i'd hope i won't run in to the same problems with the solidoodle as i did with the mendel. the fact that the sd2 has a riveted steel frame already eliminates a lot of points where inaccuracies can occur. The biggest problem i have with my mendel right now is the leaky hot end. I got another hotend from mixshop, but that one has a different mounting scheme than what my extruder currently has.

now that my SD2Pro is on its way I can soon print another extruder to fit my new hotend and get the mendel going again. It's an expensive way to fix my mendel, but the redundancy of having 2 printers would allow me to make parts for them to repair each other. It's really quite interesting that we're have the option to do that.

Tweaking is a mainstay of the tech for now, but we're getting better, and getting to know your machine is probably the best outcome you can expect.

Good Luck and WELCOME!

I have an existing sells mendel that I've built and tweaked... I wasn't able to get that many prints out of it. After a few months of use and 2 attempts to rebuild and re-tweak it, the old mendel parts hot end started leaking out where the PEEK barrel and the brass barrel joins... I got pretty sick of wrestling with it, so I sought to just buy a new (hopefully more reliable) one so I can just print new parts to fix/improve the mendel...

I have a USB thing holder to my name published on thingiverse. It makes a pretty good test print.

I'm hoping the SD2Pro will be much more reliable than my sells mendel, then I can concentrate on designing parts and printing instead of spending all my time tweaking my printer.