/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2585417
I have an old Tronxy P802M that's reaching 6 years old, that son of a gun, hoping to get it restored.
It's been barely operating (maybe ~5 times in the last 3 years), and for the last year it's been completely unused inside of a garage.
Got dusty and dirty as shit.

It was shit quality when I bought it, and it's even worse now, but I'm gonna fix it, Heavens be my witness.
Even in the first two years of ownership it:
>fucked up bed, needed to change surface by buying aftermarket plate
>one of the connectors overheated, melted, and needed to re-solder with an aftermarket one
>dozens of clogged nozzles
>belt tensioners fucked, replaced with zip ties
>shitty zip ties holding everything together, had to replace those
>power connector wires low quality, snap off, had to replace
Still using all original servos, original extruder, and original everything (other than replaced components.)

Yesterday I cleaned it, realized ANOTHER connector broke, and going to solder a new one on tonight.
Had to disassemble entire extruder to remove blockage.
Re-stripped power wires because old ones became nubs.
Hoping to at least get a print going today.

Also, need to find some sort of fume / waste plastic collection, 'cuz MUH HEALTH and MUH ENVIRONMENT, and I don't want to produce more garbage / waste than it's worth.
So, gotta build a fume enclosure of some kind (not sure if wanna vent microplastics gas outside, or going to use some sort of carbon pad to soak up the waste), and want to recycle the waste plastics.