RE: My Experience with Prusa so far
Although money was a factor, I also bought the kit because thought I would enjoy assembling it, and I wanted to learn more about the assembly in case of future troubleshooting.
I have assembled other kits but not electrical or mechanical items, and this was the most demanding. I had to pay close attention to every step. Every day I worked on it a little, over a couple weeks. Then I took another week at a similar pace to flash the firmware, tune, check belt tension, etc.
The manual is pretty good, but I quickly found that the paper manual had errors that were already corrected online. Also, the comments on each step of the online manual were gold because they alerted me to other omissions, mistakes, and fixes. For example, a couple times, when inserting rods into the printed pieces they were way too tight ... I could see I wasn't the only one and learn how to get past it.
There were several places where the manual wasn't clear and I had to reach out to online help, including a couple places where I sent them videos or pictures.
I thought many times during the assembly that anyone who is not highly detail-oriented could encounter a lot of problems during and after the build. And unless you work for Prusa assembling printers all day long, or have done a lot of similar work in the past, 8-12 hours seems like a pretty low estimate to me.
All that said, I did enjoy it, mostly! And it has worked very well.
RE: My Experience with Prusa so far
I bought mine in a kit due to it being cheaper, but also because you learn SOOO much about the printer by building it. Building it yourself really helps you when you need to troubleshoot. Disassembling the hot end will happen enough that it becomes easy, no real thought needed.
Now if we can only get some technology that stops the printer once it starts forming a blob or printing in the air without supports...
RE: My Experience with Prusa so far
I bought mine in a kit due to it being cheaper, but also because you learn SOOO much about the printer by building it. Building it yourself really helps you when you need to troubleshoot. Disassembling the hot end will happen enough that it becomes easy, no real thought needed.
Now if we can only get some technology that stops the printer once it starts forming a blob or printing in the air without supports...
well, there is this:
https://thespaghettidetective.com
RE: My Experience with Prusa so far
Mine:
- Bought the Kit for Speed of delivery, fun of build and price.
- Purchased late on the 17th
- Arrived 11am on 29th
- I got home at 1pm (kind neighbour dropped parcel round), got changed into scruffs.
- Opened the box and started.....
- Ate exactly the allotted number of gummy bears at each stage
- First print came off at 10pm (whistle)
Now one week later and I posted my first thing on (the other unmentionable place) [2020 / 3030 Adjustable screw feet]
I had an error ext. fan fail today half way through a print (while fan was still going) reset printer and went through setup again (error went away)
I'm learning how to 3D Print and enjoying every minute
- Largest thing I have printed: 162 x 133 x 90mm in draft print mode
- Smallest thing I have printed 2mm sphere, that didn't go well but at least I didn't waste much PLA
I worked from the hardcopy manual as my PC screen isn't conveniently near where I was building the kit, I did make a mistake at step 14 e-axis assembly, and ended up with 12mm of thread sticking out, checked out the forums and someone else had done the same thing. fixed it and all was well.