• sam@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    used to love building printers. hated printing parts for printers. It’s all ABS/ASA and those are hard to print, what with the warping and bed/layer adhesion and toxic fumes. I print on a Railcore, which is an absolute beast of a printer and probably more sturdy than your average Voron, but it really wasn’t designed to be fully sealed so anything other than PLA has been a struggle for me.

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      15 hours ago

      I totally get printing and/or sourcing parts as another barrier on entry. I was able to print my own parts with my wanhao i3 plus under a very large cardboard box. Vorons are popular enough that you can buy pre-printed and/or CNC parts now, but their print it forward program has been around for years. But all of those come with some form of cost.