I have a Vector 3 with various problems and I am a Toolmaker Engineer with attributes in many fields, be it electrical, electronic, mechanical et cetera.
I have emailed Eaglemoss and the Dbfactory for replacement parts which, haven’t materialised and now I am being fobbed off with, an automated link to the Eaglemoss Starter Guide.
I started having problems with poor hardware, screws like cheese with, holes drilled off-line, around Issue 53 of the part works subscription, the microcontroller is a dude and a cheap chinese copy of the original.
The print head extruder head, filament tube snapped in two on adjustment(Issue 68), I have had enough.
The instructions are all over the place with, some missing, having to tear down the build to add parts is ridiculous, leading to stripped threads and chewed screw heads.
Plastic parts are warped, dented Lexan and scratched surfaces collecting dust, due to their static properties.
The copied Arduino boards look like they have been soldered by a shaker, no wonder the boards short out, the cramped space doesn’t help.
The list goes on, of one person I know who’s, print head doesn’t get a higher enough temperature, to melt ABS which, is the reason for the hood!
I ordered 2 subscriptions; One for my daughter and one for myself.
I get correspondence like email in my name and the parts are mailed in my daughter’s name.
Hence, we only get ‘one printer’ which took week’s to explain to them but, they weren’t having it!
One printer it is, mostly in parts, as it is a failed builds.
Eaglemoss, Sebastian Conran and Dbfactory should be ashamed of themselves.
1. For sticking their head’s in the sand.
2. For poor execution of a flawed design.
3. Communication virtually non-existent.
4. I bet they’ve done a runner.
5. Comedian’s fodder for their next punchline.
6. Not only any sane person’s Christmas List.
7. An expensive door-stopper for the loo.
I am off to lodge a claim through the County Court.
Hopefully, it will fund a 3D Printer of English design and build by me.
Have a great day.
Regards
Andrew
