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If you want to stay budget..... I highly recommend you the TEVO Tarantula - there is an owners group with over 20k people and it cost you 200USD shipped with DHL Express :-)

http://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/neY7yRf6e

You print a few upgrades and it prints like a 5000USD machine - the owners group is also awesome, help everyone to get it running :-)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TEVO.3dprinter.owners/

That is unbeatable and group alone worth the money!

Sounds good - will give it a good consideration. Hopefully Steem will go up high enough for me to fund this printer!

When want one TEVO Tarantula I can for sure get you some discount as I am the admin of the independend fb owners group with 30k people :-)

The printing of upgraded parts to make it go even better sounds like a really good article in the making :)

Yeah in fact you need not a lot - maybe brackets for mounting on table and some fan duct for the nozzle fan (so the one what points on extruded plastics).

It is really a great machine as you find already hundrets of ready-to-print parts on Thingiverse (for free). So community started to see it as platform and now you can make a 5k USD machine out of a 200usd :-)