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Originally Posted by AustinH
Has anyone had any luck using blue painters tape on the glass print bed? I heard suggestions to use that over the provided "glue".
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The glue seems to work fine for us, so long as the room temperature isn't too cold, so we haven't had to try the painters tape method.
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Originally Posted by mman1506
I've read that they've updated the firmware so it keeps track of how much filament and will stop reading the cartridge chip after it is used up.
In all honesty while it's not in the "spirit of FIRST" we will probably end up selling ours. I already own a 300$ Makibox A6 printer that can do ABS and PLA with the same performance as the cube.
We would rather sell it for 1000$ buy a second Makibox for 300$ and use the 700$ to buy filament at 1/10th of the price.
It's really a shame that 3D systems isn't selling the filament at cost to FIRST teams.
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You can downgrade the firmware to avoid the issue.
Doesn't the Makibox have a smaller build space than the cube? I looked at the Makibox myself when I was considering 3D printers, but I always thought it looked too small to do anything useful with, and the slack in the extruder positioning system made me worry about consistency.
Personally, if we were to sell our Cube, I think we would probably go with something like a 3rd Gen Solidoodle printer for the bigger build space.