I went down a rabbit hole with mine. Fysetc is great for really cheap components until you realize you likely need to replace half of what they send. For example I had to replace the main board on the kit they sent me since it was defective out of the box. It's rough out here
That's pretty much exactly what I heard. Ended up just modding a really cheap Tronxy.....but ran out of time/space so now all my projects are sitting on shelves.
For cheap starter components, Creality is p good.
Eh, with this new series of Enders I feel like creality has nailed it.... finally.
Unfortunately (as I would love home metal printing to be a thing) it's not there yet.
If you've got an extra $500,000 to drop on a sintering machine, sure, it's possible. Of course, powdered metal is insanely toxic so you'll want at least another barn to go with it.
That’s actually an excellent idea, thank you. I had thought about it but I didn’t know if 3D printing was that far along and was a better choice.
Google showed me a few things it claimed could do small scale sintering at a $50k price point but I am ignorant so I figured I would ask. What you’re saying definitely makes more sense though, if I was to do precision finish machining a lathe would be a great choice, I have done little items with a small workbench Grizzly before and I’ll bet the tooling could cut copper easily enough.
People have been working on projects to make metal printers. Ran into this yesterday with a guy using diesel glow plugs for trying to print with metal. Who knows if it will pan out to something in the future. Sadly for stuff like that though, even if this metal 3d printer comes around, plumbing parts I wouldn't trust 3d printing.
Nothing consumer-level yet. Everything on metal printing is industrial, or very experimental and makeshift and DIY and dangerous.
My bad, corrected the video. Still working on the first coffee of the day.
I want all the folks interested in 3D printing to read this and grasp it. 3D printers are not a toy. They're an engineering device, and to do it right, your workflow will look like engineering: repeated failure prototypes, first working version, and several iterations down the road, a version that actually works properly.
A decent digital caliper has reduced failure of my prototypes due to scaling/design errors down to about 5-10% of all failures, I should never have started without one.
If your printing that many times to get a working print. You really need to calibrate your printer. I rarely if ever have issues printing parts with precise dimensions on an Ender 3. Takes a few hours but the results are worth it. Also hope you're using calipers and not just raw dogging it by trial and error.
My thoughts exactly, an ender 3 isn't going to turn Joe Public into a design engineer but you wouldn't know it from some of the hype printers get. Unfortunately its much the same as the "OMG guys learn to code! Do you code? I'm a coder, because I went to code bootcamp to learn to code the codes" crowd, you end up with people who can maybe get an Arduino to blink an LED using a library they downloaded but know the square root of fuckall about software engineering and then get frustrated when they try to do anything genuinely novel.
Problem is that when your model adjusts for tolerance but you also adjust for tolerance (or fail to), it takes a couple more attempts to zero in on WTF is going on.
Also own a KE, and this is after plenty of tinkering with DIY printers and whatnot. It's a really damn solid printer. Only thing I did with mine is add some threaded rods as frame braces since the gantry is a tad flimsy if you really try pushing the speed up.
