3D Printer Help - Beginner questions

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BinaryData your cool in my book. Here is an example of what I have done when mashing up gaming rigs with the 3d printing..



I drew up and printed out these cool 120mm fan funnels to channel the hot air from the cpu heatsink directly outside the case..



I love building and rebuilding and creating and making things better. And as such I have found freedom in open source hardware. When you do get your printer up and going, please start a thread here on what you make with it. This sounds like a really cool project that I would love to follow. Just because you seem to really like working with your hands and have stated that you built gaming rigs, I would just like to offer to let you browse through a couple of threads I have of the building and reworking of 3d printers. Because if you are good with your hands then you can save a lot of money and end up with a better printing machine than everybody else who spends so much more. Because in life skill trumps money.

The building of an ebay i3 (this cost ~$200):
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...d.php?t=269457
I started building my own 3 color printer from scratch here:
http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...d.php?t=270130
And there were a lot of mods that went down on that machine here:
http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...Mixing-Printer
And the rest of it's modifications and also more mods of the i3 can be seen here:
http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...twork-Printers
Then just because I have had so much fun reworking these machines so much and they just keep getting better so I went and bought the biggest printer I could find at the time, the Tevo Black Widow, and I joined a community of black widow owners and found a plethora of modifications for that machine that went down on the initial build:
http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.p...-250mm-X-300mm

If you like working on computers and building things, you might be short changing yourself spending more money on a machine that you wont get do have all this fun with. oh and the green I used for the pc case glows in the dark.