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I love 3D Printing. I enjoy building something from nothing and having it be useful. I know 3D printing is associated with a lot of waste. People think 3D Printing and visualise nothing but the waste. I tend to not print without purpose. I print to fix things that otherwise may be waste, and can be saved. I also print for Friends that have requests of things. I don't print for vanity and likes. I do know that the 3D printing community is filled with people printing whatever is popular on some of the bigger sites. I avoid this.

I own 4 3D Printers. 3 FDM and one SLA. The FDMs are mostly Creality with one AnyCubic. I bought most of these second hand to prevent E-Waste. I upgrade them as needed with found or new parts. My SLA is a Creality as well. It is small and I use it to print DND Minis and other minis.

AnyCubic 4 Max Pro. It's hot end isn't the best of quality. Extruder is not great either. Quality of prints suffers from the heat creep in the hot end. I am working on swapping out the V5 Hot end to a V6 from E3D. I need to print other parts to be able to fit the new version. It is all metal and should allow for printing up to 300C.

I was asked to update and setup a friends new to them Creality Ender 3 V2. I replaced the plastic extruder with a BMG Clone 3:1 Dual Gear, still Bowden tube but with a blue capricorn. A 3DTouch was installed. The bracket was printed on my AnyCubic. I built the firmware on my Chromebook and enabled a ton of new features for them. I compiled Marlin 2.1.x. I enabled things like Input Shaping, Bed Tramming, Linear Advance, and way more. I also flashed the LCD to get off the dumbed-down Creality interface. They really hide all the good features, and the basic Marlin screen keeps focus on readability.

My Creality Halot One. Fairly small SLA Monochrome Resin printer. I mostly use it to make Keycaps and DnD figures. While it has great detail, this comes at the cost of resin and the rinsing agent I use. I limit my prints to ones that require the fine detail only, and I never waste my rinsing agent. I filter and reuse.