Seems like a reasonable buy. I might just give myself a Christmas present subject to a bit of reading up.Thanks for bringing it to the attention of the "club".

Rik

To be clear, from what I can see it seems that £300 is about the normal going price for this printer. I suspect the implication is that it is "as good as other printers that cost £900" although I'm not in a position to comment on that comparison. However, I'd rather buy it from Aldi than some overseas fly-by-night on ebay for the same price.

Murray

As pointed out you can get the wanhao I3 from a UK supplier for less than £300 – doubt if the Aldi clone is significantly better or worse than the UK supplied version but the UK supplier is a specialist 3d printer outlet that offers support.

What I do know is the i3 is a very competent printer out of the box and without much finessing. cant say if it is as good as £900 printers but I bet there are some high cost printers that are not as good as the i3. I would suggest it is slightly stiffer than a Prusa, but not by much. Y axis can be improved though.

I used mine to produce some very serviceable MXL timing gears to drive a mini wood lathe (the picador pup no less!) and a bunch of 20 DP gears for the M7 (well not actually for the M7 but for an EW to replace the absurd DP16 set that came with the EW). Plus a whole bunch of other bits an pieces, mainly PLA. The supplied bed/print head will get hot enough for ABS, but not nylon

Not perfect by any means and all modestly priced 3d printers suffer the old engineering bugbear of a lack of rigidity, but this can be addressed if required, also in the case of the i3, the stated print height was a slight exaggeration more like 170mm than 200..

However, I was well pleased with it so far and you can use it 1/2 and hour after unpacking.

If new to this recommend you do your research etc

Think I may try it. My Fisherdelta has pretty much worn out.

Jim

But, and it's a big one, as big as Kim Kardashian's in fact.

A new board for my Factory 3D Prusa I3 Clone is between £7.50 and £50.00 depending on your choice of Arduino flavour, the Wanahao board is £150 and you don't have a choice

Yes, I have that choice and so do you but lots of people that 3D print wouldn't know where to start on modifying the Marlin config, compiling and loading it onto their shiny new Arduino 😀

I guess that's a 'no' then!