Ender 3

No surprise there. The technology is just fantastic. Creality had (has?) a reputation for being a tinkerer's brand. I started with an Ender 3 Pro, and you could truly mod it in any way to do anything you could possibly think of. Then I got tired of tweaking and calibrating and wanted something that

I modded an ender 3 so much I don't think it could be branded Creality Now I have a P1S.

First step is to look up the pricing of a Bambu Lab A1 in your local currency. IMO, the target cost should be 50% of that or less (preferably much less). It's not 2019 any more and we're not competing against wildly overpriced Prusa MK3's. The amount of printer and ecosystem $300 buys these days is

So I just went through hell diagnosing my printer for this exact issue. The blobs are caused by the pauses, the nozzle melts the filament and creates the blob. On the ender 3v2 at least the fan that cools the mainboard is shared PWM with the parts cooling fan. Absurd design. Terrible. I had turned o

Not for me, thanks. I learned a lot from the Monoprice and Creality printers I started with, and they were definitely cheap, but I got what I paid for, and that included the need to do a lot of work and upgrades to get decent quality prints consistently. My Mk4 and Core One are workhorses, and produ

Check the extruder - stock E3v2's came with a plastic unit that was prone to cracking at the hinge where it's hard to spot. There are metal clones of the stock extruder but it's a design from the dawn of time and there are better options that don't cost much in the modern world. Also check the tip o

Is it worth trying to fix an old Ender 3? That is the $300 currency unit question. IMO it's worth it if you want to deep dive into the nitty gritty of printing like it's 1899 and learn enough that DIYing a Voron or Ratrig (or whatever) is not a problem. If you just want to print stuff and learn the

u/Malow is right - time and money can get these things running quite well, even by modern standards. First step is to look up the pricing of a Bambu Lab A1 in your local currency. IMO, the target cost should be 50% of that or less (preferably much less). It's not 2019 any more and we're not competin

The 3v2 is 6 years old. The Creality of yesterday is not the same as today. Pre-2023ish their printers were very moddable and repairable. These days they’re using a bunch of proprietary parts with locked down firmware. Prusa and Sovol are the main companies I can think of that are decent with repair

Creality firmware sucks. It was old when it was new, lots of nice-to-have options were hidden or outright disabled and they've ignored years of development since. Marlin has come a very long way in the 4? 5? years since Crapality wrote off these machines. Especially for bed meshing, it's night and d