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My first 3D Printer should arrive in ~10 days, anything else I need to buy or get before it arrives? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml

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I'm pretty excited, I ordered the Kobra X, along with 9kg of various colour filaments.

I'm wondering if I'm missing some stuff like bed glue, a scraping tool or things I haven't even thought of. What do I need in preparation?

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's ok mate, the first printer experience I had was at university trying to coax a bricked Makerbot they had back into working... Not a fun time haha.

If you get into the hobby you won't stop at just a single printer, especially if you learn how to maintain and repair them. Then you'll be able to buy a cheap second hand one from a more open source company if that's something you want to do.

So that'd be the next thing to look into: how to maintain and repair your printer and what consumables, spare parts, and tools you need to do that.

If it's an open frame printer, have a look at building/buying an enclosure for it, perhaps with an active heating unit and carbon + HEPA filtered ventilation for the more noxious filaments.

Then after that some method of drying your filament. And either combined with or separate from the drying: air-tight storage for your filament.

Some stick glue (pritt-stick) will be useful, as will a bed scraper, an alternative to stick glue would be something like cat's vomit (a brand of a liquid glue for printer beds, there's a few alternative suppliers around)

Welcome to the hobby!