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  • As Meno said, you don’t have to tell anyone.

    As for yourself, it’s something that you’ll have to accept about yourself but don’t look at it as a label. You are who you are, a diagnosis of anything is just an explanation of why you are who you are.

    Remember, a diagnosis doesn’t give you anything accept awareness.














  • My first printer was an Anycubic Vyper and I feel like it was pretty perfect for my beginner self. I was abke to put it together, do some very minor tweaking, and got it running decent quality with minimal to no issues. There’s also sales regularly on their site. I picked one up for 250 USD. And their customer service is truly spectacular. Once I started tweaking the printer for quality I found a few minor issues about a year and a half after purchase. They sent me replacements and I got them within a few days.

    For your use case, it may be pretty good.i ended up changing/modding quite a bit eventually on it but I didn’t need to if I wanted to go with just printing test and consept parts.


  • Well, shit.

    Looking at some of that stuff real quick, at face value, I’m really liking these options and features. This will be a good start with the Ender as I’ve got my Vyper setup for things that I need quality in and don’t care about speed.

    I think I’ll move the Ender to Klipper and get out set for speed and useful prints over cosmetic needs. It’s been annoying printing a bracket or clip with those settings and a .2mm nozzle that takes 8 hours when I know I can get it printed in at least half the time.

    Thanks a ton for the suggestions and your input. These kind of changes and modding were exactly what I wanted to do with my Vyper a while ago but didn’t because it was my only printer and already tuned.

    Fun times are ahead for Kronin!



  • Ender-3 pro 4.2.2 mainboard firmware (32 bit) 16 Jan. 2021”.

    Thanks for the input. I tried your suggestion and it didn’t load onto the board. When powering on it did the same as the other times I tried and just booted normally. I also have custom Marlin ready to compile and I think if that doesn’t work I will probably pick up a new mainboard. I opened it up and looked at the board itself to verify the hardware version before moving along with troubleshooting. I think I may need a new mainboard anyway because the USB port is all jacked up and I can’t get one in. I assume it’s probably broken and I’ll need it working for OctoPrint at some point.

    This printer was purchased through a 3rd party that sells returned Amazon printers with no returns and a warning “There could be any number of issues with what you get” kind of thing. It was only $80 USD. I knew what I was gambling on and honestly I probably would have purchased the same or similar off Craigslist or something at around the same price and knowing I would probably need to fix it up somehow. I’m not mad, just annoyed that someone would do that lol. It’s also my second (could consider my 3rd I suppose) printer and digging deeper to learn more about it all is an experience I’m enjoying and have been looking forward to. I may get another from the same store at some point.

    Thanks again for your help!