Hi, I 3D print a lot and was thinking about getting a filastruder. Is it worth the money or would it just be better if I built one using a site like instructables?
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My thoughts on it as i have been arround this topic a few times
i mostly looked at this one: Lyman / Mulier Filament Extruder V5 by hlyman - Thingiverse 144
i wanted mostly to recycle scrap prints but also mix with pellets.
I did several calculations to see if it was sound from the money perspective.
No matter how i turned it the cost of building the extruder was so that i could get arround 2-3 years supply of filament on reels for the same money
to recycle scrapt i had to add the cost of a shredder and it did not help on the math
to make matters worse getting the parts Lyman picked are very hard given that he is in the us and i’m en euro country
to be fair it was only the barrel parts that was hard… the psu etc and printed parts are no issue…
all in all i scrapped the idea after giving it a weeks thought
and if you print PLA only its not bad to just throw bad parts in the bin.
Hey Highly Adaptive, I would look more into protocycler as it offers more things at a lower price (700$ to be exact)