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Howard_Casto:
For frame stability is was just going to mount the whole thing on some laminated wood. I think I have part of a countertop lying around somewhere.

I think I've got everything ordered. I still need to order a spatula to remove prints and unfortunately spatula city is no longer in business. ;) I was looking into pcb milling and some people have add success using the i3 to mill with a large dc motor and spindle. I've probably got that crap lying around. I'm also looking into 3d scanning... it hasn't progressed much since the last time I looked. A laser pointer/camera combo still seems to be the way to go.

05SRT4:
I ended up putting mine downstairs in our spare bedroom closet. I am not sure if your is going to be as loud as mine. The Printrbot Simple Metal gears have a really high pitch to them, gets super annoying after awhile.

The Printrbot has a built in auto level but I had too many issues with it. I just took out the auto level gcode command and threw in some nuts and screws and just manually adjust it. Ive never had leveling issues since.

As mentioned earlier in the thread Hatchbox PLA is my go to filament. Can get it shipped in a couple days through Amazon Prime and consistency has been good.

I was going to get a glass build plate but once I upgraded to a heated build plate I stopped having warping or peeling issues. Now I just slap on some painters tape and I am good to go. (Image shows kapton tape instead, this is when I first upgraded the build plate size, pre auto level fix)

Scanning is also my next thing but the ones I really want are like 5K and up.

SammyWI:
I have mine mounted to some 3/4" plywood I had laying around. I cut pieces of rubber gasket material to put between the printer and the wood then got some stick on rubber feet for under the plywood. Works well and probably helps dampen noise and vibration. I used this stuff but got it at a local hardware store: https://www.amazon.com/Danco-59859-Rubber-Packing-Sheets/dp/B000PS9Z8A/ref=sr_1_10?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1480866712&sr=1-10&keywords=rubber+sheet

The Anet A8 has been quieter than my Printrbot original. I have it in the basement in an unfinished workbench area. But it is directly below our bedroom. My wife says she can't hear it at all in the bedroom. I can just barely hear a few bits if it's quiet and I concentrate but it doesn't bother me for sleeping.

I just got the heated bed plug worked out. It is a 6 pin plug with only 4 used. The two outside plugs are bed power, the two innermost pins are for the thermistor. But the two unused pins are soldered in to the heatbed just unused on the wire side of the plug. (Somebody on a FB group saw this.) So I added two connectors and wires back to the Mofset and I now have 4 wires for heating the bed and the plug sides and wires have gone from warm to the touch to room temperature. Soldering the wires directly is still probably a better way to go but I really didn't want to take the bed off since it has been printing so well. The bed plug is a JST VH series (or a copy of one). I got parts from Digikey (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/jst-sales-america-inc/SVH-41T-P1.1/455-1319-1-ND/608888).

Another project I've been considering is a laser cutter / engraver. I won't be able to get the power to cut very heavy material but I wonder how much I could cut with slow speeds and multiple passes. My old Printrbot may be donating parts.

Howard_Casto:
So for anyone interested I assembled my anet the other day. It took two afternoons, but some of that had to do with the fact that I stupidly used the instructional videos on the site I ordered it from instead of the ones on the included sd card. These bad boys are getting revised faster than the vendors can keep up with. It wasn't particularly hard, but if you want to save yourself a big headache, go ahead and take all the nuts and tape them in place on the slots in the acrylic panels to hold them in place. I'd say 50% of my time was used up trying to get the little sobs in place. Cable management is also an issue. The included wraps work, but they are kind of ugly and some of the cables are waaaay too long, so you have to fold them up and manage them somehow. I'm thinking of re-routing mine around the board so that it looks better.... perhaps I'll run them behind the board to take up some of that slack.

Overall I'm extremely impressed with the build quality for something so inexpensive. There are a couple of head scratching design flaws, but they can be fixed easily by just printing out parts. I would show an example print, but like an idiot I somehow managed to order 3mm filament instead of 1.75mm. So to be continued I guess.

05SRT4:
Good to hear you got it running. So beside all the little knick-knacks you'll print is there any major projects lined up to print?

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