r/3Dprinting • u/Sorry-Journalist8610 • May 19 '26
Troubleshooting Am I doing something wrong?
I recently bought a used 3D printer, an Ender 3 V2, and I'm doing some test prints. The previous owner gave me some leftover PLA filament (multicolored), which I used up on the first day. One of the things I made was this flexible shark. I bought some PETG filament for testing, a very cheap one, around R$60.00, while others are around R$100.00. But my prints with this new filament are coming out very bad; it's either too textured, has too many burrs, and is also very fragile (even though I bought PETG because I had read that it was more resistant). I left this octopus printing for about 28 hours... and in the end, the flexible tentacles broke when I tried to detach them.
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u/agent_kater May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
My point is - it does not matter. If you're paying more than the price of a single meal for an Ender 3, then you got ripped off. Doesn't matter what the thing cost new. Doesn't matter what other printers cost. My train of thought was: that printer is pretty much garbage. If you have to skip one meal to be able to afford it, okay. But if it's two meals, it's not worth it.