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Review on πŸ–¨οΈ CR-10Mini 3D Printer by Creality3D: Resumes Printing, 300x220x300mm Capacity by Jeff Drollinger

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Printer? Yes, for a few days!

I bought this after months of arguing with myself about whether I want to print at home or just keep going at work and wrestling with myself about how much effort I'm going to have to put up with assembly and how much print volume I wanted (and had a table surface to hold). I was excited when it showed up and it really came together relatively quickly. Only 1/2 hour. After assembly I started with the entry level of the bed but couldn't. The glass bed was slightly warped with a slight bump in the middle. After a bit of mental work, I turned the glass top upside down and got an "almost" level bed. I printed my first test print. It came out wonderful for the first test print after an easy level. I fiddled around a bit more and printed a great bank, so I printed some of the things I wanted to print at work between paid jobs. print everything. On day 5 I started typing, went back about 1/2 hour later to check the launch and found nothing. I watched him for a second and he seemed to be feeding on PLA and moving and seemed to be functioning fine but there was nothing on the bed. I got on my hands and knees and looked at the print nozzle. A tiny piece of PLA spilled out. Canceled the print, went through the purge/purge/purge processes and looked for a cause of the strange problem and found nothing. After all this, when I started loading the filament, the filament didn't do anything when it was fed into the Bowden extrusion system, and oddly the motor started making a clicking noise. I immediately requested a return and bought another model.

Pros
  • Great price
Cons
  • Big and bulky