Preface: I’m on my third cheap printer in the past ten years. I bought an Anycubic kobra neo a few years ago. I told myself I wouldn’t mess with doing anything to it, but I was running into issues because of low quality control. I put it away due to frustration for the past year and now needed to print something and just figuring out all the issues. Right now I’m looking into upgrading the part cooling fan as I cannot get rid of stringing even on low temps with PLA. I should just buy a good printer but I just don’t feel like I can justify it.
@PriorityMotif With my Prusa machines, I only modified them to upgrade to the next versions. Prusa has a really nice set up so that when a new version comes out, you can purchase an upgrade kit to bring it up to parity with the latest version using mostly printed parts, or parts from the machine.
My Artillery X2 I had to modify day 1 to make it functional.
The Sovol Zero also needed mods to make it more usable, but they were mostly convenience upgrades for a better spool holder placement.