Isn’t the whole point that you aren’t supposed to compress it cause it will force you to overheat the flower to try and get the THC making it essentially the same as burning it?

Seriously they recommend either using the teeth to cut a piece right from the nug or sucking on it like a straw to make sure their is air flow for the oil to vaporize properly.

This seems backwards.

I don’t know why but like I swear it looks like the white one wobbles when on my phone screen.

Why is the white one wobbling?!?

Don’t! I’m still jealous even if it’s not perfect. That device still seems so cool and the mechanism of swapping entire tool heads is incredible and then using standard nozels still makes it cheaper than me going for likely one of the proprietary systems I’m looking at instead in the far flung future.

I will bet it holds it’s value and you could resell it at the cost you put into it for quite a while and people like me will be jealous for as long as you have it.

Yeah. Honestly this is one of those spaces where the product is being built first and the use case for it decided after for a lot of companies. I needed 3d printers when I was first getting into them but man my self built repraps sucked and now they are awesome and I don’t need it at all… Sigh.

Turns out that my 3d printer is mostly just a toy maker for my kids.

Honestly looking at 3d printer ads and their selling points I think the printer companies have figured that out too

Love the write up on it! Thank you so much. Sounds like I should go with maybe a cheaper printer for now to take advantage of price drops of older good devices and let that run it’s course a bit since I don’t need nearly as much build volume at moment.

Wow. You are correct I have not ever heard of that.

Wild that it seems to be working with flexible too.

You know the cheapest option would be to get a $100 ender 3 and that but I doubt it would be nearly as reliable and still I have reservations about single hotels after having issues with clogging on temp changes between filament.

No, I definitely want multihead and an IDEX system is the basis for these multi tool or multi head printers since there isn’t enough of them to really have a simple name for and are generally way out of my price range I wasn’t including them really. The point is that printing with TPU and PETG or soluble PVA and PLA is best done with separate hot ends.

I know that IDEX is thought of as printing 2 of the same but seriously it’s way more useful for good clean multi filament printing even if it’s just color difference since the purge waste is basically not existent.

And you are missing the point if you think that the cheap and reliable is Bambu. That’s nearly the same price after both pieces for the Prusa XL and still relies on a single hotend.

Flashforge is not a no-name printer. It’s a pretty respected company the Creator Pro 2 is just a several year old system that people complained about back when it was $800+ and seems more reasonable at $400 since it’s completely enclosed and multihead. It’s just somewhat proprietary as well.

I would absolutely look outside of just Bambu and potentially Prusa just cause of their cost but it doesn’t negate the other brands existence and history in the space.

Yeah. I saw those and my SO has suggested it might be a good idea but having done single hotend the purge towers are a massive pain and pretty wasteful and if your filaments are especially different there can be clogs in them.

I mean my previous multi filament printer was single hotend and used a ball bearing apparently to keep the filaments separate while heated and just clogged all the time.

But yeah I have heard good things about Bambu