I’d just search YT or the regular interwebs for tutorials on designing compliant mechanisms in CAD (pick upur favorite software). I know Teaching Tech has done a couple videos on this

Orca slicer is a fork of Prusaslicer

Bambu firmware is closed source. I’m 100% happy with my Bambu, but that being said, Prusa makes amazing printers. However, like everything else, it comes with a price. Buying used is an option, just note you’ll ideally want to see it in person and printing before plunking down cash. As good as their printers are, you could still be buying someone else’s problem.

Ngl that’s fucking genius

Yikes… possibly the heat block threads are deformed after all the torching and tightening? I assume you’re using brass nozzles so this shouldn’t be the case, but I’m as stumped as everyone else now.

Any suspicion of the heat cartridge failing? Might work long enough for a pid tune but not be able to maintain temp? I’d also look I to the extruder, once you put the nozzle on its working much harder.

I don’t know what it is with ender build plates but they only seem to last about 30-ish prints on the PEI side for me, switched to the glass side and glue stick with moderately better results

We’re gonna need a bigger benchy

Oh, we all need to tinker…

Tempted to do both. As much as I hated tinkering/fixing/breaking my E3V2 and the absolute bliss of my Bambu, the larger form factor, and having two of them is… going to kill my wallet.

It’s “mostly assembled” in a flatpack. Gantry is one piece, verticals are one piece, base is assembled w/wiring complete, top is assembled. No enclosure panels yet, says they’re supposed to be available “soon after launch”. Just a ton of screws to put in. The frame is custom, purpose built, not the normal 2020 extrusions used in a “real” Voron build.

I only got about 40-ish minutes into Nero3D’s “livestream” (it’s 3 hours long), but so far one of his complaints is that it’s a proprietary “Bambu type” quick change hotend, and not something that takes existing nozzles

Yeah the further I got into his video, he seemed to relent a little, saying he didn’t know what they (Sovol) were doing, but they (Voron team) refuse to work with / endorse anyone in a commercial kind of way. His initial statement early in that video was that they outright declined it though. Guess that’s the problem with unedited livestreams

Oh gotcha. I don’t know enough about the project members.

I’m watching Nero3d’s unboxing stream, he’s saying that Sovol offered donations but the Voron team declined it. Says he’s on the Voron team, but idk if that’s true or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1DSXK5TmKE

Oooh… now the question is… build a voron, or wait for the Sv08 to become available…

Also, depending on the amount of contact area on the bed, you may want to try a brim. Taller items with a small contact patch can be prone to this.

I agree IF you know where it’s coming from. You could be (likely are) buying someone else’s problem(s). You lessen the risk by getting a higher quality printer (Prusa, Bambu, etc) but NEVER buy a used one without seeing it print firsthand

If you’re looking toward “budget” printers, the one I seem to see the least complaints about would be the Sovol. The ender v3 seems to have most of the v2 issues solved, but I still think creality’s qa is all over the map. Ideally, I’d bank that money and look for a better printer, Prusa, Bambu, Quidi, etc.