WEEFUN Upgraded Tina2 3D Printer, Auto Leveling DIY 3D Printers for Beginners, Fully Open Source with Resume Printing, LCD Screen and Removable Magnetic Build Plate, Work with PLA/PLA Pro/TPU Filament

The media could not be loaded. I recently found a small plastic part on a machine that I use regularly had broken off and rendered it useless.I was about to fix it with some epoxy resin and a sharp knife when somebody mentioned to me that I might consider a 3D printer to replicate the part. The machine I was trying to repair was worth £150, and this printer cost £170, so it was a no-brainer as I could use it for multiple tasks in the future if I could master it (and I have plenty of these tasks).I haven’t done Computer Aided Design since about 1984 (when it took the best part of a week to ‘draw’ something on a mainframe computer). I got out of that game shortly afterwards and got into accountancy, so haven’t designed anything since, other than on paper (my old Technical Drawing O-Level never left me).It still took me a day or so to get my head around the software for 3D printing (TinkerCad, and then the WeeFun proprietary download), but once I understood the principles, I could design something in about 10 minutes; something that would have taken seven days some 40 years ago!I did a bit of research and landed on this machine because it seemed to have good reviews (it wasn’t in the Black Friday deal, but had better reviews than the machines that were). It may be perfect for children who can absorb tuition relating to these, but it’s also an excellent bit of kit for us grown-ups for making small parts that happen to break around the house.It's not the largest machine, but its perfect for small jobs.If I were to buy it again, I would probably spend another £20 and buy the WiFi version to save on having to remove and insert the memory card which worries me in case I wear it out.I did struggle slightly with getting the software to open on my Mac because it wasn’t recognised as ‘safe’, and the manufacturer’s website was a bit lacking with regard to instruction, but on the whole, it was a very positive experience.The machine doesn’t come with a dust cover, but a supermarket carrier bag overcomes this.For me, this gadget will pay for itself in a matter of days as I regularly have to buy small parts for stuff, and only just discovered that there are online libraries of useful things to print (Thingiverse). I can't understand why I didn't buy one of these machines years ago.

The media could not be loaded. 2 years on and works as good as day one.Have had to physically do anything to it. I’ve found it likes eSun PLA+ at 210c and 225c for the first layer. At 100mmsI’ve found blue painters tape works well for the bed. Get the 3M stuff as the cheap stuff doesn’t work well.

I'm experienced in 3D printing and purchased this for my son who wanted to have his own project.Firstly, the printer states you have to use two of the supplied slicing tools, slicing is a software process that transitions the design file to data that is readable by the printer.Both slicers regularly break or 'tear' the design, rendering it unprintable. This can be fixed by using a well established slicing programme like Orca or Prusa which have more fully featured functions, but the results are wild. One example is in the picture, the first print is near perfect, the second printed straight after is unfinished and evident of poor heat control.Don't try printing multiple objects - it all turns into spaghetti.For the price of this people should be looking at a Bambu A1 mini which is a well established brand that has a proven track history.I'll be returning it later today.

Started using within 10 minutes of its arrival. Very little to set up. Childs play even for someone with no experience of 3d printing. This is the basic so no wifi but not needed. There could be a lot more examples to print rather than the half dozen supplied on the tf card. It's not the quietest by a long margin and the print speed is very slow but I found lots of models on Thingiverse and have been printing like a mad man, Cannot handle very fine detail but for the price - a great starter.

I got this in the hopes of being able to print a few miniatures for a few projects I'm doing but it really wasn't adequate for my needs.1. It's quite fiddly to use not in relational setting up but when you want to find a STL program or file to actually print out you have to go into a certain program obviously download it to your own computer then obviously slice it use the slighter that they provide then you've got to save it to the to the little mini SD card then you've got to put it machine so in that respect it's a lot of mucking around2 the actual slicing program that comes with is not a true representation of the size of the item that you're trying to print out so even though you've got various angles and sizing options on the actual screen it doesn't actually tell you how big it's going to print out on the actual machine itself so a couple of times even though I've thought something was quite big it's printed out very very small and vice versa something I thought was very very small and tried to be printed out very very big so in that respect it's quite difficult to use as well3 I did manage to get a couple of prints which were okay but to be honest after three or four prints it was just started to go bubbly and and it really wasn't printing out at all and I lost all hope in it in the end to be honest and I'm sending it back now for a full refund although the machine is quite small and compact to use it really isn't practical if you want to do a lot printing. In short don't bother with this machine.