<div dir="ltr"><div><div>They are both very good printers. I know someone with an M2 and they swear by it. I have a Max 1.5+ and it works well, I am sure the 3 is much better.<br><br></div>However, I really think that printers with beds that move in any other axis but Z are a bit of a bad design. One problem you will run into is tall thin objects will sometimes fall over if you are printing fast. Printers like deltabots or ultimaker (or clones thereof) don't have this problem. Plus a non moving bed is a bit easier to level. YRMV.<br><br></div>Andre<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Robin Gilks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@gilks.org" target="_blank">robin@gilks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Greetings all<br>
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After lots of reading I'm still not sure where to invest my hard earned cash!<br>
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I'm looking for a mid range device so nothing basic and flimsy but<br>
assembling from a kit is not a problem.<br>
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So far I think the front runners are the MakerGear M2 and the MendelMax3.<br>
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Comments?<br>
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Robin Gilks<br>
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