Has anyone actually gotten a Press to work?

I put in mks board and 12864 lcd with drv8825 driver, replace heating element to 12V, and 12V heated bed, 12V power supply.

for whatever reason, the step motor and nozzle have tinny virbration at 24V that no calibration can get rid of. switch to 12V system smooth it out. maybe I should simply replace the step motor.

My SD press came with dead mainbord, it is sale for parts for $70 plus $25 shipping. I use those 24V power supply and heating element on my other printer and they work well.

Unlike Da Vince 1.0 and Da Vinci Jr. 1.0 case, which is very stable and block most of the noise, SD press frame and case is made of plastic and funcion as boombox that virbrate and amplify the noise, have to drill and add more screw to make it stop amplify the noise.

if I have to find something good about the sd press will be the front door and LED light. I convert it to a laser engraver and it turns out much better than use as 3D printer. It is very quiet when use as laser engraver thanks for the way laser head moves and the front cover block most of laser power and protect your eye while internal LED help you see the progression of the burning.

Compared with SD press, Da Vinci 1.0 is a much better printer, flash repetier and replace the whole wire harness is not that expensive and time consuming. upgrade to e3d clone and glass bed will make it a great printer.

So, the bottom line is, you can make SD press a great laser engravor with minmal tweek and mod.

No printer gets good results IMHO straight out of the box. Good results is a subjective term, I have seen many prints the maker thought was good but I found terrible. They all require setting changes that differ per print and material as well as printer model. Even the same model from the same manufacturer will require different settings.

You will need to level the bed, adjust the first layer height, might even need to adjust feed rates and so on. Printers are only adjusted to work from the manufacturer. Not to work well however.

Right however there is a certain level that could be considered acceptable out of the box wit the standard set up things like bed leveling, and initial start height, then considered exceptional with tweaking.

Was any Press in general terms deemed acceptable? Acceptable meaning, even layers, no banding, round holes, round cylinders, no blobs.