@StopSpazzing To make it short: Get rid of it if you don't need it
If you want to have a working printer:
- If you've time but no money: Fix it
- If money for a new printer is not a problem: Replace it
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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You sound like you are looking for the justification to buy a new printer. If your current machine is preventing you from making the things you want, get something that will allow you to make those things.
You want recommendations? Prusa, what you get beyond the initial price is worth it. Bambu, the Apple of the 3d printing world, lock in included at no extra cost. Qidi, a cheaper printer with features that make printing more difficult engineering filaments easier.
To start with I would put it back to stock.
I got a new centauri carbon a few months ago and I got to print maybe 10 things and then the shitty USB connected print head fried its PCB and the main board as well so I've Been waiting on parts since then. It worked really good before it broke I guess. I'd get a different brand next time.
Definitely consider if you'll use it enough to justify the purchase, but buying a new one and spending the effort that you would have used trying to mod the old one could be better used on the new machine getting functional prints and advancing your skills.
This is basically me and several people I know who all grew tired of the constant tinkering and print failures and quit using their printers almost completely before upgrading to the new crop of printers that just work (in our case Bambu) without all the fuss. I now have 3100 print hours on my X1C after about a year and a half which is probably 2-3 times the usage of my old Artillery Sidewinder after 3.5 years of ownership and tons of mods.
Auto bed levelling (it usually doesn't level anything but just uses a probed bed mesh to compensate) and pressure advance is basic klipper functionality that is available to you with your existing hardware
You do need a cheap accelerometer to use it though. They are cheap, but still an added cost.
Not for pressure advance or bed meshing
Klipper can't do a bed mesh if the printer doesn't have a probe.
Manual bed leveling means using a sheet of paper and adjusting bed screws to get it at the right height.
Exactly, and neither of those are an accelerometer like the other user claimed is required
He's using the wrong words. No printer has an accelerometer.
Automatic bed leveling requires a printer support it. Klipper can't do it if the hardware isn't there. Same with flow rate calibration. Manual in Klipper requires test prints and then editing the config files. Flow rate on modern printers is calibrated automatically using the camera.
No printer has an accelerometer.
Of course they do, mine has one from the manufacturer (Qidi Xmax3) and I added one to my old bedslinger from anycubic. It is extremely common today that printers come with accelerometers built in to the toolhead board. Basically every consumer coreXY printer on the market today has this and I bet many bedslingers have them too.