I love 3d printing, but for me its been more stress than making cool geeky stuff.
I bought my first 3d printer January last year, a wanhao duplicator I3 plus from technology outlet in the uk.
and external parts were constantly breaking, went through about 3 nozzles, a heating block, over a dozen fans and it only had a little over 9kg of filament go through it.
early this year, it stopped printing, anything. it would jam constantly, it wasn’t that the filament was slipping and getting blocked, or wrapping around the stepper motor cog or snapping and then running out of filament. the stepper motor just stopped working.
It would maybe work for a minute or so, sometimes not at all (not even when loading/unloading filament)
I replaced the stepper motor and the cables and the block bit that it all plugs into (its proper name eludes me atm)
After asking for much assistance on this forum and a few others I narrowed it down to being internal problems with the wiring, driver chips. motherboard bit in general.
NOW, here’s the kicker.
I ordered a second wanhao, same company, same time of year.
and it didn’t work out of the box.
they happily took it back and replaced it with what is now my 3rd wanhao printer.
but now, after about 3kg of filament, its run into the EXACT same issues.
The second printer is still within warranty, so I should be able to send it back and get a full refund for it, but what about the first printer?
are my printers defective strait from the factory, am I just unlucky as everything that could have gone wrong has in face gone wrong. Or is the wanhao Duplicator I3 plus just a really bad, cheap Chinese piece of poo thats not worth a penny?
