Original ANET A8 In 2024! | Why you don't need a new 3D Printer
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2024
- In this video, I show you the maintenance I carry out to make my 7 year old ANET A8 like new again. The results shocked even myself and saved me from the need of buying a new printer, which would've been expensive, and a huge waste of parts. I'm convinced almost nobody needs a new printer if they already have one, if all they're doing is printing a couple knick knacks every month. The few minutes saved from a new printer will not justify the waste from throwing away a perfectly good printer
Just got one for $10 and I’m about to clean and calibrate it.
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.
230Volt heatbed, hemera hotend, bltouch and G10 print surface, the A8 is a beast running klipper
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.
Now installing klipper in my "slightly" modified Anet A8. Mostly printing ABS and PETG.
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) 💪
nice one
After the Linear advance and input shaping calibration i am printing double the speed without quality loss in my anet A8.
Running klipper?
If I'm going to buy a printer (I've never had one before), and want fast prints, what should I get?
Anycubic Cobra 2 pro
Bambulab P1S or an A1 Mini
Elegoo Neptune 4 pro, but do your own research, as I’ve never tried other printers
@@fasttutorials2419 Dont buy this one. Has alot of flaws. The spec sound good on paper but dont work correctly.
Bambu lab or prusa
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
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
The only upgrade on mine is a fan shroud and it works with no issues. What do you mean? The only hassle is manual bed leveling.
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
Maybe you didn’t watch the video, as I’m not suggesting you go out to buy an A8, but suggesting those with existing printers to realise that what they have is most likely enough
🌸 Promo`SM