been self employed for over 25 years. I understand wanting to get your money's worth.

But trust me, time you spend worrying about buying a 3d printer, is time wasted that you could have been making stuff with it :-)

There are two machines in my house that will be replaced asap if they die. My tassimo coffee machine and the 3d printers.
Honestly don't know how I ever lived without either :-)

Although if the replicator clones ever die - I'll most likely strip them for parts and make deltas from the parts. Printed some feet out for a cherry keyboard last night.
0.1 layer height but 150mm/s speed ! did 4 feet in 20 minutes :-)

Awesome machines !