and its $500 but very skimpy design PLA only with no way to close out cold air
not true - where there is a will, there is a way. 
have seen a lot of people using Ikea end tables to make enclosures for similar printers
]]>My point about the hotends is that Atom's offers no advantage over a dirt cheap Lite6. The E3Dv6 does not have a PTFE liner in the hot zone, so it is different (and better) than the Atom design. The other items you pointed out (general shape, etc) offer no actual advantage in use.
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Acrylic is brittle full stop. Bigger part more chance to crack.
The Atom hot end is not just a titanium thing with ptfe. what I do like is the ceramic heater and The position of the termistor + the general shape.
I have the ed6 all metal (not the lite) and there is the PTFE liner too. So what yours argument there ?
I'm not compairing the big box to the atom. Not the same ligue.
But again the price is hard to beat (big box). I'm considering but need more data.
I have 2 printer that I bought oversee (I live in france) and all had problem with shipping. one was a kit; the other was build.
I realy fear for the transport.
More I have not seen user printed part. and can it print 24/7 ? ultimaker can do it, atom too.
Do anybody know any good Core xY kit ?
]]>Titanium offers no benefits at all when you slide a PTFE liner down the inside. That hotend is functionally equal to a $35 Lite6.
]]>I have seen a youtube review of the aldi... good printer but not in the same cat as ultimaker and the atom 2
I have been contacted by the atom 2 sale manager, who offered me a very tempting deal...
to preorder and beta test the atom 2.5 (heated bed+ dual feed extruder as well as slight design changes)
for 1800$ pretty sweet. i have seen the ultimaker, and recently learn that there hot end have part that you have to change evry x print (some insulation stuff) that is a big no no.
I did not get the formlab for this exact reason. So no ultimaker ...
I will take the atom 2.5 but they ship by mid june, so with the saving (about 800) I'm looking for someting that will till then
print in 0.1 easly.
a heated bed
20x20x?? print surface.
may be dual extruder?
and can print 24/7 or close
The bigbox seem to fit the bill, but acrylic is meh, and the printing 24/7 is unknown.
the robox is not tall enought, and the all automated is kinda sucpisious for me.
the duplicator look nice but I cannot take both the atom and the dupli...
I realy looked and the atom seem to be a one of the kind. but what convinced me was the video showing the hot end assembly.
that a very sexy hotend... Titanium....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPo0glnRIy8...
I still have a week to decide though.
]]>and its $500 but very skimpy design PLA only with no way to close out cold air
not true - where there is a will, there is a way.
have seen a lot of people using Ikea end tables to make enclosures for similar printers
]]>The ALDI printer (the grocery store ALDI)...
The ALDI printer (the grocery store ALDI) is a relabeled WANHAO i3
LMAO are you kidding? Aldi also sells 3D printers with the electronic junk isle too? they should just stick to food items, same for Savealot stores that merged with Deals used to be Dollar deals, now both stores share products lol. too funny
]]>I don't have hard evidence but based on my machine and the fact that all the parts a Wanhao supplier sales will fit it, my guess is that that the company that actually makes Wanhao is the same one that makes CTC. I say this because proprietary parts that they use are identical and fit like a glove.
I think CT'c, the original and not the CTC the copycats that sold under this CTC umbrella got tired of the copy cats and rebranded to Wanhao to set them selves apart from the many cloners.
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