>>2930360
kinda
extruder arm snapped after a month, so i used a bulldog clip to fill in until i coul;d print 2 replacements.
the bed heater wires sheared off at the bed, so i had to resolder those, and print up a strain relief, but after 2 years the solder pads tore off the bed, so for years i just had a cold bed, which was an ikea mirror covered in painters tape and glue stick, since the aluminium bed itself warped real quick.
the hot end kept snapping thermistor wires when homing, so i swapped it for a v6 clone (yes in PLA so it sagged) but the extra height meant i had to move the z-limit switch, which meant removing the x axis shield.
the v6 clone worked well, but needed extra cooling, as well as a parts cooling fan, so i ended up adding a whole new fan mount and ran wires for the fan, but since it was a v1 mainboard, the extra fan header had a resistor soldered on backwards, so it never worked, and after weeks of trying i gave up and just used the heatsink fan for parts cooling too (not great)
after all the tinkering i got to needing more print space for parts for the printer, so i printed up bigger bed mount (monoprice select maximum, lol), and extended out the x-axis until it sagged slightly, but the bed also sagged, so it mostly evened out.
but that extra weight killed the z-axis screw, so i swapped that out with a longer one and a printed sleave to expand the axis up, as well as move the extruder above the shell.
but all that weight up high meant to printer would rock at its extremes, so i cut the leadscrew down (bending it in the process) and put extruder back inside.
AND it was a v1 mainboard, so it had shit QC, hence the resistors soldered on backwards, they glued the female sockets to the male plugs, but those same sockets would just pull off the pins, so you had to kind of guess the polarity when plugging things in.
i ended up replacing the mainboard with a RAMPs board, but that was always temperamental with heat, so i ended up mounting it externally.