/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2764042
Looks tidy, congrats!

>>2764188
>>ender 3
NTA but
>What are usual costs after purchase and use?
USD 150ish for the printer, depending on where you live could be more or less. Prima fascie it doesn't need much to start running.
>Is maintenance and refill expensive or relatively cheap?
>refill
Rolls of plastic filament are about USD10-20 per kg (in Freedom units, one thousande and five hundrede and fourty and three grains of wheat taken from the middle of the ear per dollar or two) depending on where you live and there are some other less-frequent consumables like nozzles and hotend cartridges.
>maintenance
When something breaks, take the opportunity to upgrade them for better options. For example, if (when) your hotend starts leaking all over, upgrade it for a better version, I swapped mine for an E3D v6 and a bimetal heatbreak.
>What do you usually do with yours?
Curse at China, curse at the elitist bearded retards from Prusa who won't make entry-level printers accessible so hobbyists have to resort to China, curse at myself for not buying a Prusa, print upgrades for the printer, and now and then some keychain fob or missing chess piece.

>inb4 but that sounds like an awful amount of work
Get a Prusa
>inb4 but they are too expensive, isn't there something in the middle?
Sure, be ready to spend almost as much as for a Prusa for something not really better than an Ender 3.
>inb4 Fuck that, I'll make one myself
That may be unironically the best choice if you're ready to learn.