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SoliForum - 3D Printing Community → General Discussion → With apologies to Janis Joplin
Oh, Lord, won't ya buy me a Soli-dator
My friends all have Prusas, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my life time
with help from my friends,
Oh, Lord, won't ya buy me a Solidator.|
(Everybody!)
Oh, Lord...
So I assume you already have the Mercedes Benz and the Color TV...
Edit:
Since I hadn't heard of the Solidator before, I looked it up, and one thing that bothers me about it is that it has no reviews to speak of.
There's a lot of discussion about it on various forums, talk about what it should be capable of based on specs, but no actual reviews, no one posting anything based on hands on experience.
Even the Kickstarter has only a few comments going back to about the time where a couple of early backers were getting the printer, then everything stopped.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/23 … r/comments
For $5K, I want to see it work in person, and I want to read reviews posted by actual users.
Actually, $5k was the Kickstarter price. I got a quote with 2L of resin and shipping from Germany (Hey! It's made in Germany!) for $7500.
Yeah, that bothers me too. Could it be that it is in that awkward market niche where industrial users have no need to scrimp down for a cheap SLA printer and guys like us have a hard time ponying up for $7.5k? Also, I don't think they have any resins yet except the orange.
Me? I like the speed and large size, it should work well for small production operation. Otherwise, I'd be shooting for a Formlabs Form 1 or 2 which does have the clear, rubber and black resins I want.
I want a Solidator just like the Solidator that married dear old Dad.
Wait, does that mean Dad was a Solidator Dater?
$7500 ??? Really? what happened to $4995. 2 liters of their resin should cost $100 ($50/liter) according to their original claims. So if you were to assume shipping from Germany to US would be about $400 (that's being very generous), it still puts the printer at $7K. Isn't that a little steep?
Speaking of resin, the stuff they're using is a special formulation designed to work with their natural light DLP, whereas the rest of the stuff out there is designed to work with UV.
What happens if they go out of business, or decide to jack up the resin price to 4-5 times the current cost?
I know it sounds very cool and all, but $7500 is more than I'm willing to risk on something I can't personally see or at least get some impartial feedback on.
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