69developer
USA
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Is there anyone interested in doing a community buy of a 3d printer for user PTP.
He has contributed so much in these forums.
Imagine what he could do with his own 3d printer.
Depending on how many people will help would determine the price for a 3d printer.
If interested please state how much you would donate. Optional, suggest 3d printer.
Thanks, Keith
@69developer, @ sorry to hear of your troubles, family trumps all so everyone will be patient.
Hi @69developer I am very sorry to hear about your loss. I think many of us have been through this, so we have somewhat of an understanding of your situation.
I think we could all debate the type of printer to get etc but a lot of us here just have cheap $200-$300 prusa i3 clones that we purchased in a kit from China and assembled ourselves. The good thing is anything that goes wrong with the printer we know how to fix it because we assembled it. Some amaizing builds have been built with these including complete inmoov's and as far as I can tell the main difference between a cheap prusa i3 clone and a $2000 3D printer is the price and having to assemble it.
When ptp gets the printer I am sure he will want to build something so he will need servo's, sensors, actuators etc. He may also want flexible filaments, color filaments etc as the need arises.
May I suggest, why don't we just send the balance of the paypal account to ptp and he can spend the money on the printer of his choice and then use the rest for the things he needs?
I second @Nink's suggestion. It will be next to impossible to get a unanimous agreement on which printer. Give him the money and let PTP decide and start having FUN!
First to @69developer I Send you my condolences.
@ptp has asked for advice and opinions regarding which is best and what to get. Many users with many different models of printers and a lot of hours of printing have replied. He received a lot of information. When he is feeling well and is able to be back, I feel he should be sent the funds to buy what he wants. After all, he will be the one it's for.
Ok, team, I'm back for now at least. - still updating
Here is what I have come up with:
CR10S - 2560Processor with correct heat capacitor. CR10S - Anycubic glass plate setup CR10S- Wire Extensions CR10S- Spare Nozzles - various sizes .2 to 1mm CR10S- Solid Bed mounts CR10S- EZABL - auto bed leveling CR10S- Spare hotend assembly CR10S- Capricorn PTFE Tube CR10S- 3 stepper anti-vibration plates CR10S- 2 x lovejoy z-axis couplings
3D Solutech Filament PLA 1.75mm White x 2 Black x 2
Atomic Filament PLA 1.75mm White x 1 - Extra tuff
You better add a bottle of aspirin to that list. It was fun getting my printer set up and ready but at least for me I pulled out a few hairs before it was all done ... lol. I kept postponing the first start up as I was really worried that the nozzle was going to come crashing down into the glass bed ... lol.
It looks as though you are doing your homework on this too, it's nice of you for doing all this!
Bump:
Did this ever happen ?
I agree with Herrball the CR-10 has been plagued with issues and in my opinion is not an out of the box newb printer. I have a tevo tornado and it’s a cr10 knock off, still a lot of fiddling to get it to print correctly.
This has been over a month now and my suggestion would be send the money to PTP and let him make an informed decision. Like today.