Alright I'm leaving my last post up so that my enthusiasm can be documented. Do not buy the Anet A8 without making significant modifications. Friday morning I woke up and went to check a print job that I had started the day before. Even with a fast printer, jobs for this sort of project can take between 12-24 hours. Walking out to my workshop I saw that it was on fire. I (stupidly) ran in and grabbed the fire extinguisher to try and put it out, and somehow managed to as it hadn't yet spread too far. I then called the fire dept who sent one old dude with no PPE to come spray all of my equipment (burnt or otherwise) down with water. Guess nobody was there because of the virus but whatever. It was pretty obvious that the printer had started the fire, but not immediately obvious how. looking at the burnt pile of slag on the floor it seemed to have either started on the power supply or the motherboard. Anet's explanation boiled down to "Yeah they tend to catch on fire when they get old sorry bud," which isn't great but I appreciate the honesty. That being said, if you google "Anet A8 fire" you will come up with many, many results of how unsafe the base design is. There are alterations that you can make the improve the safety, but honestly you would just be off buying a printer that doesn't burst into flames when it gets old. I lost pretty much all of my tools, several armor components, my printer, and most of my materials in the fire, so sadly this project is discontinued for now as I no longer have the funds or the equipment to work on it. I'm sorry all, but thank you for staying with me up to this point, and keep a fire extinguisher close by. Also don't run into burning workshops that was just dumb.