Comment on Do NOT buy Creality
discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoOh damn. I’m discovering they’re so much worse than I thought.
Comment on Do NOT buy Creality
discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoOh damn. I’m discovering they’re so much worse than I thought.
fluxx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
My only advice is - don’t give up. A good thing is there is a cheap and usually reliable way to fix this. Some combination of parts will work, but you will have to do a lot of research and/or trial and error. You will then be a lot more knowledgeable to fix your printer in the future. This is in contrast to buying a printer like bambulab, where everything works out of the box, but it will cost more upfront. I’ve already worked with a bunch of creality printers and know how to solve most of the problems, so I will choose the more open source and cheaper route every time, but it’s not for everyone, or even most people. You already have a creality printer, so it may make sense to try to fix it. But also, at one point, you may value reliability more than cost.
discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
No, I don’t mind replacing things. But how? Do I just buy a slew of different parts from random sellers? Creality parts don’t fit. I’ve tried.
fluxx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, tbh, I’m not familiar enough about K1, is the hardware open source? If so, can you compare the parts? If you have some vastly different model to the current one, perhaps you have a preproduction or an early rev? It may be that you need to convert a lot of it to the new style. I don’t know where you could ask for help, but some bigger community may help you better. Reluctantly, I suggest trying reddit, perhaps there, someone has gone into similar issues. At the very least, it may attract creality’s attention, and they may help you to avoid bad press.
discomatic@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Oh, my model is the current one. It’s the older ones that everything is tailored to. That’s the whole problem 🤣