I presently have 2.5 Cetus 3D printers. That means two that work and one damaged by a lightning strike. Insurance replaced the broke one with new. About $300. They are not terribly expensive. Many 3D printers can cost 10 time that amount.  I am repairing the blown up Cetus. However, no guarantee. I have bought new all the repair parts out of my own pocket.. Far better to replace the entire printer than repair but I just can't throw away the old hardware. It's hopefully just the electronics that were fried. New parts have to come from China, since it is the original Cetus and no parts are stocked in the USA. That may take a month as I figured it was not...

I am sitting here after filling a few on-line store orders for my customers. I am watching "MamaCetus" (My 3D Cetus (brand) printer doing her thing. She's very slow because that IS her thing, using only 150 micron layer height. BUT she is producing outstanding 3D printing. I do almost all my printing these days at 150 microns. Sometimes I drop to 100 microns. The penalty is very long print times. The reward is very nice looking prints. When I started printing several years ago, I thought 300 microns was the normal height to print. (it was...) I considered 200 microns a venture into extreme printing. I thought 100 and 150 micron layers were impossible territory. Boy, was I wrong.. At the time...