picked up on will continue to bother me: (A) Toxicity. Doesn't seem like this is something I can just dismiss. I'll be using this in a pretty confined space so have to think more about extraction. (B) Myth of financial benefit. I have these grand ideas of saving all this money over time making my own shit but, well, it sounds like that is a pretty common trap
I get my bonus end of May and will probably make the final decision then
Thanks again!
I think it's the same problem any time you try to combine "profitable" and "enthusiast". The profitable part means you need to have a product that people want to buy, but the enthusiast part is usually just the means of getting there, which is a whole lot less interesting and exciting than the enthusiast part in and of itself. (There's overlap sometimes, and some people manage to make it work of course.) I see a lot of little niche businesses selling stuff that's 3d printed, but the prints aren't really the product itself. They're just one piece to the puzzle of solving a different problem (mounting brackets, specialized cases, etc.). And the printed piece could likely be better solved a different way if the volume was significant enough. These seem like exactly the kinds of things that 3d printing is great at, but they don't exactly sound like the kind of thing an enthusiast would want to start a business doing.
Yeah, I have my retract at 1mm right now and it's printing beautifully.
Honestly, I think starting out with an Ender or anything similar(Creality CR10 was my first printer) makes you appreciate just how good the Bambu systems are. If the Bambu was someone's first printer, they are pretty misleading in how most Chinese printers are. I think I spent more time leveling my bed on the Creality than I did actually printing. It was also fucking glacially slow.
I liked the Bambu printers so much, i got my nephew (12) the A1, as he had a Ender 3 handed down to him, and i was tech support. The A1 is amazing too, occasionally brittle filament will break off in the AMS tube and minor work is need to clear it.
Yeah, I've completely disassembled my AMS like 5 times now because of little filament bit getting stuck in one of the bowden tubes. Really wish they made those paths easily accessible.
