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Flashforge Adventurer 5M Pro High Speed Auto Leveling 3D Printer $268 + Free Shipping
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Think the biggest thing is do you want color or not? I believe the pro can do higher temp materials and is fully enclosed on the pro.
I'm just now diving deep into learning about 3d printers and went with the AD5X for a couple of reasons. $250 and multi was cheap enough for me to see if this is something I wanted to do. Long term plan is this will end up being a single color print with all the spools loaded with the same color so when one runs out during the print, it'll swap over and continue. It worked great last night.
I have the 'enclosure' kit coming from FF($44), have 2kg of petg for that print($22), ordered the camera and led ($51) as well so in total $117 and still need to add a fan and two hepa filters.
Take that into consideration if you're going to want to enclose it.
Also look up how much 'waste' any multicolor printer makes that has one tool head.
The 5m pro has been very reliable printing pla. A couple issues due to user error/learning curve but YT videos helped disassemble the nozzle assembly.
If you're going to print something requiring an enclosure like asa/abs, this is what I'd go with.
If you want to do multicolor or use a set up that will continue a print when a spool runs out and you don't have to be there, AD5X for budget or look into the tool changers coming out like the snapmaker u1 or three another one coming with a 12 changer.
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If you don't WANT an enclosure, great, don't buy it, but if you want an enclosed printer you're way better off getting the pro out of the gate.
The camera may be nice but I don't have my printer networked. The extra cooling fan and the air filtration would be nice. Same with the extra nozzles (different sizes, not just spares). Not that I'm going to question anyone who saves the money and gets a 5M. It's a great printer and now a heck of a great deal.
however the FF are tried and tested units
however the FF are tried and tested units
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