I Broke a $38,000 3D Printer

The 3D Platform 300 Series Workbench Pro is a BEAST. 1 meter on X, 1 meter on Y, and 0.7 meter on Z. DUAL EXTRUDER with a high-flow 300 watt hot end. 220 Volt and 30 AMP. WOW!

So, what should I print?

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[ricketron]

Somehow, this material that's well known for inseparably bonding itself to bare glass has inseparably bonded itself to bare glass. Truly baffling!

[MakersMuse]

Seems like that bed surface is in desperate need of changing... like a huge PEI springsteel sheet maybe? Expensive yes, but it's already 38K!

[tgibriday]

We can't really judge the quality of this printer until we see a 1 meter long Benchy.

[Tuxmc]

Printing a chair and seeing just how much weight it can hold would be so cool.

[Hawk]

This, Joel, THIS is the printer to turn out a GIANT rubber band rocket from your ladt Fan Mail Friday¡! It would be glorious!!!! Do it! Do it! it!

[cobusgrobler]

Isn't PETG one of those things you do not print directly on glass

[guythejedi]

Dinosaur bones then bury them all over town.

[vit.budina]

PETG: 'is known for welding itself to glass'
Joel: Doo dee, dum da lee, first thing I print will be PETG

[lipvandip]

$38k machine comes with magigoo
Joel: hmm, it's only 38k, i'll wing it without

[ThatGamerCher]

To the man who is courageous enough to reveal his mistakes and lessons learned along the way... I salute you. 🤗

[YunFuriku]

Joel has magic touch for breaking things

[tribaldragon]

Hi Joel!

We use an older version of that printer at work and had the same outcome with PETG. Went we have to print PETG, we use a sheet of MIC6 1/4" aluminum on top of the glass with a custom start script to take into account the extra thickness in Simplify3D.

G1 Z6.8 F100
G92 Z0

6.8mm is the thickness of the sheet we got.

PETG seems to create micro-fractures in the glass when printing large models.

[rothery]

I want to see a reaction video of you telling them that you broke the bed glass on the first print due to not using a release agent with PETG

[LanceMiller]

A complete set of Stormtrooper armor, all in one print!

[juliancannizzaro]

Break the record and make it count. Go big or go home. Making a scaled version of yourself would be awesome too but bigger is better

[theoblanks]

This seems like a huge waste, print quality honestly isn't that great for 38k kind of disappointing

[ualdayan]

Misread that at first as 'I bought a $38, 000 3D printer', then read it correctly as 'I broke', then realized it's the same thing. You broke it, you bought it!

[squirrelrobotics]

Why does this $38, 000 Industrial, 3D printer NOT have a removable build plate and ABL?

[KenSikora]

I've destroyed a borosilicate bed the same way with PETG, and it scarred me for life. Only cost me $80 to replace the bed, but at the time, it felt like $38, 000.

[frijoli]

That is likely the crappiest 38, 000 dollar machine I have seen.