/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1697971

I went the full reprap way years ago and got someone from the reprap IRC to print the plastic parts and send them to me. I ended up spending more money than if i just bought a factory-made kit because printing a full parts set takes up a lot of time and nobody wants to bother doing it unless the price is tempting.

In those days the usual premade printer you could get was something like an Printrbot LC which was inferior to the designs on the reprap wiki, so it made sense at the time. Nowadays with cheap and reliable enough printers like the Ender3 you're better off just finding a broken one on eBay and fixing it for max cost savings. They're not complicated systems.