Keep in mind price vs performance vs time assembling.  You can build as capable machine for about the same price, but I know of no all inclusive kit for it. You will have to pick and match and assemble yourself.  Or you can get a SD3 or SD2 and have a machine ready to do "basic" printing out of the box, and with a few really easy upgrade from the forum have a very capable machine.

I have have done this on at least 10 occasions when all else fails over the last 20 years, i've always got my money back and on several occasions got to keep the product.

I've never bought from overseas and had to cancel but i did pit a hotel telephone bill in dispute from st lucia and it was refunded and never heard anything from them.

Usually your item is insured also free of charge but check first. You are also protected that if the product never turns up i.e. the company goes bankrupt prior to shipping you get your money back.

My warrenty is my credit card company... You have 500 days in e uk to claim your money back on defective items

So, who decides if it is defective? and if so does it matter if the defect was caused by misuse/ignorance or manufacturers defect? I guess I am just curious but I have seen adverts here in the usa also from cc companies offering warranties on products bought with their cc.

Lawsy are you saying you wouldn't buy a s3?

The main reason I wouldn't is the massive delay from ordering to receiving. I recently had to choose a second 3D printer for work and I went with a printrbot mainly for this reason and a few frustrations with SD support. Having said that, I would still be happy to recommend a Solidoodle to someone if they were patient.

The bed thing can be improved greatly without too much expense.

Its wonderful to see so many new and old members here.

My purpose is for 2-15cm mechanical pieces for prototyping and general childish fun. I dont need the highest resolution, and don't expect it, and will generally spend my time working on print speeds and fill levels and supports.

However, I'm getting the s2 500$ and so my first mod will be a heated bed. my ultimate goal is to find a very thin ceramic plate compared to floor tiles that people have used successfully and replacing most of the wiring and a cooling fan on the z axis motor.

Next is brilliant and I wouldnt have thought of it, but a cardboard box that fits over is probably the best cost/value enclosure there is. I would staple/adhere some mylar to it I think, if i find i need something more than what cardboard is giving me.

My next goal would have to be that 0.05mm or better print ability. I firmly believe anything is possible, and I seriously can not stress it enough that nothing solidoodle has done has convinced me to buy one. I assumed I'd run into one or get a message back but havent.

However, my original requirements were price and wait time. And mostly price. It comes made of steel and assembled, so can't really beat that; noone is that I've found, at least. Ive looked everywhere and considered every option including just paying a company to build and ship me what I wanted, but this is just so wonderful a product with a good, but clunky business model. They seem to at least care and try, and are engineers. I have faith in them to find what they do wrong and fix it.

My exact response aha! I had Credit Card in hand about to buy it, and realized no warranty... read that one guys blog where everything broke and no support... buttt i dont think this was around then or he never came at least.

I really cant stress it enough that especially your success elmoret convinced me. Ive thought about using kickstarter if I ever had something worthy, and Ive only seen good responses so far. I would appreciate a little write up about that site somewhere on here. I have been for a while deciding on how to best get products to market and the best would be KS or licensing, and I'm allowed to do both.

apollogies for spelling and grammar. once i found hacks and mods i wasnt able to sleep.

Love the filastruder by the way! Kickstarter is an amazing resource and the people who invest in it!

It would be great if anyone could point me to a thread of first mods to make / spares to extrude or a list of threads?

Lawsy are you saying you wouldn't buy a s3?

Despite my worries over support from solidoodle it was THIS community and the generous people on it that convinced me to buy.

Thanks

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I will say support has been better lately, shipping has been greatly sped up

Took them 3 weeks to ship two hotends I ordered in April.

I know I had the same issue in April. I literally had it in 3 days after I called them. I'm not sure if it's the ranting posts or emails that I have sent in the past but the new hotend I got has a bigger resistor in it and a different thermal past holding it in place.

May I ask what you all use your printer for?

Lately, manufacturing hoppers for this:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/833 … t-extruder

I will say support has been better lately, shipping has been greatly sped up

Took them 3 weeks to ship two hotends I ordered in April.

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/1819/hea … isonsstls/

You can see from the graphs in that thread how bad the new 87deg heating pad is. I went with the custom PCB but the QU-BD bed was very similar. If you print the parts in that thread, it becomes fairly straightforward to do the upgrade.

I will say support has been better lately, shipping has been greatly sped up and the newest hot end they sent me has been working great (Day 5), I honestly think they are making an effort and are showing improvements. And I will say despite the frustrations they have always taken care of the issues.

Anything look different about yours compared to the other hot ends? and how long till you gotyours, then. not gonna lie the 6-8 weeks was almost a nodeal, until I realized there arent many options in my price range.

Also been thinking about picking up a CNC at some point, if anyone has one theyd recommend that would be appreciated as well, albeit a bit off topic

Im still debating on heated bit standard or making one, but once that is discussed with my partner Im definitely going to get one.

huge Thank you to everyone who gave your opinion (and viewed. that number grew quick, which really surprised me as to how active this place is.) and directed me towards all these cool things, especially a cheap psu. ones i found were not so pleasantly priced.

Also, I think I could get a ceramic tile for free and would work better so Ill get that and the element and psu and be set.