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I've made a lot of mods to my A8, some safety related (power supply, MOSFETs, better connection to the heat bed), braces to improve stabilisation, belt tensioners, improved filament spool holder and others. But although I thought these must all be good things to do, I couldn't necessarily see...

What model of printer?

Hi Mark, Welcome. I have an Anet A8, also built from a kit. I've been really pleased with it. I just googled Anet A8 vs A2 and came across this extremely negative post about all things Anet. Yes, I have made some mods, but that was part of the fun. There are some safety problems with power, but...

I forgot the cost of the filament over the remaining printer lifetime. Make it 36 cents a day. I'm still happy:weee

At 25 cents a day, I get excited about indulging in a hobby at zero cost:celebrate

The print was successful this time. My bet is that decreasing the travel speed fixed it. The print comes off the raft very easily and the raft off the untreated glass. Perhaps too easily. The raft may be close to slipping on the build plate while printing. On the other hand I've heard reports...

I've had an adhesion problem with this PETG print. The model is an arm that clips on to a slat of a wooden shelf in the airing cupboard. You hang damp shirts on hangers along the arm while they're drying. The clip end looks like this: I first printed just the clip end in PLA to check it would...

I'm not sure about amortising the total cost of the printer over its lifetime. The printer is more like a car. You probably replace components as they wear out, not run the car into the ground. Most bits are really cheap to replace - for example I've replaced the extruder assembly in my Anet A8...

OK @The Hat. It's already been designed. You could try printing it though when your printer is repaired

I keep filament spools I'm not using in these vacuum seal bags

Great work, Nifty! I need to do something like this. I've often wanted to dry a spool of filament - just to be safe, I've not had any problems so far. I'm not allowed to use the kitchen oven for this, even though I insist it's completely safe (some of my credibility disappeared a few years ago...

Try designing a Klein bottle in Fusion 360. That will keep you busy.

I had to replace the print head. That fixed the problem temporarily and stupidly I continued using the new head with the cartridges for a bit longer. That new print head was eventually replaced under warranty, but I'm fairly sure it was also damaged by the cartridges. By this time there was a...

Assuming the extruder motor uses a similar driver to the axis motors, it does seem like the motherboard has to be the primary suspect.:(

So are you sure a new mainboard would fix it? Have you checked if there's any voltage on the extruder motor connection from the mainboard when you try to extrude filament?

Thanks. I'll sign up as a hobbyist. I've not investigated the student option, but I suspect you have to provide some genuine verification.

That's what I'd been doing for years, but Canon were making it more and more difficult with each new generation of cartridge. At the time there wasn't a resetter for the OEM cli-5x1 cartridges so I tried refillables from a very reputable source, with disastrous results. I know there are...

The way @The Hat drives his printer he would have been through several mules.

After many years refilling Canon printers I gave up after using refillable cli-x51 cartridges which hadn't been properly tested and ruined my print head. Now I just buy high quality compatible cartridges for my 2D printers. It's a bit more expensive than refilling myself, but at least I'm not...

Very useful. Thanks for posting