I still think that for the money, delivery/set up time and quality of print, the Creality CR 10 mini wins. Prusa printers are nice, but who wants to wait 5+ weeks just for your printer to be mailed and if you are just starting out you I would not want to sink $750+ for something you may or may not like (3D printing). Not to mention that you then have to assemble the whole thing or pay an extra $250 for assembly, not saying that they are difficult to assemble, but not everyone wants to do that.
I just helped a friend set up his new Cr10 mini. The printer arrived 2 days after it was ordered, and he was printing his first test piece after 30 minutes of unpacking, assembly and leveling the bed.
CR 10s also have limited to no amount of 3D printed parts (this is good), most of the plastic pieces found in the CR10 are injection molded (stronger/durable than 3D printed parts) and they have several parts that are aluminium that are made of plastic on the Prusa.
Don't forget that there is a lot of aftermarket parts for the CR 10, so you can upgrade your axis to linear rails and other high performance modifications and still be under $750 and most important, it prints very nice out of the box and has a nice size build volume.
You don't need to have ball screws, servo motors, linear rails and hold .0002" per foot on your bed to get good prints. I own a few heavily modified printers and my go to for daily prints is my Cr 10 mini. With the money you save, buy filament.
***I don't own stock or work for Creality, I just see many people over spend on printers.***
The filter and several other components for this bowl was printed on a CR10.
Hello R2R Members, This is my first post, as well as my first nano reef. (not sure if this belongs in the 3D printed or nano section). This whole project started when I found a nice, near mint, round bowl on its way out to the garbage. It had been a while since I least had an aquarium...
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