My first 3D Printer should arrive in ~10 days, anything else I need to buy or get before it arrives? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml

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I'm pretty excited, I ordered the Kobra X, along with 9kg of various colour filaments.

I'm wondering if I'm missing some stuff like bed glue, a scraping tool or things I haven't even thought of. What do I need in preparation?

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[-] confuser@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

I also consider a caliper necessary too, igaging is a good brand I like, I have their 8 inch digital one.

Besides for 3d printing I also use it for sosososo many things, its like now thst I have it, I can use it for everything and it makes life so much nicer.

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