They must’ve really done a number on you, huh?

Which one? I have an i3 mega s (I think that’s the name) and it’s pretty basic and slow, but built relatively well. After however many hours of printing some of the bearings have failed, but they were easy and cheap to replace.

Sounds really cool and useful, but wouldn’t we also need non planar slicing and maybe a 4th axis for the full potential?

Germany’s Craigslist equivalent.

Sometimes you have to be patient for the good deals to show up. And usually there is no shipping. So some hidden cost in transportation and time may exist.

I bought my printer used, it only cost me 50€. Although I had to replace a bearing in the extruder.

Depending on the offers in your area that might be an option. Or I just got very lucky who knows…

All my petg experience is with a .6 nozzle, printing on a glass bed, but there’s some takeaways that hopefully apply to a .2 one…

Going very slow and increasing extrusion width helps a lot. And keeping acceleration low-ish, decreasing travel speed too much doesn’t help ofc. The narrow extrusion of a .2 nozzle reduces the surface area of a single line even more, so probably you need to increase the line width even more.

Additionally, I’ve read somewhere that petg kinda likes to stick to brass but not glass. So having the bed as hot as you can get away with for the first layer and the nozzle as cool helps too.

What PLA resists deformation when subjected to boiling water?