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03-14-2015, 07:47 AM #12
£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.Last edited by curious aardvark; 03-14-2015 at 07:55 AM.
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