No

Lowrider sucks too. Cncs are all about rigidity. You need a serious gantry to do stuff accurately. Root is the cheap way because it uses rollerskate bearings. Printnc is the expensive option, which uses linear rails.

Q1 pro has a filament wiper and a poop trashcan that you need to empty. You’ll do fine using them, they’re a great tool to use as a beginner, just get “quirks” that someone that googles can solve. For the x-plus for instance, the nozzle fan only blows from one direction so you need to print out a two directional one for better printing stability. Honestly, it was my first printer and I did great with it.

Nah that one sucks ass. Root 4 and later a PrintNC which I use currently to mill out molds n’such

Have an x-plus 1 and a q1 pro, both great printers that serve me well. Built a cnc machine on the x-plus lol. Abs works even with the non heated chamber, but the q1 pro has the heater for more reliability and more engineering plastics to print with. Also cheap as hell compared to bamboos. Ama if you guys want

Dude was just gatekeeping you and assigning you labels. Do what you enjoy, ignore the haters

A heat gun is enough to melt through plastic, there is no need for higher temperatures. You can do it with a hairdryer.

Seeing as you can do the exact same thing with a hairdryer, it’s inventing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

Well, if you aren’t a maker, then buying a tool like that rarely makes sense. Why buy a CNC mill if you won’t ever have a project for it? Printers simply became popular and sound cool to everyone. So everyone gets them and only prints toys

For me, better a faustian bargain than a bargain that doesn’t work at all

There are different cad packages that do everything that freecad does more intuitively, faster and neater. In addition they do a whole lot more than freecad does. I come from a “more technical understanding” - it just sucks compared to the competition.

I’ve been doing work in freecad for a year and a half, learning all the time. I also jumped on Solidworks for startups. Freecad simply doesn’t work for anything a tiny bit complicated. Both Solidworks and Fusion blow it out of the water in ease of use and reliability.

Which you don’t have to do with other programs. There stuff works. In FreeCAD, it doesn’t. And no, it isn’t as simple as “do it like the tutorials do”. Parametrization breaks all the time simply because you want to change a dimension halfway down the stack. It just sucks.

And yet most people using a cad package need to create very complex things instead.

Okay, sure it’s getting better. But the reality is - you need to be able to depend on your CAD to work. I’ve used FreeCAD a lot. It simply isn’t dependable and can’t do the same things a different cad package can. It’s parametric only by name.

Only thing FreeCAD is good for. And then you won’t be able to launch the project once an update hits.

Why should I? So I get even more combative comments from people that don’t know anything and go “nu uuuh I have done this and I’m fine”?

First of all, I didn’t say “bacteria” only. I said that there is a difference between injection molding food safe plastics, and 3d printing them. The difference is huge in the terms of surface quality, with a 3d prints’ layerlines being a great place for bacteria to form. And you don’t need to put wet stuff into it, to make it form bacteria. Simply put, injection molding makes a uniform surface - by the design of the process, during injection the plastic gets squished to the walls of the mold, with incredible pressure (700kgf on some “hobby” machines, like the Buster Beagle, imagine what a real, few tonne press can do). The process of 3d printing naturally lacks that, leading to a porous end result.

The process of 3d printing introduces contaminates into the plastic. The hotend is basically a huge chemical hazard. Especially if you don’t just print PLA. No amount of cleaning it can change that - burnt bits of plastic, especially on brass, are impossible to remove.

The process of printing also coats the model with tiny particles of plastic that are simply harmful to you when ingested.

Add in the fact, that PLA has other additives that are not food safe, and that you need an actual, certified roll to be “food safe”. Most colorings aren’t that. Most strength additives aren’t that.

Overall there are countless reasons to keep 3d printing away from your kitchen. It’s not “going to be fine”, it’s a health hazard.

I’ll repeat myself for a third time, and stop replying to angry people here - you do you. I wanted to warn people who might not know the risk, who are not in the plastics business. I’m not here to engage in discussions on how to bend health and safety for a project that is not worth it.

I know way more than you realize. As I said before - you do you. It won’t be me who ends up drinking plastic.

Yeah there is a way to say “this is a bad idea” without microbes tests. This is a bad idea, plain and simple. Just because you want to say otherwise, doesn’t mean you are right. It’s simply not food safe.

“rules” are there for a reason. But hey, it’s your health and safety, do whatever you want.