The Vector 3 3D Printer and Education

[Kreator01]

TBH I don`t have that sort of money ready to hand, other things take priority,Kids, cars, Food etc, so this is the easiest way to get one. Not everybody has a money pit.

[curious aardvark]

£300 ?

So take the £7 you're currently wasting on the magazine each week, put it into jar and in 42 weeks you can buy A better kit and start making stuff.

You've already committed yourself to spen £700.
How is saving £400 of that and getting a better machine 'having a money pit' ?

You really haven't thought this through.

Actually it's only £268, so it's only 38 weeks. Although I suppose if you throw in a couple kg of pla (some decent stuff for £13 a kg) - that would bring you back up to 300.
During that time. Download sketchup and openscad, cura and slic3r, watch a bunch of youtube videos, follow a bunch of 'how to' tutorials. And come christmas you'll be like the rest of us trying to see how many presents we can print this year :-)

So the money pit requirement is costing you £400 less , no lump sum necessary, getting you a better printer earlier and giving you just as much info and training, without having to find shelf space for a bucnh of magazines.

I would also suggest you buy a decent book. But that's just because I like books and needed something to read while I was waiting 9 months for a makibox.

I'm not slagging the vector 3 off for no reason. It's just a bloody awful way to go about becoming a 3d printing person.

[Kreator01]

Each to his own really, all well and good in theory, but often never works in practice.

This the way I and quite a few others are going so enough on this please.

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[curious aardvark]

lol
(more rhubarb)