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My V1, one of a few in the Central Europe, sits shy in the corner now. 
Looks awesome, but that price…
Unless the build volume is up to at least 250 mm and it has a stock heated bed (I don’t see any mention of either), that’s a hell of a lot of money.
Yeah, it is a steep price, although I think @Brook_Drumm might have something else up his sleve. The bed is carbon fiber which is a bit weird, but it also looks like it can be swaped out, or flipped over. Just by looking at the pics. Those thumbscrews by the extruder make me wonder if it will have easily changable tool heads. Maybe a Blue laser toolhead, or a cnc router toolhead. Again, this is just speculation, but I know he worked on a small cnc spindle toolhead for the printrbot in the past.
I assumed that was to take the shield off if you needed to fiddle extruder/hotend; but you’re certainly right, we don’t have all the info.
Build area looks like it could be 6" by 10" by 10" or 150mm X 250mm X250mm.
@Tom_Nardi Yeah, thats probably a more likely reason.
@Ryan_Branch This architecture can’t handle any meaningful cutting loads from a milling tool along the bed axis. And unenclosed printers with blue lasers are idiotically dangerous, no responsible US-based company would endorse or sell that. Swapping heads for different nozzle sizes is nice though…
@Ryan_Carlyle I agree with you. The router he was playing with was a little brushless motor and small engraving bits. It would only be good for cutting balsa wood, foam, and cutting pcb’s. Nothing crazy, but good for the hobbyist demographic that would likely buy a printrbot metal simple. Yeah, those lasers are crazy dangerous, but I figured it would be do advanced users only. I could definitely see a lawsuit with that though.
@Ryan_Branch Anything over, err, I think it’s 0.5w? is illegal to sell in the US and EU without adequate safeguards to prevent eye/skin exposure. All the “el cheapo laser” strap-on reprap mods we’re seeing out of Russia lately are violating import laws. Plus insanely irresponsible… look at their demo videos and you see laser flare and reflections all over the place. Blue lasers in particular can cause skin melanomas.
You HAVE TO have a full enclosure and reasonable safety interlocks (eg “responsible user” keyswitch) on that kind of system. A dedicated laser controller is smart too. Any true “advanced user” who can do it safely is ALSO advanced enough to know it’s a stupid idea to use Marlin and Printrbot with some janky cobbled-together laser shield box. .
I don’t think it’s a stupid idea if you already have a printrbot. You could easily make an adjustable shroud that surrounds the laser and the beam down onto the surface you are etching. That’s in conjunction to wearing safety glasses as well. I always thought those import rules were for Laser Pointers, and not Lasers in general. Most laser tubes, even by US companies (Full Spectrum) use tubes imported from china.
@Nathan_Walkner Nice!