I spent the WHOLE day trying to fix my #Ender3 3D printer with no success...
It seems that I have an under extrusion issue but I tried
- Slower speed
- Higher temperature
- Recalibrating the extruder
- Changed the Bowden PTFE tube
- Changed the nozzle and cleaned the hot end.
Prints are still shit... Now it's either I go and buy new parts again, or just give up and save a bit to get a new one that is more user friendly (thinking of the #bambulab P1P... But I need to explore a bit)
Which Creality printer is being so problematic? Just wondering. We are looking at buying a 3D printer.
@MaryPot I don't want to blame the printer I have (Creality Ender 3), because I had it for a few years and it "survived" a few moves. But here is a good "rule".
Cheap printer are not necessarily bad but WILL require maintenance and tinkering. The Ender series is often a really good entry point and depending on model goes for less than ~300€$£ but parts are easy to find.
But, if you get on the expensive side, you might lose the freedom of tinkering with it to really customise your printer at a low coast. But it's mostly "plug and play" and user friendly. But prices start at 600€$£.
Look on YouTube for videos about "entry" level printers, because there are other good brand than Creality that offers good products 🙂
We have saved up and want to get a printer that will give us the ability to print as large as possible without buying a gold-plated printer.
At the moment, we are looking mostly at Creality and Prusa.
From what I have read so far, parts for Prusa are pretty easy to get hold of. Hubby is a tech, so he can do all the investigations into those aspects, though - but I paste what folks tell me here.
Moving house is a risky business when it comes to tech.
Antoine Sarrazin 
MaryPot