I have an ender 3 v2 printer for a couple of years and now I want to buy a better 3D printer. I want to print other materials like as ASA or ABS and i believe that i need a new 3D printer.
I have an i3 clone, an Anet 6, that is even older and more primitive than your Ender. I can make it print, ABS, but just barely. I can get the bed up to only 80 Cand the nozzel to about 240. But no higher on either. The Anet 6 is not enclosed but Cura has a setting called "draft wall". It prints a wall 10 or 5 mm around the part and really does seem to help. it acts like a pseudo-enclosure. Yes it wates plastic, but it works. TRhe ABS parts donr look good but are strong. I am here because I decided to build a Voron too. I am strtimng withj a V0 and laster in the year will build a a 350mm V2.4 with some means for doing multi-materials, IDEX, "Rabit" or tap-changer. I don't know which. But you can marginally print ABS with an Ender. (Hint, gluse ceramic insulation undeer the bed and or convert to 24V heating.
I have read a lot about 3D printers models and I have decided that a voron will be a my new 3d printer but I have a lot of doubts that I hope you can help me with.
I have never assembled any 3D printer. The one I have I already bought assembled so I don't have any experience in assembling any.
I assume if you want a ABS printer that you have some use for ABS parts and can design them. If so you have above average mechanical ability. You will make mistakes and have to back out, take stuff apart and do it again. There is nothing you can build with a hex screw driver that can not be taken apart and rebuilt with the same screwdriver. I did this more than once.
I want to print ASA, ABS and PLA. It is not a commercial project, it's only for personal use.
My questions are,
Trident or 2.4? which is faster? Does one print with better quality than the other? Is it worth the price difference between the two?
I want a larger print size. I would like 300 or 350. Is the 50mm difference worth the price increase?
Should I buy a kit or buy the components individually?
Buy a kit and then replace parts as you see fit. The advice on-line is "LDO is best" but much of this advice is way older then 6 months old. That is eons in Internet time. All the kit sellers are improving fast. I just bought a FOrmbut kit and got very good parts and Moon's motors (I like Moon's specs better than LDO's. Formbut also allows you to make a special order and not buy the parts you don't want. Like for example I want an Octopus Pro and they said they will give credit for not shipping to plain octopus. Their printed parts were very good quality. They can ship standard kits to my house same day (I live 30 miles from the US warehouse)
What hotend and what extruder would you recommend?
Me personally, I would recommend going sort-of cheap and planning to upgrade later. Formbit offered the Phaetus Dragon for $40 and I went with that. Seems good. But later if I want to print very fast I might go with a high flow version.
I was sketpical of printed ABS extruders but now I am impressed with the steathburner and the mini stealth design. I don't know how long it will last but when it need replacing I will go with Orbiter 2.0
Is the larger 350mm worth the cost? If you need to print big parts it is 100% for sure worth it. But if you print smaller parts it is not good at all because of the long time to heat the chamber and let everything "heat soak". For this reason, I bought a V0.2 with a 120x120 bed. It will do 70% of what I need and will fit on a desktop and is portable. My next printer will be a V2.4 350mm with multi-material capability.
V2.4 or Trident? Iliked several things about V2.4: (1) The V2.4 bed does not move, the parts are not shaken or moved and (2) the gantry can "warp" to best fit the warped build plate. The four drive belts can do force the gantry to a best-fit to the bed. The Trident can level the bed to the gantry but the bed will not warp and will always be a plain. (when I say "warp", I mean 0.2mm over the 300mm square. and (3) the V2.4 can use a Kinematic bed mounting system.
"Tap changer" works on the V2.4. This is a current experiment tool changer that I like. I don't think this system could work on Trident.
I am currently drawing a V2.4-like 350mm printer using 2040 extrusions and with 40mm more room in the front and with double glassed clear panels and foam insulation for dark panels.
The V0.2 printer is actualy large enough to print all I need for the bigger V2.4 project.
Thanks in advance for your answers