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I have enjoyed my Ender 3v2 but my extruder and hot end are acting up and I am ready for a more reliable printer. I like the simplicity of Bambu but it seems to come at the cost of customization. Prusa seems to be more open and extendable, but at the cost of increased complexity. What would you recommend?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Except that voron 2.4s are close to double the price. Not everyone has that budget.

Kits on 3djake which has decent prices normally are 1650€ for a 300mm voron

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A 250mm V2.4 is about 1200€. A trident is less than that and is more comparable to the Bambu.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where? I can't find one in continental Europe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Voron doesn't sell anything, you either have to source all the materials yourself or buy a kit. I bought a kit from formbot when I built my V0 and have been pretty happy with it. They also sell V2.4 kits and have a warehouse in Czech

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Go ahead and mansplain voron to me lol...

Of course voron is just a standard design, but in order to be comparable at all, and I mean even to be in the same discussion, to prusa/bambu it has to be a full kit including every single part, only needing assembly.

Sure you can build a voron for cheaper if you spends months searching for deals, suppliers, aliexpress parts, and printing everything yourself.

I will admit, I haven't heard of formbot, but that is quite possibly the best deal on a voron kit I have ever seen! Even paying an extra 200-300 for the printed parts, depending on supplier, that comes out to <1k€. That is a too good to be true deal. I will maybe have to buy one myself!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Get the functional parts over PIF.voron.dev for 110$.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Check out magic phoenix for voron kits. Good price with included upgrades/mods out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can only speak from the perspective of US available parts. The trident is a much closer 'competetor' to Bambu's offerings, so I will use that as the comparison. Since Bambu's offerings are 256mm^3 I'll compare against the 250mm^3 trident.

Note that there are some sales going on for the various offerings below, but the trident is only somewhat more expensive once you factor in things like ASA/ABS for the printed parts.

Bambu's X1c is $1,200

Bambu's B1B is $600

A LDO bom-in-a-box trident is $1,200

A Formbot bom-in-a-box trident is $650

I was able to print functional prints on my old i3 clone with two spools of ASA, so add $70 there. All I did to my i3 clone was tape together a couple of cardboard boxes to make a quick/dirty enclosure.