Back on sale. Ordered one yesterday. Seems to be good value for a basic fairly plug and play corexy printer. There's a few alt firmwares around, such as Forge-x. Possible dealbreakers: expensive nozzle replacements, smallish print bed, 280 degree max temp.
Get it, this is prob the best printer you can get at this price point and then some.
APL15 for non-ebay plus members and a smaller discount I think. You can sign up to plus as a free trial, or for like $5 for a month if you want.
For the price, this is insane. Highly recommend this printer if you're happy with single colour. All the multi systems are far more expensive.
This thing is great for plug and play printing, good speeds and features.
Totally. Friend got one as their first printer with no prior experience and is loving it.
I used 3d printer back in High School days. Want to buy one to print random stuff
Would it be worth getting a second identical one…?
Where I’m at also.. lol. Love this thing. Bigger bed would be nice though
Any decent 3d scanners?
They're called wives
define decent? - I have aCreality Lizard i'm offloading, it's great, BUT…….scanners aren't what you think they are!
Hint, if you can't / won't use CAD, no interest in 3d point clouds, then don't get a scanner
Sounds like good value, and low effort, but medium size build plate?
Was thinking maybe a little small to do boardgame inserts :(
(better than my little Monoprice though!!)
How do these compare versus
Prusa Mini, MK3
OR
Bambu X1 & P1
significantly cheaper, and can't do multi colour……
if you don't know if you want / can use a printer, just get this.
once you know what you want, then look at more expensive things
they all do printing stuff at the end of the day
(i own 6 3D printers by the way, my next one is a P1S + AMS, or …..)
Ok but this or the Bambu A1 then it’s the same price https://au.store.bambulab.com/products/a1-mini?id=5787986793…
you've linked the A1 mini, which is tiny….
so your choice is - print larger stuff ok,
print small stuff well *(and possibly add multi colour in the future)
Bambu is well known for 'plug and play'….
if you're a complete printing newbie, the Bambu is the way to go!
Great printer love mine, !
Been wanting a 3d printer for over 5 years i have so many things that i would love to print.
Got one from the last deal, its awesome. With basic materials like PLA or PETG and Orca slicer its print and walk away.
Print size is too small for the price
I've had this for a month or so now, thought it would be gathering dust by now but I'm still enjoying using it. I'd say after you get bored of printing random stuff you find on printables, etc, take some time to learn a CAD program (fusion 360 for example) and start making some functional stuff for around the house. It's quite fun and satisfying to make stuff that you designed. Use Orca slicer too. Filament wise, I'm still pretty clueless, the eSun PLA+ filament I got amazon has been performing much worse than the PLA I got from Jaycar for half the price. It's a learning process!
Got one with the last deal. It's been mostly okay so far, but I have had a few failed prints with "host error" messages, with different models. Not sure what caused it, and in touch with support to see if there is something up with my printer or who knows.
The prints that have worked have been great though. OrcaSlicer is super easy to use, but I'm still trying to would out the best support settings. Most things have been important, print, walk away.
Did you send to printer via wifi or ethernet?
Ethernet, WiFi wasn't even configured. The prints are uploaded to the printer either way though, so not sure that's related. And it's updated to the latest 3.1.5. tempted to try the klippermod firmware, but it appears that might've been abandoned by the people working on it and has fallen a few versions behind.
I got this from a previous post, then got the filament from the recent Sunlu deal. Couldn't recommend it higher for a noob friendly solution.
Hmmm, had been waiting to pull the trigger on a Bambu A1 or A1 mini as a birthday present for my Son. But this looks tempting for the price. Bit unsure which is better for a young teen complete beginner?
This is amazing.
Coming from a Ender 3 V2, this really has been "set and forget for me". It took maybe 20 minutes to setup before first printing. Changing colours is easy, and it's fast!
I would be chuffed getting this for a birthday gift.
The official slicer I find a bit less feature rich than cura, but that's fine.
The A1 or mini probably has the edge on print quality (in most cases) and ease of use. Bambu really have their profiles dialed in and those printers have some great new pressure sensing tech that help get great prints without tuning. If I was a teenager or parent of one, the Bambu would be my pick.
The bambu is better (I wouldn't get the mini though, too small)
BUT the incremental improvement is not heaps compared to the $$$ ($500 vs $327) - the big differentiator for me is the ability to add AMS to the A1 IF you feel he would go down that path later.
If it's a first printer and you don't know if they will continue to print or end up in a corner gathering dust, i'd get the Flashforge.
In my opinion (excluding AMS) it's about 90% of the bambu A1. The other factor is the A1 print bed is slightly larger.
How are these printers at making those small plastic RC car cogs and gears?
Not great. It can be done but they won't be very clean or last very long.
depends on 'how small' - realistically though, if you're asking this question, the answer is 'crap'……For those types of print, you need slightly more advanced materials than standard 'PLA'….and you'll need very good printer tuning to get the smaller details needed on small cogs…
a Resin printer CAN do what you need, but again, you'll require more advanced 'engineering' resins to be able to hold up to the forces present in RC car gears…
either printer can do something as a quick patch job for sure, if you're happy running off a few dozen cogs and replacing them every run (if they even last that long) then go for it
or, if you're happy to use a mould which you use for a metal lossy casting process, then go for a resin printer.
Got one, been wanting a 3D printer for ages. Pretty sure it will pay for itself at some point. thanks OP
For some reason, I am never able to apply those APL codes on Ebay. I got $409 instead $327
What's wrong with the code?
its for ebay plus, you can have a free trial or pay $5 for the discount apparently. I used the APL15 or whatever - regular discount that made it $347.65 delivered, because I am more lazy than I am cheap
APL15 doesn't work either.
The colour model of this is just hitting the market.
Might need a few reviews to see what it is like.
https://au.flashforge.com/products/ad5x-3d-printer?country=A…
That AD5X looks great, first batch sold out. I just got the 5m as my first, but that AD5X may be my second one haha
For anyone interested the enclosure kit is finally back in stock after being sold out pretty much everywhere I looked and is $65.99 delivered directly from Flashforge - https://au.flashforge.com/products/ad5m-kit
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New to 3D Printing. What are reviews and what is recommended?