A reprap?

how big is the build volume on that?

the anet is a prusa-style printer, the biggest difference between the prusa and the corexy is the fact that the bed is stationary on the corexy

Yeah

Well the anet is just a carbon copy of the Prusa i3, but the frame is acrylic

I'm attracted to the Anet for a while because of how large the community is for it

yup and it may be tempting to get an aluminium frame

but i think it's better to just either leapfrog the whole community for corexy (which is growing in popularity) or learn everything you want on the anet and eventually upgrade to an original prusa i3

Yeah

Or the mk2

or mk3 or mk4 or whatever it is by then

the multi-stepper extruder head thing for quad filament is a big motivator but it does seem like an incremental step

anyway yeah anet a8 is great

you should just go for it. worth the price.

don't print ABS and you won't worry about heatbed issues

Just would cry at the thought of waiting so long for it to come and then sometihng being broken

don't be an idiot and the board won't catch on fire

Would just replace the heatbed

it only took 2 or 3 weeks and i ordered it just before christmas

the problem isn't the heatbed so much as inadequate cooling and sizing for the amount of current that runs into the heatbed** circuitry

since PLA doesn't require the heatbed to be on, that

is a nonissue

Well

I do want to print ABS at one point

I want to use it for RC parts

I've seen people just put panes of glass on it

gears?

or aesthetic components

Nah, probably quad stuff

Quality, I don't really care tht much about

ok yeah boxen are easyish- i had some bowing on some initial prints but it's a calibration thing

Yeah

i haven't had much luck with gears yet unfortunately

but such is the life of 3d printing

lol

for now

its assembled

but somethings wrong

will continue on weekend

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