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But do you want it delivered in 2 days or 30 minutes?

The 2 days of waiting beats the 6 hours I'll spend cursing why the 3d printer isn't printing "just right" later today to be able to wait 30 minutes for it to finally print out a handful of them.

You need a Prusa.

I started with an Anet A8 which taught me a lot about 3D printers (and even more about how they fail!). My Prusa Mini just works, and it's rare I need to reprint anything.

I have a Prusa, it's great, except for when you need to replace something, I really wish they connectorized more stuff so that you could just swap out things in chunks. I had to replace my power supply and the wire mess sucked, I wish it were just a slide-in, "snap", plug connector and go.

Replacing nozzle is a bit of an ordeal as well.

Otherwise it's a great printer.

Clearly not written by an engineer.

A true engineer orders the part and then immediately starts trying to build it.

Well, well, well, if it isn't my unauthorized biography!

Fair point.

Nah, I have too many other ADHD projects on my brain to try to suddenly squeeze in "figure out the 3D printer again" ;)

I just cut off the broken connector and put on a new one in 2 minutes...

I actually thought the 2 days was for the 3d printer on first read. Are they not incredibly slow these days?

They're slow, but this part is also very small. 30 minutes is a pretty good estimate.

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