Comment on Recommendations for an aspiring newbie
Knossos@lemmy.world 1 week agoQidi is a new name for me, I’ll put that on the list too. Lots of people are recommending the Core 1. 🤔
Comment on Recommendations for an aspiring newbie
Knossos@lemmy.world 1 week agoQidi is a new name for me, I’ll put that on the list too. Lots of people are recommending the Core 1. 🤔
franzfurdinand@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I have a Qidi XMax 3 and that machine has been extremely dependable. It’s the first one I’ve ever had where I start a print and walk away.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 week ago
X-Max 3 gang! I have one of those too. I’m only mildly annoyed that they didn’t extend support for their filament changer to it, but that didn’t exist at the time I bought mine so it’s not like I was expecting in-machine multimaterial support anyhow.
I have had to replace the heat bed in mine when the thermistor in it failed, and that is not a separately removable part. I also had to replace the larger of the two fans in the print head, the latter of which was like $2 from China. The heat bed was a little more expensive, a over $100 as I recall. I’m not too broken up about it — I do a lot of printing with my machine, even moreso now that I’m using it for my dinkum hobby business.
I had an OG X-Plus before that which was also quite dependable and needed nothing during my ownership other than replacing worn out nozzles. I gave it to a friend of mine and it’s still running strong.