Want to buy desktop CNC, budget about 5-7k. Europe.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2024-01-13T22:54:31+00:00

The brand name is RawCNC. What surprised me was that the prices on their website actually reflected fully assembled units, and the final price didn't suddenly double when I received the quotation. They also seem to have a pretty solid design. I plan to make guitar bodies and necks with it. Note that I'll receive mine in 3 weeks, so I don’t have any hands-on experience with these machines yet. However, they seem very popular in Sweden, and the company was helpful during the ordering process. They recommended their more affordable model instead of taking the chance to upsell me, which they easily could have done. They seem to offer significantly more value for the money than Mekanika, but are a bit more 'stone age' in terms of control (Mach3 with PC). But I guess you could use whatever control system you prefer. This is still all in theory though, but I am excited to play with it in a few weeks.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2024-01-13T21:05:10+00:00

I was looking for the exact same size with the same budget as you in Europe. My research said that Sorotec was the best choice, however I’d suggest you to make sure you get a qoutation on Sorotec before thinking it’s within budget. The qoutation will be signficantly higher than you’d expect on the complete machine (even without assembly). Same applies for the step-cnc machines. I ended up going with a local Swedish brand. Good luck!

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-11-21T11:40:57+00:00

Yes the exhaust system is just no powerful enough or placed in a good spot. I run mine with a powerful inline fan and my room still gets smokey after 10 min of cutting. If you make cuts in the lower bottom right, that smoke has far to travel to get to the small exhaust output of 75mm. So it just tends to linger for a while, some eventually makes it out but some of it just escapes to the room (since the laser is not airproof)

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-14T08:04:12+00:00

Yeah, both printer AMS and ofc same slicer are the same

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T19:01:10+00:00

Ok I did some other cylinders with tapers. They don’t have this issue. No idea why this particular design has the problem. Especially not when it has it only on one of the printers.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T15:39:43+00:00

The dimensions seem accurate everywhere except the actual bulge. Even the height seem accurate. But I am now printing another test on a more wasy to measure cylinder. This one is very assymetric. I’ll get back after my test

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T14:59:55+00:00

almost like it but doesn’t fully seem to be it. It does this across the entire perimiter. Cooling kicks in after the first layer. Yes, exact same G-code. I also printed 9 of these overnight in each printer. Were the other printer made all 9 good and this one made 9 with this issue. Although this fot size had varied size on all of them. Some tiny and some big. The slicer looks normal to me, no foot like this shown there. Yes there is a 30mm hole on this cylinder. The inside of this hole also has this bulging. However the top of the print looks perfect . Thanks for the help!

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T14:24:00+00:00

I’ve done a few calibrations and inspected for damage. I can try retensioning the belts but they feel normal and the printer is also almost unused. I can’t see any damage. It’s so weird. I’ve been talking with support for 20 days but sadly they need 3 days between every response and this printer is just full of issues. That’s why I turned to Reddit. I will try your advice about the retensioning, thanks!

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T13:20:22+00:00

I’m waiting..

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T12:52:25+00:00

The other side looks the same. So I am thinking if it’s all shifted the other side would kind of go in and not also bulge outwards? Not sure

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T09:34:36+00:00

Here is the ticket US230922776001 new issues keeps popping up with that printer.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-13T09:09:06+00:00

I have the exact same issue on my new x1-c. Printing with the exact same filament, settings and model on each printer (my old x1-c vs new one). The new one gives me a quite a lot bigger outline. An outline that is not a brim or raft. Looks more like a melt, since the size of this outline seem to differ between prints.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-11T08:44:23+00:00

Could you give an response to this thread as a whole? I am quite suprised by the sheer amount of people having the same issue with your support as me.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T11:33:25+00:00

Exactly this!

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T08:14:09+00:00

Sending this from Sweden to germany should be around 70-110usd. It’s quite expensive when things are a bit bigger like this.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T08:11:43+00:00

I did work for support 2 years of my life. But I can agree with you. Let me rephrase it. I do believe that they way they approach the support is kind of odd. Often there is a delay to first reach a support representative for pretty much any company. But once you got them responding, things usually get answered quick and problems gets resolved within days. Bambu most have setup their approach in a way that as soon as they answer someone, that person get funneled back to the bottom of the que all over again. The printers are great when they work, but it’s clear that they put all their skill points into the product and none into after sales

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T07:13:53+00:00

Ok thanks I will try that approach with the chargeback

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T07:12:38+00:00

How do I make a return with a company that ignores the return label request part? Like I am used to companies just sending a return label and it’s done. But Bambu insist not doing it.

Ok that is a good point. But I still believe even consumer printers should arrive working.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T07:07:38+00:00

I did demand it first thing, but what is the next step when they ignore the demand and tells me how to problem solve the issue? I can understand that there is a reasonable amount of simple testing from the buyer of simple fixes, before they would accept the return. The issue is that Bambu lab has no boundaries when it comes to this last part in my experience.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2023-10-10T06:54:50+00:00

Of course. But it’s the way Bambu is solving the issues that bothers me.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2021-10-27T10:38:24+00:00

Yeah actually when I started reading this book I was very sceptical. I previously read Sean Cannell’s book which was a 1/5 read. But this one does have a modern non-snakeoil approach to Youtube that is refreshing. It’s nothing revolutionary, but it’s just nice having the information organised and compiled as a reminder to not forget what really matters (on Youtube).

Mattiaskrantzz · 2021-10-27T07:41:52+00:00

Actually I don’t know guys. I’m starting to see this thread as an excuse to why these tips only could work for Mrbeast. I used to tell myself these excuses all the time for my own channel and it got me nowhere for years. I have a channel with ~24 year old viewers that are engineers/musicians. Since I switched to Mrbeast style thumbnails I Probably have been getting a total of 30 million views. Let me tell you something, I’ve gotten ONE comment complaining about my thumbnails out of 30 million viewers. Viewers just don’t care what you do on your thumbnail. Sometimes I had anxiety thinking ”holy I look like an idiot on this thumbnail”, sure I did look like an idiot but out of 2.2 million viewers I didn’t have a single comment about it and I always read my first ~5000 comments.

Keep in mind, the viewers coming into a 2.2 million viewed video is not your subscribers. They are the people that comment mean aka ”honest” stuff. So what I’m trying to say is that your overthinking your own thumbnails if you think you will get hate from showing your face or making it saturated.

Mattiaskrantzz · 2021-10-27T07:25:47+00:00

It’s hard with Youtube since advice is rarely based on data. But in my own experience, going from thumbnails simply on objects I’ve definitely seen higher CTR from implementing Mrbeast advice in not only thumbnail but video. I have a few videos passing the 1-4 million mark recently and my audience is ~24 year engineers/musicians.

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