Talk:Orca v020

New Users, please beware that "Orca" is:
* experimental - it's only been produced at Mendel-Parts ( a commercial outfit), and has not been indepenantly verified as to its capabilities, quality, repeatability, etc.

• not experimental anymore - its been produced on alot of locations already *also outside Mendel-Parts*.

10+ users (most indepently from Mendel-Parts.com ) have verified its capabilities, quality, repeatibility.
And they were very happy and very impressed, they like Orca much, much more then Mendels, building/working/printing with it etc.
For that reason we yesterday decided to remove the experimental note, however some reprap users dont agree 
and put the above message on this page today, simply put: 
I hate politics, but if you change this page, make sure you know what you are talking about!

• not entirely a Reprap ( ie it is not self-replicating ) as it currently requires approximately 20+ laser-cut parts in order to be assembled, and we can not yet print laser-cutters. :-(

(Standard) Mendels also needs lasercut parts, (if you need 5, you also need a lasercuter.. and we cannot print those).
But I dont have time to play this game, some people work for a better world, some people just like to complain..

We expect that both these issues will be resolved soon, and we are pleased to see another RepRap variation taking shape, but it's early-dayts for this new design, and if you want a tried-and-tested model, we currently recommend either a "Prusa Mendel" or a "Classic/Sells Mendel", not this one.
Again if you dont know what you talk about, dont change this page please, but use the forums etc. We @ mendel-parts.com recommend Orca over the standard Mendel, because its so much easier to build, to work on / better manual etc.. in short: people are much more happy with an Orca, it prints better and is faster to setup (user comments, not my comment).

This whole message will move to the end of this page in a few days, because 90% of the people dont care about this at all and just think what a mess..
In General most (normal) users dont care about building a 3D printer, that is not their goal, they want to print 3D.

Something else I want to explain for once: running a production line of 6 or more printers is something else then having 1 or 2 printers.
We run in completely different problems, we find alot more issues etc. Printing 18h each day on 10 printers, or printing 18h a week on one printer is totally not comparable.