<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — flashing, is it worth it]]> 2019-07-19T21:19:32Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/18140/flashing-is-it-worth-it/ <![CDATA[Re: flashing, is it worth it]]> It seems to me that folks either love or hate the davinci.
I have a friend that has one I Do not recall witch model but loves it.
I know another guy that rebuild them into working machines,
And even the solidoodles need a bit of  attention out of the box.

The point here is hand a poor quality machine to someone and they will base there experience on it . then make a determination if they like 3d printing or not.
So do you really want to lend him that printer?? Your choice of coarse.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/6775/ 2019-07-19T21:19:32Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/150927/#p150927 <![CDATA[Re: flashing, is it worth it]]> Tin Falcon wrote:

if you dislike your friend(BIL) just give him the davinci.

nah, i love my bro-in-law haha. He can borrow the jr haha.

Im not going to let him borrow my cr10 though haha, no way.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/18962/ 2019-07-19T01:45:46Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/150922/#p150922 <![CDATA[Re: flashing, is it worth it]]> if you dislike your BIL just give him the davinci.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/6775/ 2019-07-19T01:39:15Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/150920/#p150920 <![CDATA[Re: flashing, is it worth it]]> carl_m1968 wrote:

I would tell him to save his money and buy a CR10 as well.  Much better and much more reliable printer. Even if you flash it, you are still dealing with the same hardware which is the biggest issue with XYZ. It's cheap, it wears prematurely and there are no part suppliers for them. Even XYZ will not sell parts. They will have you ship it back at your cost then repair it at your cost and then ship it back to you at your cost.

oh, he is not buying the davinci jr.. he wants to just borrow my old one to just mess around with since it was replaced by the cr10, which is AMAZING!!. I have printed some dang good lookin parts. so smoooooth and buttery

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/18962/ 2019-07-19T01:15:56Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/150919/#p150919 <![CDATA[Re: flashing, is it worth it]]> I would tell him to save his money and buy a CR10 as well.  Much better and much more reliable printer. Even if you flash it, you are still dealing with the same hardware which is the biggest issue with XYZ. It's cheap, it wears prematurely and there are no part suppliers for them. Even XYZ will not sell parts. They will have you ship it back at your cost then repair it at your cost and then ship it back to you at your cost.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/7731/ 2019-07-15T21:51:18Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/150903/#p150903 <![CDATA[flashing, is it worth it]]> I do own a davinci jr1.0 printer. However, i have recently replaced it with a cr10. Now my brother-in-law wants to borrow the jr1.0.

It prints third party filament just fine, since i am using the nfc tag trick, but the issue is, should i flash it so he can use a better slice than xyzprint which is supper clunky and slow. I own a copy of simplify3d and prusa slicer2.0, both of which he likes. Is it worth the hassle to flash it to use one of those two?

The printer is having some troubles with circles but i think once i tighten the belts and get rid of the snags, it will work fine.

Thanks

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