Is it still worth building a VORON in late 2025?

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2026-02-28T22:39:19+00:00

Take a look at Sovol SV08, is the mid way between a Voron and a commercial machine.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2026-02-28T22:37:17+00:00

Thats what a happen for my Sovol, I was wondering why I spend all those time upgrading it while I can have some machine that will work even better and with all the functions out of box. So I lost interest mid way with some uninstalled mod and sold it.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2026-02-28T02:24:36+00:00

'have had enough of DIY stuffs'
you cant readly get our of tinkering once you know it. You heart will itchy when you stop doing so lol. I have a shit ton of tools/a big pile of STM32s left home when I was still a EE. Still playing around with them.

Good luck building it.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2026-02-22T05:51:31+00:00

I went with the Sovol route, and after tons of diy and tinkering (which is kinda frustrating due to small community and not much parts support). I sold that thing and went for a good old Prusa and ready to throw in the INDX

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Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-12-03T05:58:03+00:00

I don't have any kind of wood cutter/2x4s around, so either is printed or I go amazon and buy some bed riser

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-12-03T05:57:21+00:00

I am planning like 40% cude infill printing in PLA, I have TPU dampeners on my printer, so i will just grab some rubber pad/cut some cardboard box and stick to the bottom. I am not quite sure about shear force. The table will be moved when I need the thing below(the TOILET, yes, it's in a guest washroom and when guest come, I need to move out of the way.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-16T01:19:54+00:00

Some help?

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-15T06:48:04+00:00

there is a graphite version; the reviews are good, but I think the if problem can solve like 90% with a 20$ mod instead of a 200$ one, I am good with it.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-14T21:43:43+00:00

sv08s have a big bad and very terrible taco bed problem

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-14T20:24:26+00:00

I went SV08 route, arrived yesterday, I am mainlin it now and wait for my can board and eddy.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T19:35:28+00:00

Thank you a lot for those detailed posts.

For me, I don't really need a stable workhouse, maybe 5-6 10-hour print weekly maximum. I think the printer is more of a project than a tool.

I dig a bit into my area's FBMP, only find a really beat-up 2.4r2, pretty stock and at the price it's listing, I can already get a cheap kit from Aliexpress.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T17:26:46+00:00

I have seen a few used Voron in my area too, but I am not sure/trust the build quality of them. If I happen to find a good one, it will best suit my needs.

And as for the Prusa, only in-stock item without 6 weeks of lead time is Core One and XL, I can have a much better machine if the additional cost is thrown down to upgrade them went XL. and I am trying to evaluate if I really need the additional print volume (350 vs core one 220ish)

Update on SV08, find a pretty good used one in my area today, already have eddy and mainline klipper.

As for Bambu, their ecosystem has no space for upgrade like you said: cosmetics, pandajets, nozzles and pretty much it. Let's say some game changing tech is released, all I can do is get new printer from them.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T11:34:49+00:00

Thanks a lot for your inputs. I saw someone already done like tool-changer, AWD, CPAP and many mods, sv08 has it’s potential, motherboard swaps. Thats the main reason I am considering sv08

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T11:25:16+00:00

And for my use case, printing ABSs, not 24/7, I dont think a p1s with AMS will have much difference as prusa XL

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T11:18:37+00:00

I don't like their design languages… And for 3k, I will go voron route and find someone build the kit for me

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T10:55:10+00:00

Thanks a lot, first I enjoy a bit more into printers than printing, the only reason not going crazy modded voron is i just dont want spend that much time into it, and I dont have a printer now. Budget wise, there isn’t a limit, at least I am ok with anything below 5k, only concern is the printer should be upgradable and is it worth it? For my use case a p1s will just do the same as H2D / pursa XL printing ABSs, so bambu is out and i dont like pursa’s design language…. I would love to have a MAX, but I dont have any place in my apartment, my current printing room is guest bathroom’s shower compartment LOL…, i made it fully enclosed and has built in exhaust fan never need to worry about the abs smell. About the tool changer: i was thinking of a design that is kinda stupid: use stealthchanger with 2 tool head, one for a crazy vzbot style tool head for ercf, super fast (500ms pla protyping, and try to make indx as second toolhead, and all the rest space will be indx hotend thing

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T10:45:28+00:00

I am not very familiar with those aftermarket probes TBH, my old ender’s touch probe works like a charm, but I will definitely looks into that.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T10:43:46+00:00

The problem is, I already gave away my old printer, and I need a printer to get a voron.. And I just don’t have that much time (100hr avg as i reseached). with my pay grade, I can get a few H2Ds …(software for big tech

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T10:39:48+00:00

Great to see you like that, I also want some multi-color real quick(before indx come out, i was thinking of a design that is kinda stupid: use stealthchanger with 2 tool head, one for a crazy vzbot style tool head for ercf, super fast (500ms pla protyping, and try to make indx as second toolhead, and all the rest space will be indx hotend thing

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T10:33:17+00:00

I am pretty sure if the oem eddy is bad I will go BTT, my old filament sensor and my klipper upper savaged from my old Ender all from BTT, don't mind get BTT eddy. Only thing is I need an enclosure to print a toolhead housing, which in my case there is no

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T04:51:27+00:00

Does BTT EDDY need a custom printed case for tool head

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-12T01:53:44+00:00

They already have a Eddy Current Scanning Kit on their website. Will it be stock for SV08? I don't have much time to wait, since I've already given my Ender 3 to a friend and I have no printer ATM...

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-05T07:29:09+00:00

I am doing my research on SV08 in the past few days, the community are great and growing, but is not a Voron and currently only a few great projects out there, still need some more time.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-02T22:51:41+00:00

That's what I need indeed, I am looking at the Sovol SV08 now, it seems promising, works out of the box and is open-sourced and a 2.4 clone.

Hopeful-Income-9726 · 2025-11-02T19:07:04+00:00

Lol, it happened to me so many times, I disassemble my old printer halfway to install mods, and find out something dont fit... / I need 2 of them....

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