3DPrinting

Sorry for the reddit link, but this is a really cheap hack, to get a better frame.

Print some parts, add nuts and bolts and use a proper method to adjust the frame.

Other modifications:

• direct drive
• enclosure
• replace the main board or at least adjust the vRefs, check the main board version.
• use Klipper to let it calculate the compensation for linear advance
• print something like a brissfang (also compatible with a microswiss direct drive) to get better part-cooling.
• camera
• replace the bed springs with silicone

For the love of all that is holey make sure your axes are square and properly tensioned.

Also if adding auto levelling modify it so that it's at the same coordinates as the nozzle in Y (so measurements aren't altered by a non square and difficult to fix bed axis).

my shitty ol' Wanhaoni3 Plus

How dare you! Jokes aside, I had the same printer, in monoprice guize, for something like 6 years before recently using it to print Voron parts.

I don't own an ender, but from watching from afar they seem as community backed, and quirky, as the i3/i3 plus were back when we bought ours.

I personally found my i3 plus to be fairly reliable/consistent, but print quality was certainly not the best. Some of the design on the i3 is a little better than the ender 3 IMO (rods vs rollers, dual z, etc), but ender 3s do have some out-of-the-box features that weren't available back then like CR touch and an extruded frame).

I wish you well in your ender 3 journey. It's amazing how cheap they are. I got my i3 Plus on sale for $250 and with inflation that's $315 in today's dollars. Meanwhile an ender 3 V3 SE can be had for $220 on Amazon without looking for any kind of deals.