/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1791320
>Is a homemade printer likely to give better results than something like an ender 3
If you do it right, yes

>without spending more effort on tweaking than could have been spent tweaking an ender 3
Nah, the effort and money to get a homebrew printer to the level of an Ender 3 ist quite remarkable.
If you want to go beyond the Ender 3, the effort would be pretty high. The only reason to get into this would be for the fun of the project itself.
To pull this off you would need a lot of experience in 3D printing first to be able to tell what error is caused by what issue

>>1791334
>getting a cheap printer will lead to spending more money.
I disagree.

>upgrade ender to most popular upgrades like bltouch
not neccessary at all, once you got the experience to adjust it by eye during the printbor skirt in the beginning. I use different bed heights for different materials to get perfect adheison.

>dual z axis
Might be a good idea. But again, the effort required is highly questionable. Just adjust your v-rollers as good as you can, it'll be fine with single z.

My two cents on this:
The stock Ender 3 can get pretty good prints out of the box. This is enough for 98% of what people do with 3D prints.
If you want to sqeeze the last perfect bit out of FDM you need to go crazy effort. Do a fuckton of testprints and adjustments. Just not worth it imho. I have never done a testprint.

95% of problems people have with their prints come from a) wrong printer assembly b) funny slicer settings they found online outside the filaments recommendations c) filament issues d) using anything else than buildtak as a beginner e) funny mods that are actually a downgrade

Pic related is my first 3D print ever on a stock ender 3. It came out almost perfect and quality is like this ever since. It takes some time to get every screw right on the ender but thats all you need. Same applies for my stock CR-10