Outside of getting my start in 3D printing with the Deezmaker folks, this community has seriously helped me become an established maker. I’ve learned so much over the time here that I left working for Cartoon Network to open a printshop in my hometown. It’s been a wild ride & thank you all so much, yet I have one more favor to ask.
I wasn’t too sure where to post this but my former middle school bought this Solidoodle & they are having trouble getting it to reliably print. I’m weeks away from opening my printshop and I do not have time to tinker on an unknown machine.
Would anyone like to buy this from them so they can get one of @Diego_Porqueras_Deez 's Bukitos? You’d be helping an awesome cause as I’ll be facilitating a toy building program for the school by building the machine with the kids.
Banana for scale. I have not run this machine beyond seeing if the board turns on (it does.) It hasn’t been used beyond a few calibration prints. Comes with two rolls of filament. No price yet, but the best offer would certainly help us get this program started!
Sorry if this breaks any rules for the community. Thanks again.
I know that Solidoodle gets maligned sometimes for being a problem-laden machine; but my understanding is that it’s actually a decent performer once a number of fixes are installed. I certainly have read reviews of people saying they are happy with their SD’s.
It sounds to me like a little bit of work might go a long way to improving its reliability?
That is true, but the teachers & I do not have time to install those updates and understand those issues. Many of you here are more than capable to make this a project to get running reliably but not us. I know the Bukos very well after having worked for Deezmaker a short time & now pre-building them for new makers around town. I can give a lot more to the kids if we use a machine that I have readily available in-house.
I agree with Joesph. They are a good bot. I would be interested in knowing what problems they are having . I have been running one for about a year. I would be interested to try to help with any problems if i could.
Ben, just a thought. I’ve seen a fair number of SDs that the extruders e steps per mm were way wrong on. That’s would make any printing fun :-). Might be worth a quick check to see if it’s the problem they were having before passing it along
The main issue now is that I’d be more than happy to trust it to a fellow maker with SD experience to tweak the machine (with the school’s permission) yet there’s one issue…they have a set budget for projects like this. The SD was last year’s but, mostly due to the misconception that 3D printing is plug and play (lol), it was left in a closet after 2 months of a university intern working with SD support to get it working right. I don’t have a concrete list, but their issues sounded mostly firmware/software related. I won’t hide the fact I know SD’s need to be tweaked from day 1, but that’s why its not right in an educational setting for children.
Now they have that same budget again, and the school has enough to buy one that I can easily teach, use & repair if we can get a decent sale of this SD. They really want a Bukito as its a portable design that can be moved from classroom to classroom. They’ve felt rather discouraged about 3D printing till I offered to help out.
The big reason we are inclined to sell it instead of getting it working right is because all parties have very tight budgets & time is our most valuable cost right now. I’m doing them a favor by building the new bot for free and train the math teacher to operate it. I just don’t feel comfortable promising that on an SD due to my inexperience with the design, let alone getting it printing well.
Edit: Let me also emphasize, I’m incredibly busy. Like the “wow, did I just eat breakfast or dinner?” kind of busy. I wish I had the time I did 9 months ago to dabble into infinity on a new machine.
