Why I Threw This 3D Printer Out (and What I Bought Instead)
Some tools just want to watch your sanity burn.
This particular 3D printer — which shall remain unnamed (but rhymes with Antry Meganet) — was marketed as beginner-friendly, ultra-silent, and “ready out of the box.” Lies.
Three prints in, it jammed. By print five, it ghosted my layers like a haunted house. Then came the thermal runaway errors, unlevelable bed, and firmware bugs so dumb they made Clippy look like Iron Man.
🤮 What Went Wrong?
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Bed warped like a vinyl record in July
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Stock firmware: a spaghetti pile of spaghetti
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Customer support: one auto-reply and a prayer
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Z-axis wobbled more than my caffeine-deprived hands
I wasted a week. Maybe two. Then I yeeted it into a storage bin I now call The Garbage Section.
🚀 What I Bought Instead:
New printer: [Link to affiliate or dropship printer]
✅ Silent stepper drivers that are actually silent
✅ Open-source firmware
✅ All-metal hotend and a flat bed (praise be)
🧠 Tommy’s Take:
I’m not saying you’ll hate this printer, but if you enjoy randomly troubleshooting thermistors at 2am while swearing at YouTube tutorials, go ahead.
Otherwise? Skip the hype. Get something tested by actual humans.
🗑️ Rating: One flaming dumpster out of five.
