Hey Folks.
Alan Mandic, MandicReally here with 3D Printing Black Friday Deals!
We are coming to you from my Dad's garage today because it is Tofurkey day today.
Between the cooking of dishes I dove in looking for the deals for you folks!
Whether it be full on 3-D printers, parts for printers, tools for working on them,
supplies to go with them,
I tried to find the best things that I saw tp share with you folks.
So if you're shopping for a 3-D printing enthusiast
or you're looking for yourself, let's get into this right now.
Let's start off with the 3-D printers themselves.
The first one that really jumped out at me at a good price is the Elegoo Neptune 2.
This machine usually runs about $170 -$180,depending on
when you go to find it right now on sale, it's $152!
I've been meaning to get around to a long term review of this machine for months.
I've been running one for about six
months, plus now and I have put hundreds of hours on that machine.
I have some opinions about it.
(Some negative) It's by no means my go to recommendation for a printer,
but at $152, it's a pretty hard value to argue with.
But if you want a machine that's maybe a little bit of a
step up from that one, we have the Ender 3 v2.
That comes with a glass bed on it, truly quiet stepper
motor drivers on all of the axis, not just the X and Y.
You've got easy belt adjustment on it.
The Meanwell power supply, a lot of really good upgrades
and from the folks at Comgrow right now that is on sale for $209.
The Ender 3 series is generally my go to recommendation for starter 3D printer.
There is so much useful information online.
So many YouTube videos, help articles, Reddit posts,
so many things out there dedicated to the Ender 3.
You can basically Google solve any problem you're ever going to have
with that machine with just a quick little search.
There's more information available for them, and that is really valuable.
At $209 right now the Ender 3 V2 is compelling value.
If you're looking to get into resin printing, maybe you want to do miniatures
or DnD models and such instead of FDM printing?
Well, then we have the AnyCubic Photon Mono on sale right now.
It's not a huge discount, $21 off normal price brings it down to $179.
You're getting a mono screen that's going to last you longer, print faster.
It's 2K resolution for nice print quality,
so you're not going to have stair step effects from a low resolution screen.
You can find cheaper SLA 3D printers out there, but when you're talking about
something with a 2K mono screen in it, this is a pretty darn good value.
As a starter resin printer, it's the one that I personally picked up myself
to get into resin print.
Speaking of resin SLA type printing, you're going to need some resin
to go with that.
So the folks at Anycubic and Sariya-Tech both have sales going right now.
The Anycubic Basic resin is running $25 for a 1kg bottle,
and the Sariya-Tech ABS-Like, if you want something
that is a little stronger, a little tougher,
maybe some functional resin prints, that's on sale for 1kg at $30 right now.
Now, if you already have something like an Ender 3 or Neptune 2
and maybe you're looking for the next step up in quality of machine
I have for you, the Fokoos Tech Odin-5 F3 folding 3D printer.
Now, the folding is not necessarily something that's
going to interest most folks, but that's actually the machine
I have running directly behind me right now doing a print.
This machine has quiet TMC2208 stepper motor drivers
on a real Robin Nano 1.2 board from MakerBase.
The machine uses a direct drive extrusion system versus the Bowden system,
so you have an easier time of tuning in retractions
for less stringing on your print.
And we're talking about higher end materials like ABS/ASA,
well this actually comes with a volcano type heater block assembly for a larger
melt zone for those higher temperature requiring materials.
I have not put enough time in on this machine to fully recommend it,
and I am not ready to review the machine, But I will say my initial impressions
from running it for the last couple of days have been pretty impressed with it.
Overall retail price on this machine is $350, but right now
Black Friday special, it's on sale for $269.
Nice.
All right now, let's talk 3D printer parts and pieces and tools
for you Tinkerers, for the folks who want to play with their printers,
work on them a little more and upgrade their capability.
Not too long ago, I reviewed the Creality CR-Touch.
You can check out that review up here.
This is an "auto bed level sensor".
I put that in quotations because it does not replace
manual leveling on most machines.
It just improves upon it.
But I did find that in my personal testing,
it was outperforming the BL-Touch by a small margin.
Well it's on sale right now for $32.
The next item I have up for you is the Biqu H2 direct drive extruder.
I recently did a video about how to repair this unit, but this is now the V 2.0.
So they say, claiming there are some minor upgrades to it
that allow it to perform better and function
better than the version that I installed on my Ender 5 Plus.
I paid almost $100 for my Biqu H2
and I've been really happy with it on my Ender 5 Plus.
It has taken a lot of tuning to get it where I want it.
This is not an entry level upgrade for most machines,
but this thing is on sale right now for $63.
Along with that, Biqu H2 I was trying to find some mainboard upgrades,
motherboard upgrades, quiet motherboards for Ender 3s and things like that.
I didn't really find any good deals on Amazon, but I did
on BigTreeTech's website.
Now some of the highlights over there right now, the Voron
2.4 screen that they make is $10.99.
In fact, it's the first piece of my Voron
build that I ordered because it was just too cheap.
However my personal favorite quiet main board for the Ender
3 has a new revision that is even cheaper on their website right now.
In my main Ender 3, the machine that I use the most I run a BigTreeTech
SKR Mini E3 v 2.0 main board.
Well, now they have a V3.0.
The V3.0 versus the V2.0 board doesn't really seem to have much
in the way of upgrades.
I was mostly interested in the price.
This thing is on preorder right now, but supposedly shipping yet
this month, in November, it's on sale for $39.99.
That's cheaper than the Creality 4.2.7 Silent Board and it's cheaper than the SKR
Mini E3 V2 is on Amazon right now.
For those unfamiliar, this will give you the quiet TMC 2208
stepper motor drivers for all of your axis on an Ender 3.
It also allow you to unlock some more potential of the Marlin
firmware, such as Linear Advance for less
bubbling and oozing of your extrusions.
It allows you to unlock more capability, but it is a little bit
more of a tuning board than the Creality boards.
This is for
somebody who wants to tinker and play with and really improve their machine.
However, that said, you could pull this out of the box,
put in your Ender 3 and just get the quiet functionality.
And it'll still be cheaper than the 4.2.7.
And later on, if you want to dove
into those deeper functions, you'll have that capability.
With the global chip shortage, it's been a little hard to get your hands on a
Raspberry Pi 4 or 3 to run OctoPrint on.
So if you want to do that well, Thomas Sanladerer recently did a vide,.
I'll put a link to it up
here, about running OctoPrint on your older Android devices.
Or new Android, If you want to spend that kind of money.
Ever since I watched that video, I have immediately started running
OctoPrint on my old Google Pixel 2XL phone, and I am loving it.
I've got the built in 4K webcam right there on the phone.
I can run my Moment lenses on the case that I have for this phone.
All it required from me was a USB-C hub
that gave me the USB port that I needed to plug into the printer
and a power delivery in port to supply power to the phone.
Th hub that I personally picked up went up in price after I ordered it,
so I found another one that's on sale right now for $17 and put that on my list.
This also has an RJ 45 port.
So while Wi-Fi is fine for the most part, if you're like me
and you're not always wanting to rely on Wi-Fi, you'd rather the stable connection
of a wired connection you will have that with this hub as well.
All right folks, think we're going to end the list there.
I do have a few more items on there, but I felt this was a pretty good
stopping point.
You can find the rest of the items in the LINKS IN THE DESCRIPTION down below.
I put together a list on my Amazon Affiliate Store.
There are a couple of links to like Fokoos Tech and Comgrow on there.
Some of those are affiliate links, but not all.
If you use the affiliate links, you are helping to support my content creation.
I get a little
kickback from those companies, but they they do not charge you anything more.
Let's face
it, affiliate links are the primary reason that content creators generally
take the time to look through these things and put these lists together.
All right, folks, that's going to wrap it up for this one.
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