I bought my model D used for $250, if I ever sell it I’ll turn a profit :P

I started maxing my Roth Ira out when I was earning $10/hr. Avoid spending money on things that don’t literally matter and save for the things that do. Pay attention to where every single dollar/pound/Euro/shekel goes. Stay out of debt. Keep drug/alcohol use reasonable. Most of the time folks who are concerned about retiring/money have no idea how much they spend on what. Saving for retirement is easy once you start doing it and get used to it, but you need to start early and you need to invest in the stock market. Avoiding chronic illness or accidents or long periods where you aren’t earning income are probably necessary too. Staying out of legal trouble is probably necessary as well.

Have you cratered your tip recently? I was having lots of problems similar to yours that were solved when I put in a new tip

I couldn’t shower with my eyes open for weeks because of Fire in the Sky, I was afraid I was gonna see an outline of the aliens behind the shower curtain.

“Fail early, fail often”

I feel like getting fed up with an Ender 3 is a rite of passage among this community that I am more than glad to skip :P

I have zero experience with other 3d printers. So far I’m pretty impressed

Ah, i see what you mean…

I looked it up and I swear there’s already a beefy connector there, but I might have missed it. I’m not home now but I’ll check again. Thanks for the tip!

Be careful, if we keep talking about triggers in a 3d printing forum the ATF is gonna show up

The more research I do that more I like the sv06.

This gets dangerous once you make semi decent money though. Like why would I take public transit that takes an hour to get there for $2.50, when I could just take a cab that costs $25 and only takes 30min to get there.

Like, sure…if making $50+/h one can justify it. But one could also instead save $23.50 for the piggy bank by taking the bus. And the 30min extra is not time one would have been at work getting paid anyway (unless your taking the bus/taxi to work I guess and actually gain 30min of pay).

That’s when you start calculating your hourly wage once all your livings costs have been deducted. Once you amortize your housing costs, car, food, retirement, student loans, and whatever other bad decisions that you’re still paying for every month and figure out your hourly wage AFTER all that it’s a lot easier to keep a level head.

Doing this when you make $12/hr is much too depressing though.

What is a good example of a brand that has parts vs one that doesn’t?

Dont expect much support from creality,

I’ve been running Fedora Core on my laptops for years and my cell service is tracfone…support is for the weak :P

Don’t even get me started on the 4 contact points for balance/ leveling.

One feature I definitely want is auto-leveling. I hope it softens the learning curve at least a little bit.

This doesn’t seem like too big a deal.

what makes a sovol or elegoo better than creality? I just get so overwhelmed because they all look pretty much the same and seem to be priced the same too

I’m very comfortable doing CPR

if I have the z-offset correct for the first layer

How do you figure out the z-offset?

Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg