Honest help for the 3D printer in your home

Plain, owner-to-owner help with a home 3D printer: setting it up, choosing filament, fixing failed prints and printing safely. I write only about what I have done myself, and I never invent test results.

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Ferris, my first printer: an open-frame printer with a marigold spool on its top bar

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I am still writing the first guides, so there is nothing to list here yet.

Who writes this

I am Nell Barrow. I learned to print on Ferris, an open-frame printer I bought secondhand from a neighbor, and he still runs in my spare room. When I quote a spec, it comes from the maker's own sheet. If I have not tested something, I say so.

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