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Cake day: June 8th, 2024

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  • New? Maybe a Chinese scooter around here. Cheapest motorcycle i can think of is 5k not to mention all the bs dealer fees the bike shops charge. Then there’s the fact that auto drivers care less and pay less attention to motorcycles than ever before. They seem to have the mentality of “it their fault for riding a motorcycle”. Meanwhile you’re splattered across the road. I miss my bike but no way i’d ride around here.

















  • I bought a trodon 2.0 when they first came out. It’s been rock solid. I also have 2 qidi max3s. They’ve been equally rock solid. My trodon is still reprap based and the wiring is proprietary so getting input shaping would take some work. It’s build into the qidis so i can push them harder. I haven’t priced the voron clones lately but when i got mine it was about $400 more than i paid for my qidis. And it was totally disassembled (other than the gantry iirc). Given that, when i got my 3rd replacement printer, it was another qidi. All these new printers are head and shoulders above the ones i started with (cr10, ender 5). I sometimes miss the tinkering the old ones required, but i don’t miss the failed prints 65 hrs into a 70 hr job for some stupid crap that was more prevalent back then.