looking for a good 3d printer

**Boyan Silyavski** · 25-07-2017

Originally Posted by Chaz

Andrew Mawson has one, https://www.cetus3d.com/. Fairly well priced, imported machine but uses hiwin rails for the structure. Ive seen the prints it does, really impressive.

Looks very nice. I don't know if its me only but i hate that Ultra cheap design. I would gladly pay 100 more for all to look normal gantry like

**Chaz** · 25-07-2017

Originally Posted by Boyan Silyavski

Looks very nice. I don't know if its me only but i hate that Ultra cheap design. I would gladly pay 100 more for all to look normal gantry like

Agreed however IVe seen the prints this does, its impressive. I went as far as abandoning my own designs / ideas as for this money, nothing comes close.

**Ross77** · 25-07-2017

The Cetus3d looks really good but resisting the urge to say "I have all the parts to build that...."

the only down side is that it will only do PLA. Do you guys use nylon much or is it really difficult to do the engineering plastics?

**Chaz** · 25-07-2017

Originally Posted by Ross77

The Cetus3d looks really good but resisting the urge to say "I have all the parts to build that...."

the only down side is that it will only do PLA. Do you guys use nylon much or is it really difficult to do the engineering plastics?

Agreed, for that money, its not worth the time to design, buy, build and test IMHO.

**Ross77** · 25-07-2017

Agreed, for that money, its not worth the time to design, buy, build and test IMHO.

Any idea how much to import it though? not available yet either.

I'd recommend a prusa www.prusa3d.com
I have the previous to the last model and works like a charm. With the new one they have won best printer of the year and looks like a really good printer on a budge

That one is about £1k, are the clones as good?

**Chaz** · 25-07-2017

Speak to AndrewMawson on here, he imported one.

**magicniner** · 25-07-2017

Originally Posted by Ross77

Do you guys use nylon much or is it really difficult to do the engineering plastics?

I'm currently using PLA (and some ABS for tougher small parts) on my (£275) Pusa i3 clone kit, I'm in the process of modifying for Nylon and for larger ABS parts as I have product designs for parts which require the better engineering plastics with higher glass transition temperatures and better durability than PLA.

- Nick

**Ross77** · 25-07-2017

Hows this one if I go the Purusa route http://factory3d.co.uk/

**magicniner** · 26-07-2017

Originally Posted by Ross77

Hows this one if I go the Purusa route http://factory3d.co.uk/

That's the one I went for, I don't think you can beat it for the money and support is excellent via email and telephone, Neil from Model Engineer has that one too, have a look at his posts over there.

- Nick