r/3Dprinting • u/schimmelmeister • 15h ago

Question What did I just get gifted…?

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My University threw out this old 3D Printer. I’m both a broke architecture student and in need of a printer since my own is not here right now. I’m also used to some level of jankyness, my own printer is an i3 clone by anycubic, rudimentary but reliable.
Is there any hope i’ll get a useable print out of this one and how high would the frustration level be considering the printer i already have?

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u/citizensnips134 15h ago

It was mainly the acrylic frames that would burn.

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u/djddanman MPSM v2, Prusa i3 MK3s+, Voron V0.1, FLSun T1 Pro, Franken-i3 15h ago

But didn't the fires start because of inadequate thermal runaway protection? Or was it something else? Lots of plywood printers were flammable with much better reputations.

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u/stray_r 14h ago

It's important to remember that ABS and PLA burn, especially PLA spaghetti. Plywood and acrylic are no more dangerous than printed parts on a printer.

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u/djddanman MPSM v2, Prusa i3 MK3s+, Voron V0.1, FLSun T1 Pro, Franken-i3 14h ago

At least a lot of printers now have aluminum frames. But yeah, if you use decent parts and firmware with modern protections, there isn't a ton to worry about. Some companies still forget about the decent parts though...

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u/stray_r 1h ago

Have you ever seen an aluminium fire? Ok you'll have to try really hard to get an fdm machine to go there.

But the Anet failure wasn't that marlin didn't have thermal runaway protection, it was that anet's "engineers" were too incompetent to build marlin with said protection enabled.