Have acquired (after many months of research and battling, and a fortuitous find on local e-auction site) a Solidoodle 2 expert.  Finally fired up in anger last night, printed (eventually) something resembling a snowflake.  Wide, low print, excellent for testing adhesion issues.

Found that flipping the enclosure (for now) eases the filament flow.  Have a bunch of MFP's pulled apart for building reprap (which didn't ever happen), but have ended up with lots of cases and glass (for free).  Top of a brother scanner will be trimmed down and pressed into service as a see through raised lid on the SD2 so that the filament gets easy passage and can see what is going on inside.

Next up is printing thumbscrews and putting scanner glass onto bed. 

Main objective for printer is printing replica / replacement classic car parts (knobs / inserts / etc).  And handy tools and stands.

Am slightly handy (having rebuilt a couple of classic cars and their engines) and moderately technical (being neighbourhood "techie" guy), so 3D has been a bit of a journey and an interest.