Thank you Thomas Sanladerer for your Printrbot Simple Metal Kit series of video.

Dat_Chu · January 10, 2015, 1:07am

Thank you @Thomas_Sanladerer for your Printrbot Simple Metal Kit series of video. I am now a happy Printrbot Metal owner (built from Kit).

Those of you who owns a Printrbot Simple Metal, what do you recommend as the first few upgrades?

John_Davis · January 10, 2015, 1:14am

Congrats! Not a Simple owner, but I’d go for a heated bed. ABS is fun! And challenging. And fun!

Dat_Chu · January 10, 2015, 1:19am

The machine is in my office and I have a tiny baby around. Plus it doesn’t have an enclosure so I don’t think I want ABS. but I heard the heated bed helps pla print too.

John_Davis · January 10, 2015, 1:19am

It’s true. I use heat printing PLA and nylon too.

Jim_Wilson · January 10, 2015, 1:33am

First upgrade should be a fan shroud, putting the air directly on the nozzle is best. Too much air is bad but that stock fan shouldn’t be too powerful

enhydra · January 10, 2015, 6:57am

I would go for this https://www.youmagine.com/designs/extruderknob-for-printrbot-simple-metal

Dat_Chu · January 10, 2015, 7:01am

That’s a cool item Kurt. Gonna print it next.

enhydra · January 10, 2015, 7:05am

Perhaps you’ll add the dampers? https://www.youmagine.com/designs/damper-for-printrbot-simple-metal

Dat_Chu · January 10, 2015, 7:09am

Why do I want dampeners? Just for sound purposes?

enhydra · January 10, 2015, 7:12am

Yes, it worked for me.

Dat_Chu · January 10, 2015, 7:16am

Cool. Do you have any recommendation to fix the raft being too strongly bonded with the object problem?

enhydra · January 10, 2015, 7:20am

No, by now I’ ve never printed with raft. I use them in school so I have to make the printing time a short as possible.

javierymirna · January 10, 2015, 5:47pm

I can’t wait to get my printrbot plus!! I owned a 3d cubify and makerbot 5th gen and what a fiasco!! So I guess u can use the hot bed for PLA??

Jim_Wilson · January 10, 2015, 5:48pm

You can indeed, for PLA its more for convenience, you can stick very small parts to the bed without tape or spray more easily. For ABS it is more of a requirement.

javierymirna · January 10, 2015, 6:00pm

@Jim_Wilson that’s great Jim! I hated the glue, and the blue tape I dint mind cuz it saved me the hustle of cleaning the glue… But with the heated bed and PLA I wouldn’t need any of those

javierymirna · January 10, 2015, 6:03pm

@enhydra I sow a video last night in YouTube, it was a school teacher, he said that adding a dampener spacer In Between the motors and the mounts will decrease the sound by a lot??

Jim_Wilson · January 10, 2015, 6:05pm

Dunno about the printerbot metal but it was absolutely true with a Makerbot cupcake, it also had large flat surfaces that vibrated making lots of noise.

javierymirna · January 10, 2015, 6:09pm

@Jim_Wilson man… The makerbot was a nightmare! It was so load! I couldn’t run it at night… But it would print with out getting a filament jam… So it’s not like I was gonna let it run at night successfully printing

enhydra · January 10, 2015, 6:35pm

@javierymirna Did not try it. But sounds good…