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[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Build a Voron!

  • rabbid Voron owner

Dig through my comment history and you'll see pros and cons of choosing to do so. If you like building and modding it's hard to beat. The build is pretty long, but you'll learn a lot.

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.

[–] SuperUserDO@piefed.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

I'll be honest. If it was me 7-10 years ago I would do it. Current me however gives away 3d printers to people (first one is free...) that don't fit my current needs. So for the next FDM printer it's probably going to be a Prusa Core One.