Preface: I’m on my third cheap printer in the past ten years. I bought an Anycubic kobra neo a few years ago. I told myself I wouldn’t mess with doing anything to it, but I was running into issues because of low quality control. I put it away due to frustration for the past year and now needed to print something and just figuring out all the issues. Right now I’m looking into upgrading the part cooling fan as I cannot get rid of stringing even on low temps with PLA. I should just buy a good printer but I just don’t feel like I can justify it.
I heavily modified my Ender 3 pro, after breaking it for the last time I said fuck it and I’m getting a printer with all the features I want built in and not fucking with it. I’m perfectly content with my Ender 3 S1 pro. Auto bed leveling and direct drive are pretty much the only things I want, and it’s got them and was cheap.
Now the only thing I modify is my gcode.