Topic: Solidoodle Press - Should I bother raising from the dead in 2022?
Hi. I see that nobody has posted in the Solidoodle Press subforum for a few years so I might not get any replies but I'll give it a shot...
So I got a Press when they first came out and had the same problems most people had... I guess maybe slightly better results than some, but I still had lots of prints that went wrong before they finished up, I never could get it to print PLA, and I recall trying to print a few marble-run pieces for my daughter that always ended up warped. I didn't have any real NEED for a 3D printer, it was just a novelty and learning opportunity, and after messing around with it for a while I just shelved it and went on to other things.
This year my daughter, now much older, is involved in a rocketry club with some of her friends at school and I thought I might break out the Press and see if I could get it working at all in case they wanted to print a few parts. My question to whomever might still be around is, should I bother? Did the community ever work out "best practices" tweaks to improve performance, and are there any upgrades I should make that are worth the money vs. just putting that towards another printer? I'm definitely trying to read through the forum and see how things evolved but I've got several years worth of things to go through so I thought I'd toss this out and see if anyone had any thoughts. Is replacing the hot end and/or extruder a no brainer in 2022? Any software I should look into besides the old soliprint program? Chuck the whole thing and move on? I'd like to get some use out of it but man it was frustrating back then.
Thanks for your help! I hope everyone's been doing well.