Curse this hobby!
And it’s ability to make sure you have 1.5 printers worth of parts by the time you’re ready to make your printer…meaning you’re almost able to make that second printer…but man, its X to order Bearings, and only X+10% to buy 2X bearings…so by the time you’re ready for that second printer…we’ll you’re more than halfway to printer number 3…
And after not too long… You become @Alex_Lee
Just remember the support group meets on Tuesday in the basement of the community center. Next week is your turn to bring the cookies.
@Mike_Miller You need to find a few like-minded friends and do a pooled purchase. A local meet up is a good place to float these ideas.
I coulda used that 24 months ago when I started.
had someone said “don’t bother with a delta, she’ll just break yer heart and piss ya off” it would have saved me a year.
Not in love with a delta huh?
Wanna do some trading? I want to play with more deltas and have stuff laying around to complete a 4th or 20th printer…ha 2-3, that no addiction sir.
You don’t want the delta parts I have un-scrounged. It’s pretty much some 3DR printed parts and some draggy balljoints that caused the lion’s share of my problems. Everything else has been reused.
2 extruders, 4 rolls of filament, dozen bearings, 10’ of smooth rod, 3 ramps, 3 arduinos, steppers, bla bla :/. It’s a hobby though 