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Prusa3D Core One assembled from kit ( https://www.prusa3d.com/product/prusa-core-one-kit/ ) in roughly 36 hours, including 5 hours of sleep and frequent toddler-herding

Quite fun and satisfying

I did make a few mistakes, but wholly my own, and avoidable by reading the actual instructions

Benchy test print (15 minutes) is complete, so I guess I can start planning holiday show-bag gifts for nieces and nephews

  • The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    81·
    24 days ago

    You spent 30+ hours working on assembling this, or you finished it 36 hours after starting it, but spent a lot of time focusing elsewhere as well?

    • jokeyrhyme@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      7·
      24 days ago

      Howdy!

      In the Core One kit, the only pieces that are already assembled for you are things that would need soldering, e.g. electrical components like PCBs and motors

      Everything else is separate and needs to be screwed together carefully with the hundreds of different screws they provide :)

      It’s my first time assembling such a project, and my other issue is that I have a very curious toddler that was playing games with me and with the pieces when I wasn’t looking: I’m sure a much faster assembly time is possible with dedicated focus and not having to frequently stop a child from hurting themselves

      • The_Hideous_Orgalorg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        51·
        24 days ago

        And I subtracted those hours and more from my question in the first place. Still a strange way to count your time. The title gives a sticker shock of taking 36 hours to assemble the kit. How much time did it actually take to do so? Five or six hours spread across a day and a half? Could it have been less if a focused effort could have been afforded? I am just surprised at the idea that it could have taken more than an hour or two, frankly.

        • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          23 days ago

          You have a valid point about 36 hours being crazy, but an hour or two is also crazy. The kits are not in 3 pieces instead of 1, they are in pieces, and the parts come in bags like Legos. My Mk3s+ took me 10 solid hours to assemble.

        • morbidcactus@lemmy.caEnglish
          3·
          24 days ago

          Building my v2.4 was spread out across multiple days, I didn’t rush anything. A lot of that time was spent making sure everything was square, tramming the gantry, cabling took a while. There’s a lot of small fiddly stuff, bearings that you’ll not want to damage, things you don’t want to accidentally pinch so while you could probably bang out a kit pretty quick once you’ve had some experience, I’d still really want to take my time with it, put time and care into the assembly and it’ll pay off with quality and reliability.

          And to be fair to the total time I spent, I spent time trying to understand how things all worked together while assembling it, active assembly time was only a fraction of it.