How bad is a $95 3D Printer?? 

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Funnily enough, HP, Canon and Epson all manufacture 3D printers...

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This.

I have 2 Ultimaked 3+ and they are no longer able to print basic models... I tried everything to fix them... I am going to buy some chinese models instead

Ultimaker top of the line? No. Prusa is.

@@DesireAnimations well ulimaker is top price

@@DesireAnimations Check the prices?

law Biffington was Gonna say the same thing, in the Netherlands I can buy an ender 3 for €180 and it’s a great value for you money. Good quality printed and you learn al lot from it. Would definitely recommend it!, !!

Exactly, I can't believe it wasn't mentioned given that one of their employees has a CR-10 that was used

For some 100$ is the difference between bankruptcy and a new hobby.

thats cool and all for emericans but in australia your $200 printer costs 333 dollars (before the $80-$100 shipping), the $96 costs $160 so 160+100 is 260 and 333 plus 100 is 433 so in while in more fortunate countries (ie ones that are treated like they are the top dogs just because all the youtubers come from there) 3D printing is more accessible, in waterlocked countries it is better for us to buy cheap and move to the states when we are able to

@@xXx_Oshino_xXx If the difference between someone and bankruptcy is $100, that somebody probably shouldn't be looking to spend it on something non essential. Just because some have $100 dollars doesn't mean you have to spend it- especially on a printer with poor print quality and minute build.

yea the cool part about fdm printers is that you buy a cheap shitty one you can mod the shit out of it. Ender 3 is a community favorite and the mods just keep coming lol

WATERCOOLED

Get your LN2 pots ready

It's actually a thing btw. Making it print consistently at higher print speeds. _Edit:_ and watercooling the hotend and control board (stepper drivers in particular) would help with that. Some people even RGB their printers, and I'm not even kidding.

How the hell do you have both of the top comments

Ka_tto wdym

CMDR lJITimate totally recommend it for anyone into 3D modelling of any kind! I’d been playing around in 3D for years, but then I went to university and had access to a range of printers from low end filament ones up to fancy resin ones and it was a total game changer. Got a second hand one for home and seeing real, solid versions of my models was so amazing

Another RU-vidr CHEP reviewed this printer and although it is terrible at PLA it prints flexible filaments insanely well. So much so he calls it the new creepy crawly machine.

I think it is pretty neat for someone that does modeling like miniatures for a wargame or train set. Printing things like barrels, cleaning them up and then painting them. Hundred dollars is not a very steep price for an experimental tool and a first step though that door.

@@SirNarax if you want to throw away 100dollars you could paypal them to me aswell

@@sekazi Anything without a cooling fan is terrible for PLA and you can install a standard cooling fan on the board. This is actually good printer for kids/school environment if there is someone with a bit of experience who can do to setup.

Christo Garza, listen to this man. But seriously dont go out buying on recommendations of a PC tech youtube for 3D printers. Take a look at makersmuse, chep, makeanything, and others. They are more of an authority on this subject

My Ender 3 printed a benchy similar(if not better) than the ultimaker shown in this video, only upgrade made was a glass bed for a total of 150€ printer

@@maledetto1221 right? The benchy of the ultimaker was extremely underwhelming compared to results on my Ender 3. I love LTT, but this video is quite misleading and unencuraging for peoplr looking to get into 3D-printing.

Just got an Ender 5 Pro last week, it's amazing to get into the hobby

I got an ender 3 pro and with a glass bed and 2kg of filament it cost $380 cad it is such an impressive unit and it has been working so well. It even came with enough filament to print most of the recommend upgrades.

@mery lopez Yup. Even though I already watched it too

@Miguel Madrazo were*, not where

@@Your_Evil_Femboy no, it’s were. “since you we are nice to me” doesn’t make sense.

@@Your_Evil_Femboy That's... no, just no

@@Your_Evil_Femboy you couldn't of been much more wrong

Bradley Childs , i never got flexed on so hard

I was also thing the same thing

No love for the ender 3

Ultimaker has nothing compared to those 30X prusa machines they have hidden in their office right now (see their twitter)

Lmao literally what i was about to say

Maker's Muse Nice channel 👍

Angus beef

flex on linus and tune it to print a better benchy

I was really hoping I would see you here in the comments!

WOW its Angus!

got mine for 130 with coupon

micro center has the ender 3 pro for $209! you are correct the enders are amazing

We have a few of these at my school along with an array of CR-10s printers and i can VERY strongly recommend these

Of course. In germany you'd get a Renforce RF100 (good little Printer) for around 170 bucks (take away from the store). They're expensive (got mine used for 25 bucks, Muhahaa), and to be honest: Its a uncomplicated printer. Load file in Cura, slice it, plug it, print it. The RF100 sucks (lack of part cooling) at overhangs, but the Benchy turned out waaay better than that from Linus. Twiddling around with the settings and flashing a better Marlin Version (2.0.X) and the RF100 really came alive. ^^

@@jensharbers6702 Check out the Tronxy XY 2 PRO. Got mine new for 150€ from eBay. It´s a essentially a improved Ender 3.

what settings do you use?

@@isaacwong3883 It’s been so long, two years, that I don’t remember. I did experiment with different print speeds. For this unit, it’s best if it’s a slower speed. It’s a great “learning printer.” And a lot of fun!

Buy an #Ender3 - period

@@pearcomputers heyo can you brief me on the 3d printer space? What's the best 3dprinter to get for prefferrably

@@pearcomputers Damn you beat me to it. I live by it, I'll die by it. It's cheap as far as 3d printers go and really high quality.

@@mataskart9894 ^^ buy an ender3, (not Pro) direct from Creality. There's nothing close, ur buying a $500 professional cnc frame for less than $200. Watch every assembly video you can (watch the left upright doesn't trap the case lid ;o) but it should take you an hour, with a coffee - the community is massive too. that's not an endorsement - lol - but there is a reason all 3dp owners should also buy an ender3 and most have. Pros: everything - Crea's support is good too. Cons: You need to be happy building stuff to own a 3dp and have some patience. But if you've ever used a screwdriver without harming nearby pets and have at least 1 working limb, or friends that do... you should buy and ender 3 :D it's not the only good printer, just the best. By far for the money... (this is my opinion not Pears -lol) xxPD

@@pearcomputers I wish I found you a year earlier. I went for a cheap Anet. As they say "A cheap person pays twice".

He even owns a prusa at home

@@officer_baitlyn he has like 30 of them, tho granted not all at home 😆

*Triggered*

For them, $3000 is in the "budget" category.

If yalls want a budget 3d printer buy an ender 3

at fist I saw "how good can a $100 DC printer be??"

roast me

hmmm

@@gabexyz. r/whoosh

@@gabexyz. please tell me that you are joking, please please PLEASE.... make me believe theres some hope in humanity and that our IQ didn't drop.

Heck, my Longer LK4 pro cost just a bit more then twice this and has a fancy UI and silent stepper drivers. That said, having something in the 'super small' form factor that isn't overpriced isn't a bad thing.

@@DFX2KX Well I'd be better off buying a Ender 3 V2 (which i already own) that has a even better ui, community firmwares and is more reliable

@@leonardobassi2440 or even a Voxelab Aquila for 179$, it took what the Ender V2 had and improved it and made itself cheaper

I have an Elegoo Mars 2 Love it for making my own models

@@JRockThumper I just got one and have been using it for the past 2 days. Absolutely love it. Amazing prints right out of box after leveling the bed.

@oscar francis he even owns a mk3 himself

I3 mega is amazing for the price. I like it even better than my ender 3. But not by much

Yeah, it is kind of weird to consider a $5000 machine as a close cousin of this printer. As a more-or-less gold standard, sure. But this would have been way better if they included a printer in the few hundred dollar range.

I think I spent 150 for my ender 3 and it prints better than his ultimaker.

@oscar francis I Laugh. Linus Owns a Prusa Mk3 You can see it in the video where he sets up 100 BT speakers in his house.

It's also very good for modding

*add a glass bed, the aluminum warp is a pain to level

I recently got ANYCUBIC I3 for 150€, works like a charm

agreed

I had a ender 3 with a factory defect and a buddy of mine had the same issue... figured out it's worth the extra money for the ender 5

I laughed so much at this comment

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or put a fan?

so... if its an i3 mk2s which costs $600 then that will be $18K

@@williamhuang8309 they cost 750 dollars as a kit now (for the mk3s) :(

indeed! i'm in the market for one around $500, but would be interesting to know what i'm gaining over $200 printers and what i'm losing over $3000 printers...

Much as I love LTT there are entire channels dedicated to 3D printers. 3D Nerd is a pretty good one

Thanks for the recommendation

To be honest, you can find many other more experienced channels that already has done that (not me), and has credibility with 3d printers. Some of those channels you find are still pushing affiliate links down your throat, but some aren't.

@@Vlican then you should talk to your local resellers to find their arguments, then look at us RU-vidrs for our experience, the truth is often in-between 😁

shut up complaining

my first printer was the MP mini v2

Wait... IT'S FROM CREALITY!?!?!?!??!?!??

@@ItsMavicBrah Love how he said "Basic Home Enthusiast ones" and showed an Ultimaker 3. Like yeah that aint basic. Ive noticed LTT really likes the use the Slight of hand technique and slighty lie in every argument to make the entire situation seem greatly different to what it truly is.

My Ender 3 Pro is smiling lol

@Fk Gooogle I picked up an ender 3 pro from amazon for $230 with free shipping but I hear it's even cheaper now. they had a deal going on for getting a basic setup for $150. so far most of my prints come out fine but I have had a few bad ones which are probably associated with my slicer program mixed with printer settings. the stock test prints on the other hand come out amazing.

@@postalpacifist88 I got a v1 for 150 and 2 spools of filament. Maybe that was the deal your buddies were talking about. But mine isn't pro 😕

also there's the ender 2 which is even cheaper

@@benjaminchaves6047 but ender 3 its so bad. and the Ender 3 is so good for the $$

My i3 mega do a better job then linus his ultimaker....

Ender 3 works perfectly for me, took some tinkering and tweeking the slicer settings (cura) but it works brilliantly good now. Near flawless Benchy with clear salmon skin tone's due to the lack of TL steppers. And that for twice the price of this piece of garbage. Can advice on printing alot of improvements tho :p. (fan directors, fillament guides, fillament roll holder, vertical axis stabalizer, cable reels/holder and some other stuff for the looks.)

So we're not going to talk about Anet A8

To be fair it's garbage compared to the Wanhao Duplicator clone I got years and years ago from Monoprice for like $200. And that Wanhao clone was garbage compared to the $750 Prusa MK3 I got last year. So this thing is beyond garbage and not even that low of a price compared to stuff you can get that works much better.

Both of those looked aweful compared to a $99 printer, haha, that expensive one was not tuned well at all, significantly worse than what my old machine will do at 150 to 200 mm/s, like that’s just extra sad... The $99 printer is the Tronxy X3 with a $0.25 upgrade. And the old machine I’m referring to is a Prusa i3 clone (Anet A8 looks like a significant upgrade over it and those are $79 currently) but heavily modified over the years and tweaked/customized to my needs.

@@jakegarrett8109 Yeah, there's honestly no reason for this printer to exist except for bored enthusiasts with extra who want something different and new to play with. Him pushing this as a good intro printer is just setting a ton of people up for failure.

Another cultured person, you have my respect "crealitygang"

Can I get a link at that price point?

Or an Ender 2 for £90/$110

@@mintynuggets watch for sales. I've never seen it quite that cheap, But I just checked a price charting site and it bounces around between $180-$200 on gearbest. Add to that you can sometimes come up with coupons for those sites $175 wouldn't be out of the question. right now it's $199 with free shipping on gearbest, $189 on banggood. (140€ is about $150 US)

@@mintynuggetsJust type Ender 3 on google, search on gear best, ali express, amazon and so on. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ender+3 This is the printer

I think prusa used to be cheap but once it started getting sales it went up in price

I'm very happy with my CR 10 Max, considering all of the problems everyone seems to have with their printer.

@@andypandy5781 original prusa never where cheap, but they are one of the best end user printers out there. They are part of the community nearly since the start of diy 3D printer and they have a great support and manual as they know what they are doing. You pay that much as you pay for the inovations they do, too. Everyone else just uses their design and know how and sell it cheaper. Sure an ender-3 can print as good as an prusa mk3s, but the qc is a lot worse from creality, support can be hit or miss and you never know when they make changes and tell no one about it. A ender-3 needs a silent board of some kind, and theirs is overpriced. Creality machines are only that good, because they have a giant community behind them since the cr-10 and "implemented" the core addons and safety changes the community made, mostly without even credit to the original designer of them. And there was a giant battle till they made the stuff public, as they are required to as the designs and software they use are open source. We have Sexycyborg to thank for that.

@@xl000 I'm waiting for the White Knight project to roll out the CR-30 conversion kit.

Play cs, stop watching 3d print vids nerd

How bad is a dollar 3d printer?

@@nusiel how bad is a free 3d printer?

@@avramitra was great until it fell apart

@Maddox McCarthy Yes this.

lmao

Petg and abs are actually both stronger than typical blends of pla. However that does not mean pla can't be used for anything structural, quite the contrary.

@@ikillfh844 actually not. Watch some of CNC Kitchen's videos comparing material strength, regular PLA is consistently significantly stronger than ABS and PETG. It is more brittle, yes but it takes more energy to break PLA parts.

@@hotdognr12323 this is true on paper but from personal experience Petg handles shear and tensile stresses better than pla, although this could be down to the adhesion provided by my printer.

@@ikillfh844 It is probably due to the different properties, it feels different to handle, and ABS and PETG can in some cases survive being overloaded to some extent, where PLA would break due to its brittle nature. But my point was that it is factually correct to say that PLA is stronger, and that LTT doesn't really know how to use a printer properly.

Omg thank you so much for saving me the time to type this like that benchi 🤮🤮🤮 it is such a shame how mis used that fine machine is (the ultimat maker ) honestly I feel like he should not do these videos well unless he actually knows what he is talking about

“Yeah, that Source Engine, from The Stanley Parable”

Honestly I'm amazed it works at all. Unity is not whatsoever meant for this..

Unity isn't really meant to make games lmao

@@Topyy Yes, it is. It's a game engine. Who told you that a _fucking game engine_ isn't meant for games?

WTF me of the past ? Am I brain dead, of course I know Unity is a game engine, I'm a fucking game dev. I think I had a stroked trying to say that Unity isn't GOOD at making games or something

Same i have been using my ender 3 for the last 2 years still going strong my first and only 3d printer and still dont feel the need to upgrade yet and have learned prety mutch everything about this printer. Its almost like when you own a car for a long time and know everything about it and dont want to replace it lol

I have also had an ender 3 since launch and recently got an ultimaker S5 and in all honesty the ender 3 has a better print quality on the same settings

ender 3 is bae

@@gardenguy357 BAE!

these guys dont know much about the printing world lol

Because it's crap compared to prusa. Compared to this $100 one it's better but it's pretty easy to hear

They actually bought 30x prusa mk3s , and are using them in their office right now to make face masks. (See their twitter for clips :) )

i got an ender 3 pro for sale for 180

I love my ender 3

I'm still waiting for as 3D printer where I can just melt the damn coke bottles to get my filaments from.

YAS QUEEN, it's the best budget printer, after 1 year, upgrades and different nozzles, it still runs like a dream

F

Just bought mine hope I can set it up no issues. First time setting up and using one

I have it too, it is great

also there's the ender 2 which is even cheaper

Ender 3 is great. I haven't had problems with mine

That's cool!!

... and after some upgrades that you'll learn over time, you can do ABS, Carbon Fibre and other goodies....

yep if you want to dedicate time and effort to tweak stuff and reprint parts ~100 euro printers are nice. I started with Tronxy P802M a clone of a clone. and now the quality of prints puts a lot of name brand ones to shame. i did replace a lot of parts and even added auto leveling and a server running on ubuntu that works flawlessly. now thinking of rebuilding the whole chassis and adding heated chamber. And then maybe il add RAMPS board. but at that point it will be mostly custom printer and cant really be called a tronxy/anet

if you dont have the willpower to read and to learn how to customize hardware and firmware etc. then i would not recommend printers bellow 200$. buy some prebuilt and properly calibrated one

C C why the hell would you bother with a ramps board, get an skr

Or get a used one or DIY One.

I know someone who got ahold of one through Banggood for 110 bucks. That's only 20 more than this crap.

The Ender 3 is absolutely perfect, have it myself. Prints better than our Uktimaker 2+ in my old school with its uneven printbed.

linus already has a prusa at his house

I bought an Ender 3 for my sister's son for $120 when it was in offer

Ikr, wtf?? I never got such bad print on an ender 3.

Ender 3 xs is great comes with several nozzles and a glass print bed

@xd pperfect What tuning? Ender 3 is just readying a plane buildplate use cura and go. what tuning? the stringing ect. tuning I never did and I print miniatures for tabletop

@@xXTheBl4ckC4tXx Yeah Cura is just awesome with the creawsome mod now integrated without any tuning, even with magic numbers, thats why so much of the discussion about hardware is just plain stupid, My Ender 3 with only a simple metal extruder kit I had to buy because the old platic one broke, bad luck I guess, produces benchys that are running over even good calibrated, multi-grand expensive machines. Even back when I didnt use the mod at all und just had a pretty much stock profile from Cura, it has done amazing things.

Maybe they do, maybe they don't but, the only thing we can be sure of is that you don't know which side of the number to put the dollar sign on. Does that man we should try to shame you as well?

Lit

Also, e steps

'Dies' or get excited? Wink wink

@@WigglyWings After the small penis comments at Linus' roast, maybe a glimmer of excitement.

sparkyenergia she was just kidding we all know Linus packs an 11 incher

it does & that's adorable

@white To make the same part in steel, You'd need the molds, a milling machine, steel sheets and a hydraulic press. So at least 4 persons for it all, and hours to make a full set. In plastic, you need the molds, one guy to check it all, and you make tens of them in minutes.

@white Actually, some do. The first of the two printers they recommended at the end, the Monoprice MP Select Mini, uses a sheet metal frame. The company they've cloned it from, Wanhao, uses sheet metal to construct all of their printers and it does indeed make for a more rigid, better printer. Prusa also uses sheet metal for the frame of their i3 printers. If you're interested, check out 3D Printing Nerd, Maker's Muse, or Thomas Sanladerer. They're maker channels that actually know what they're talking about when it comes to 3D printers.

@white For 5mm steel plate, it's still going to be orders of magnitude slower than plastic parts. Deburring alone would take a while.

I kinda miss the repstrap days. Slap together enough of a gantry out of erector set, lego and your wife's cosmetic tools to squirt out the parts of a Mendel.

I actually did that when I was building my AM8 kit

Oh god, I remember that. The articles were hilarious.

Yeah, the more I think about the "bootstrap" nature of this little printer, its easily worth the $100. If you were to try to build a repstrap to get started, I doubt you could beat that price by much, if at all.

Hey I've got a Longer LK4 which I think might just be a kinda clone of the U30

How is the U20? I would like to have something with that print volume as I would be making mostly structural parts

@@ccricers I can recommend it. I print in PLA, ABS and PETG and it works well (of course for ABS you need an enclosure). I do mostly fast prototyping for my cars and motorcycles (the last one I did is yesterday, I 3D printed a caliper mount for my CB Twin in order to adapt a modern hydraulic brake). I printed Linus' test bed for PCs, I printed parts for car interiors, replacement parts for home .... The big volume is definitely a plus.

Can you print a pp ?

I saw one other comment about it

Or my Ender clone the Geeetech A10. Got it for 160€ and is running perfectly for a few months now.

Literally every other comment mentions the Ender 3

Nobody else gonna mention how every other comment mentions the Ender 3? Anyone?

last night it was $79, sadly didn't have enough to buy it, but I wanted to since it's so cheap

@@Shaggyfauvorite didn't have $75?! Poor ass bitch lmao!

@@Flyingboots1 some people have higher priorities than throwing money at a printer, on a whim. Like, I dunno rent/mortgage, food, car payments, etc. Perhaps they already spent their "play budget"

@@cwalke32477 like I said, "poor ass bitch"

@@Flyingboots1 Rude

And that has a huge community available for support, modifications, and inspiration.

MICHAL_C900, indeed... listen to this guy

Out the box? No. With the right mods? Yeah. Hell, I still haven't gotten the autolevel mod situated and regret not just doing the mod that speeds up adjusting the bed instead.

@@InfernosReaper I own ender 3 and i changed only two things glass bed for around 15$ and the stock tensioning arm for a 3d printed from thingiverse

@@michal_c9007 Auto-level mod is why I couldn't afford the glass bed. I though not having to be *as precise* with leveling the bed would've been the better move. It wasn't and now I'm just kinda stuck making do until things get to where I can order what I *should* have. Once I get that to work and get the other upgrades, it should be a pretty sweet setup

hahahha

amazing

sugoi

Well I think prusaslicer is better than Cura and the issues are largely the printers fault. But you are right. An Ender 3 is the best cheap option.

A lot of the problems are definitely their slicer settings, I'm using cura with this printer and I'm not having any underfill problems. The only issue is the lack of part cooling.

@@itxi I would agree with that

Cura is nice for tree supports but is so much slower than prusa in terms of rendering and print time

@@ps3customgamer I will be honest, I have not actually worked with prusaslicer, but at first glace it doesn't seem to be nearly as "tweekable" as cura. I suppose it may be better if you are using presets for stuff, but I prefer defining all the temps and speeds myself.... which is why I was a little confused when you said prusa gives better print times. It's possible that you are making this comparison with the default settings in cura (?). I don't know about prusa, but in cura, all the variables that determine print time are adjustable by me, so I have them dialed in to as fast as it will print and still give good results.

Would PLA be better than ABS for "Structural Components"? Ive yet to buy a 3D Printer so all my experience is with more "Traditional" manufacturing methods. O.o

@@grayeaglej if you're looking for strength you want PETG. ABS is rarely used nowadays (although it does have niche uses). Most FDM printers can print PLA, PETG and ABS.

ender 3 for 150€ is also quite ok but please not that plastic thing to throw away! =/

Iavor Hristov watch the video and stop getting triggered in the first 20 seconds

@@Authan65 no, no, hes got a point

I honestly liked the rest of the video, but it is a misrepresentation of the medium. If this is your first exposure to 3d printing you'd think "Wow this printer is 35x cheaper than the beginner models others sell!"

@@Yavorh55 Yes, exactly!

Very true

So is the ender better your wording has confused me

@@cyrusvile6622 im actually looking for a cheap 3d printer, what are the downs of creality ender 3?

@@Ulvorskets I just got a v1. It's pretty darn good. But I think people opt for the v2 because of the firmware updates. I think it has better steppers and ui. Idk there's plenty of comparisons out there.

@@cardboardtruck1009 it is in many ways: it has a heated bed, 235x235cm bed, part cooling fan. it can literally outperform an ultimaker 3 out of the box.

Actually, I clicked today because I didnt have time to watch yesterday when it was uploaded.

They still let users believe it works if you tweak it more

No wonder something was off when I clicked the video, before I clicked it had one title, when I started watching it was different.

*swing out! lulz

“Basic home enthusiast” *Shows ultimaker*

weebles ABS is better in that application especially (impact and shock, and ABS is typically 4x stronger in impact than PLA), also it handles the heat much better. The Shuty/Gluty I assume you are referring to is designed fairly heavy, so either should be fine, if it’s just Armalite lowers then those things should have very little stress on them (they are just a catching a handle and holding a magazine basically), so you could make them out of very weak materials and it would still be fine.

@@jakegarrett8109 Depends on what you're doing, really. ABS has issues. Best choice is a good nylon. At least for firearms. ABS is just too finicky to really be worth it for a lot of stuff, honestly. Though most designs are built with PLA in mind, anyway, as I understand it. At least, that's the case for the glock lowers, and as I recall the FGC-9

The River Acis yeah PLA is the “easiest” starting material, and since the point of 3D printed firearms is to make it as accessible as possible, then it’s typically engineered to use the compromised material. I haven’t had much issue with ABS on my machines, I take into account shrinkage with basic scaling (like 1% etc). For my newest printer (one I had 0 rolls of ABS through), I found that simply cutting a cardboard box with a hole in the middle for the nozzle to move along the rail and letting it sag at the ends basically made a decent enclosure, so instead of a box it just acts like a drooped parachute trapping in the heat and lifts as Z travels up, that one I did fine at 90c heated bed (textured surface magnetic flexible bed), my old machine on glass I used 110c on the bed with washable glue stick lightly applied but removal was quite a pain, haha, I had broken a few glass beds trying to get those things off, haha! I think Nylon might be more difficult than ABS, but I think of ABS as extremely easy since it’s been so reliable for me, and once I set it up, it’s good for years, haha, the hard part is when I have to change things going back to PLA...). So not finicky, but like every other material you need the setup correct (for PLA it’s fans on the part, no heat. For ABS I’ve actually done some no heat by accident on my new machine with textured plate and it somehow worked, which blew my mind). Oh the other reason for not using ABS is due to machine cost, many basic printers don’t have heated beds (most do now, but 5+ years ago it was actually a big feature to look for), so if you had to use it you’d significantly reduce the people that even could make the item.

My campus has some Ultimakers for students to use and they only allow PLA printing because it produces no health hazard.

OK it's some months later but ... I got an Ender 3 Pro end of October 2020 for about 150€ from the big "A" (No, not the Avengers! Try again!). I think that little extra money is well paid. Admittedly I wanted this one more for some tinkering and getting some experience in the 3D-business at last. I am still waiting to get a reasonable resin printer (missed out the first Saturn-batch). Until I get one, I will keep on tinkering with the Ender. It's quite nice. And yes, there's always a bigger fish in the pond. But for the beginning, the Ender will do.

@@erebus1964 if you get the ender a bit dialed in and you build it with measuring lengts, straight corners and so on, it can compete with a prusa mini, also stop with finding and installing "upgrades" that are useless, or *thinkering* i mean what some do, put the extruder on top so it is a direct drive but they dont want to buy a hotend so it still has bowden tube in then you just made the x carriage way too heavy for the single z motor and the print speed is half of the original. only upgrade you need is better springs for the bed, aluminium extruder and after a year a blue capricorn bowden tube, after that just make prints with it

@@FoxSock well english is not my native sorry. Also he Said that he will never stop thinkering, that is just stupid and those are the people that eventually make a mistake and break something or short something out and then come on Facebook to cry for help or complain on a company because its a factory part that broke

Kai Sörensen, yes. And maybe also a lower print temp if you are already going with minimum layers time and slowing down the printer

True thought about the same here.

Me: skips 40 seconds

Guillaume DEBREGEAS. Yes indeed. It is just not good under long term stress paired with high stress levels and it is just not good with temperature, but i dont think that for regular use PLA is unuseable

PLA's not something I'd want to use for certain applications, but it's good for a lot of basic stuff.

Got em

i think this was prerecorded

@@zebrad it has to be

Yea but I don't really think it's meant for hundreds of projects at that price point. But I mean it's good for just $95.00. 👌

This never looked fine, though. None of the prints I saw him do were even close to passable. And this is with a team of people who know, sometimes, what they're doing. This is a fun toy for an enthusiast with money to spare to play with as a lark. It's not good for anyone's first printer at all. They'd just end up frustrated with a $95 paperweight and 3 yards of melted globs of PLA.

@@justme002 The description on this vid and Linus' tone was basically saying it is fine.

@@umbra1016 I know, but it's really not. This printer is literally hot garbage.

Agreed!

Your comment would be relevant if this was a review or guide video. That should help you feel better about the video.

@@akira3871 Hmm.. so what is it?

@@bainsonic The video was to answer the question "How bad is a $95 3D printer", which they did indeed answer at the end. Think of it like this. Your friend test drives a car that is super cheap, so you ask him "so, how bad was it"? He replies "the window won't roll down but it seems to run well, it'll get me back n forth to work". He didn't give you a full review of the car nor a guide on how to drive it. You asked the question (How bad was the car because everyone expects a car that cheap to be a piece of crap) and he answered it. That's what this video was, most people think that a printer this cheap has to be bad, all Linus did was answer the question.

the video is content, neither a review nor a guide- it's literally something you sit down and watch and don't take away anything- just watching content to pass time- and that's why It's one of my favorite video's .--.

Tho this printer is good for nothing else XD

dhimant tewari. Artificially inflated prices koch koch NVDIA

Having bought this model of printer a couple weeks ago i totally agree with this statement. Im not sure i would even recommend it as a teaching tool for kids since the system theyre designed to use for slicing is so different from most other 3d printers in a way that makes it less useful for learning the basics. That said-- I dont hate it. It still gets the job done. There are just plenty of other printers out there at a similar price point that seem better. It's not trash though.

@@rustybuckingham it's nice, just uneconomical. Crea's are a 1 hour build and teach you a lot about the pro-cnc robot you just built. Parents and any tutor will gain far more, a clever child can probably build one. And you'll own an Ender 3 :D gettin that Brucey grin already, they'd be ridiculously awesome for $300 - they are less than two.

@@rustybuckingham monoprice mini is ace too, they're 100 bucks... but only if you need to carry it about... e3 has 20x the print volume.

I highly recommend the ender IF you already have some kind of experience with 3D printing.

@@barracuda6817 probably fair, but can 3dp be recommended at all without assuming some mechanical/diagnostic skills, or the desire to gain them?

BOB Soup love my ender 3

That’s so awesome!