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I still run my Anet A8. I bought it in 2016 or 2017 I think. I upgraded it with a few frame braces, Skynet/Marlin firmware with auto bed levelling. I also upgraded the heat bed connectors, power supply to a 20A I think. I added a heated bed mosfet, added fuses to the heated bed and heat block lines and made a custom Arduino over temp and smoke sensor for it. It was so fun and informative to learn on. I did videos on all of these upgrades as I leaned. It is still on my main desk. I still use it frequently. It just uses blue painters tape and parts stick like shit to a blanket lol. I put some cork under the heat bed to help insulation. It is is dimensionally accurate and relatively fast. It has printed another 3d printer, a PCB factory and multiple hundreds of things for family and friends and me. I can't even list them all. It has hundreds and hundreds of hours on it. I have 6 3d printers now but still rely on the old Anet A8. It prints PLA, PETG, and TPU. I used the Anet as my go to, dedicated TPU printer for racing drone shells. It is a proper soldier! It has had one nozzle change in all those years and that is pretty much it. The smooth rods are not even scratched! I keep thinking I need to make room but I don't want to get rid of it. It is still one of the quietest 3d printers I own. I love it and I learned a lot from it. Thanks for the video. Ps shout out to the F91-W!. pps, I did make a bracket to help support the hotend cables from falling out. Here www.thingiverse.com/thing:1935965

Hi! Thanks for the amazing vid and thank you for making me feel good about my Ender 3 clone!

I bought this because it's a combination of cheap generic chinese parts that I can easily find replacements for.

I miss my anet a8. I sold it 5 years ago. I did so many mods on it including replacing the bearings. It made such a huge improvement. Eventually I ran out of stuff to print and got tired of spending 3 minutes leveling the bed before every print. I just got my new Ender 3 v3 SE today. excited to print again!

A8 gang assemble I am currently finishing restoration of this printer with new bearings, orbiter 2.0 extruder and tz 2.0 hotend (yes, it requires 12v to 24v converter) and it's a lot of fun.

I did the AM8 upgrade and a few other mods like a screen change. Been a good printer. Now its better than ever. I see no reason to change it. The only thing I "wish" for is to be able to make larger prints.

GREAT VIDEO .... I've been rocking the A8 for the past 7+ years and it's still going pretty good, I will likely listen to your advice to change the bearings but this printer rocks

Sudah hotswap?

I have a 7 year old A8 and it's just fine. Never have to re-level. I print on glass and have a 5lb floor tile under it for keeping the axis's steady. I did have to replace the LCD a few years ago. Every year or two I make sure all the screws / nuts are tight.

I just purchased my A8 a month ago in non working condition. Someone had installed a new heat block, heater and thermistor but misconnected the thermistor causing the printer to shut down in temp runaway mode. I replaced the 2 pin connector with a 3 pin one like the original and that fixed everything. I am amazed at the print quality and it prints a benchy comparable in print quality to my BBL X1C but takes about 3 times as long :) but I'm retired so speed is not the issue. I do find the 5 button display to be a bit of a pain but I run it using Octopi so it is rarely an issue. According to the display it has printed for 12 hrs 36 mins and used 132.7 meters of filament which I am prepared to believe due to the lack of wear to any part of the printer that I can find. One mod I have done is to turn over the bed leveling screws and lock them in place so that I can use the wingnuts to adjust the bed level and I have installed a new flexible magnetic pei textured surface which I really enjoy. So I agree with Mr Fast, the Anet A8 is a keeper.

i bought an a8 about 5 years ago and then it took me like 8 hours to assemble with poor instructions the screen barely lit up and the screws for the y rods didn't fit in their housing when I turned it on the prints were all low quality and it just kept jamming. i ended up throwing it away as the warranty had apparently expired and the z stops had broken as well as a stepper motor kept malfunctioning. It chased me out of the hobby as it was my first printer however about to get back in with a ender 3 v3 KE (i would get something like a Bambu lab x1 if i could afford one) 💪

Now installing klipper in my "slightly" modified Anet A8. Mostly printing ABS and PETG.

After the Linear advance and input shaping calibration i am printing double the speed without quality loss in my anet A8.

Just got one for $10 and I’m about to clean and calibrate it.

If you want a 3D printer as a hobby, this could be reasonable. If you want a 3D printer as a tool to support other hobbies, just get a P1S

If I'm going to buy a printer (I've never had one before), and want fast prints, what should I get?

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nice one

This review is only useful to people who have the time and patience to upgrade their printer if you don’t go and buy a newer and more futuristic printer. This only applies to tinkerers if you want printers that work out of the box buy the bambu or prusa

Why would you want a printer that may catch fire when you could buy a even newer ender 3 for the same cost just buy a Bambu, ender or prusa

What did I just watch? lmao

Fast Sync and No Sync are mixed

Thats a great machine to get for free , i got some phenom and other older lga 775 components , :)

Their chargers are crap. The USB-C cables are fine, but I only use it for data transfer and 15W charging only.

I have it I literally am super satisfied with the soundd

Very good

i love gaming pc with ssd and graphics card

mine bought at 2018. still using now

Lenovo Ideapad 330s 15.6" Laptop, Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U Quad-Core Processor, 8GB Memory, 256GB Storage, or Lenovo Ideapad 3i, 14.0" FHD, Intel Core i5-10210U, 8GB, 512GB SSD, Platinum Grey, Windows 11 Home. They are both 450$ in walmart. which one do you think is better?

Plz suggest SSD for this model

How to turnoff the light?

Great work! I did like the old case, though.

Nice! I like to see videos like that, as if it were a restoration and improvement.

Did you realize you mixed up "no sync" and "fast sync"? Ther is no any tearing in no sync and v-sync, but strangle there is teraring in fastsync and has the lowest input lag. :)

Nice work! I like to see older but still usable hardware get a new lease on life. Not everyone has a blank check for a gaming rig. It's a perfect stater system with an upgrade path. 🙂

Terbaiklah, Bang 😆👍

how did you change your light modes

You should have an avatar and should use alcohol for cleaning! Like video 👍👍👍

No cooling fans? Nice video.

cool!

Slight correction, at 0.22 , I meant to write 2c/4t under the desktop i3 2xxx.

Can you change the light color of the keyboard? Or it’s just white??

Soft to type the keys?

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You can immediately tell these aren't genuine blues though

Beautiful hand

I use blues (I know, bad) but even this hurt me

chonky blue switches

Awesome video. I like this video. What do you think of my video on TypeRacer?

Why is your brother(?) sitting so still lmaooo