Thank you ! I spoke to my brother in law shortly after posting . He said the same and linked the pro model with a 20 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm 8 x 8 x 8 area that also does ABS I might not remember it ' s name properly , suggested an arduino hack to allow it to use other filament as he ' s done that to his . TBH at that point I disconnected from the product . To get started I ' d rather buy a secondhand model that is preassembled and just works , but I don ' t feel as an outsider like enough is explained in detail . Consumable cost Maintenance costs Basic Operation fine with selfteaching to get me to a point where I know if I want to go further or not Emotionally I would like to have a 3 D printer at some point in the next halfadecade as I do think they have a remarkable potential to transform medical , utility and design services . What I am not sure at this stage is if market saturation is high enough and maturity good enough at the price point I ' d find acceptable to test on . He also told me it takes ~ 40 hours for some of the things he prints to complete . WTF that ' s an insane amount of time . I ' d be fine with 30 minutes , maybe 5 hours like a complex large CNC might take with mistakes . Am I being wholely unreasonable in my longterm vision ? Is it just that the market is not there now and it will take time ? Thank you again . This whole thing has my head spinning .