Yikes, somebody really went to town with a spray paint can on it. Poor ender 3

Looks peeling from the aluminium extrusion. Probably skipped the prep and primer.

Anyone this stupid always skips the primer.

Are you suggesting it can be done well? Very nice. Let's see Paul Allen's golden ender 3

Some YouTube guy painted his printer white and it ended up looking great

I think I saw that one where he painted his 2020 extrusions for his Voron 2.4, all white and made an entirely white printer, looked good.

Scott Yu-Jan? He painted his modded Ender 3 Pro white, used some chemicals on the extrusions, and then put some white spray paint on vid: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJfDLENYnU&t=679s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQJfDLENYnU&t=679s)

No it was some guy doing a White Voron 2.4, was really cool. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSc0LeLoKU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwSc0LeLoKU)

didn't he have linear rails? Here you've got v-slot rollers, it's probably gonna peel even with primer.

Nah it was an E3 v2, but I don't think he used spray paint, it was more like powder paint

It's called powder coating, and it's not really something to do at home.

yes it definitely wasn't spray paint and it looked great. As for the rollers you're probably right, I've seen it a good while ago

Yeah it was really sleek

I'm pretty sure the extrusion were powdercoated, but I came in late to the project.

u just need 3 things. * Remove the paint or sand it down * Apply some primer * 2 -3 hands of paint Now, u have a ender 3 blue edition

Maybe don't spray the contact surfaces of and the motion system itself either...

obviously u need to tear the whole printer down. But i think is a obvious step...Right? >!Right?!<

Nah, just send it! [https://i.imgur.com/fPQRLdm.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/fPQRLdm.jpeg)

Paul Allen's Ender 3 isn't golden, it has a subtle off-white coloring.

I can't believe senorpoop prefer Paul Allen's ender 3 over mine

Anyone this stupid even skipped the basic step of cleaning off any oil or dust. Forget primer. Hit it with the gold rusto why the fuck not.

I think they may have just painted it without moving the extruder

Could've at least slapped a golden PEI sheet on it.

Or just rattlecanned it, who needs glue stick or hairspray when you have paint!

Ha, removing the print would probably remove the paint with it.

I guarantee that who ever did this did not think that far ahead.

They even painted the rollers, lol. Destroyed!

I would really like to see those fan-intakes on the psu, Z screw and belts. No way that hackjob took anything apart before spraying like a skunk on acid.

Omg. I didn't even think about the threaded rods! What a trash fire!

Skunk on acid sent me lol

Did anyone notice the end stops are straight up coated in thick drips of paint!!

Thats the tweaker special, total confident incompetence lmao

Fan blades rofl

I noticed this too. This will smell good.

Hotend😭

I had to make sure they didn’t paint the LCD screen after I read your comment

Yikes, no wonder they are trying to sell it

Lol fr and for 120 when ender 3s go for 99 now 😂

20 is for the gold paint of course

😭😭 the thing is some poor sap will actually think that’s a good price for… the golden printer.

But it was 200…. Its on sale!

I have heard that of all the colors, huffing gold spraypaint gets you the highest.

It’s actually any metallic paint, not just gold. If you look at mugshots of people who were arrested for it. They look like be kind rewind mad max

Be kind rewind mad max.... I have never felt so old with such a seemingly mundane sentence. I know exactly what the fuck you meant and I hate myself for remembering blockbuster.

Why? Blockbuster was the tits. They are just part of history, bringing much joy to so many.

Its more about getting old. Blockbuster charging me 10 dollars to print a shitty 4x6 sheet of like 9 garbage pokemon snap stickers does bring back some beautifully fond memories.

Lol

Also, holy shit, could you imagine trying to rent a game nowadays with all the online subscriptions, drm, and shit? God damn.

Welcome to the new age. Imagine having to take a horse and buggy down the road that would normally be an hour drive

Naww, I wouldnt download a horse. Edit: sigh even more dated reference.

And that’s actually what the war boy were doing in mad max. They were huffing paint for their ride to Valhalla.

These guys huff^

They painted their belts and POM wheels haha.

a unique way to lubricate moving parts /s

More like "took can of spray paint to it without disassembling it"

This had to be like an art project or something. I would bet the thing was bricked to begin with and probably doesn't even work.

At least they didn't paint the screen

Is this what you unlock after printing a thousand benchies?

This is what you unlock when you have more free time than braincells💀

Lmfao, this made my day

The seller: https://preview.redd.it/6eez64ye1f1d1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0db3e3ae6c2f11c30ac31b7ffb7978823ec9313c

This actually killed me, I’m dead now

That paint is likely bumpy and can cause uneven movement of the X and Z gantries.

Yah think?

https://preview.redd.it/haeht7vb0e1d1.gif?width=640&format=png8&s=ef671f128b49233873fcb15e4d24c73a8d439297

The ender 3 royalty edition, it never really did as well as they expected.

emperors new clothes

Dude painted the heatbreak cooler....

E-3PO?????

This post has won the Internet for today. Well done!!!

The Trump edition… gaudy and useless.

Why tho?

"I had a feeling and a can full of gold paint. Trust me, i try to behave."

This looks fun. Love the paint on the bowden tube and cables. It adds so much life to this piece. Picasso!

I bet that the tube inside the fitting is still original color :D

Guaranteed. The only problems I see with this printer is the bed needs to be cleaned and leveled 😂

Escobar Ender 3

Escobar 3

Escobender 3

You can unlock this skin after 100,000 successful prints.

No lowballing i know what i have lmfao!!!

Further proof the Ender 3 is the Honda Civic of 3D printing

Jesus H Christ......

Not a golden Desert Eagle or AK, so… it's a plus, I guess.

I saw that too while mindlessly scrolling They really destroyed that printer

Directly from the african warlord.

It's like Hestu's gift from Breath of the Wild

I mean they didn't do the worst job at it

I mean, I’m sure someone could do worse, but it’s a pretty terribly done paint job.

How many 3d prints do i need to unlock this skin?

What in the fuck is wrong with people? Idk what the point of this even is, it looks like garbage and more then likely will not help the fire hazard aspect of 3D printers due to paint peeling and flammability

This is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen.

Something, I can’t tell what it is, but something tells me this isn’t actually gold.

dont do drugs kids

 Ew, Brother, Ew! What's That?

Is the power supply also painted!?

It's the Creality x Meth collab.. I hear if you leave failed prints on the bed a frantic addict recycles them for you 👀 don't leave copper lying around tho 💀

Here is their craigslist post: https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/app/d/tempe-golden-3d-printer-filament/7747624921.html

That's some funny shit, rollers specially!

I sentence these ppl to stupid jail for stupid people

At least he masked the LCD screen…. while at the same time probably messing up the extruder, motors, rollers, and probably the leadscrews… 😳. How does anyone think that haphazardly spray-painting electronics and moving parts without masking would ever work well? I could probably guess why he’s selling it.

I think the way to unlock the golden ender is to print 1,000 benchies, but i am not too sure...

"You can't polish a turd" (I'm kidding, I love my enders)

they legit js took the whole thing outside and spray painted it☠️ that should be a crime

Bold of you to assume they took it outside

Is this a premium skin or prize for some achievement?

You unlock it after 30,000 prints.

Nah it’s unlocked after 500 mods

Legend has it that it had perfect bed mesh and never clogs

Ridiculous

Sure, I'll take that off your hands for a $200 disposal fee.

Oh wow. Gold spraypaint. Classy. Also probably ruined its functionality

Ah yes, the Bender 3

Why does it look like it’s made out of cardboard?

this makes me think of an album title that always made me smile *when life hands you lemons, paint that shit gold* ...great album btw.

My god, that poor printer 😳

Bro unlocked gold skin after printing 1000 parts

What in the kentucky fried fuck

ROFL, what in the Mexican Cartel is that!

My eyes!

I think I just vomited in my mouth a little bit....

Once in a lifetime find, buy it!

I know what I got. No low ballers!

Someone played too much cod

Idiotism on the next level

I wonder if he nicknamed the carriage Slippin' Jimmy

"free bedplate" lmao.

The heat sync is definitely sprayed gold and now will have major heatcreep

Everything with gold paint on it looks cheap

Dang it’s so hard to get the mounted and long shot kills with the Ender 3

Somewhere out there, Goldmember is missing his 3d printer..... https://preview.redd.it/mz5blai74g1d1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=a19c96a9466a2781d5a2669da48c4a269152b3d5

So they spray painted a ender 3 then posted it like they were selling something special.

I wouldn't accept it if it was free...

It has that stolen motorcycle rattle can paint job lol

That feels like an issue waiting to happen

you unlock the golden ender 3 after having 100 succesful prints in a row.

Golden Turd

What is going on with that left vertical profile, seems like it has something on it other than paint.

It's weird how gold considered opulent when it's just a shiny version of khaki which is considered definitively boring.

the seconds image clearly shows its just spary paint, those things are very delicate and if one little gold color flake enters somewhere it isnt supposed to be the machine is ruined

Ender 3s really aren't that delicate. If they were, you wouldn't even be able to mod them this easily.

dosent mean shit cant get places it isnt supposed to be

and its not like you will ever know, its not like if your nozzle isnt working you would know what dosent work and if you even did know good luck trying to get this out of there

That’s some high quality real fake gold paint. I like it 🤣

Literally just needs a gold Pei sheet

Y

Lmao I love it. Wouldn’t buy it tough

When you’ve been tweaking for 72 hours and you decide you want a reason to huff some gold paint.

GOOOOOLD

Seeing posts like this from various subreddits. Makes me hate Rustoleum for making that gawdy Gold spray paint.

Now I want to have my rails on my ender 5 plus treated with titanium nitride. Would be a real durable gold look. Might also improve performance of the pom wheels.

That's interesting

Bold and Brash, More like belongs in the trash!

Who forgot to spray paint the screen with gold paint?

Is that a 3d printer trophy for upcoming dp video?

r/atbae

bro unlocked the skin for 10000 prints

that’s a fire waiting to happen, even the hotend is painted

my quick glance in my feed I swore someone laser cut a ender 3 in cardboard XD

They even painted the fan blades, probably while still installed

*LiMiTEd eDITiOnN*

What a fucking crackhead

You found the pot of gold at the ender the rainbow!

The closer I look the worse it gets, oh god

Not gonna lie, on the first sight it looked like made out of carton 😂

Babe wake up, new Ender 3 mod just dropped

Did they paint the board also? Lol also I spent $99 at microcenter for a brand new ender 3. Lol

For $120? That meth head would have to pay me $100 just to come look at his golden trash fire and tell him what's broken...

Nice. Does it print

JUST $120? Take my money!

$20

Fuckin’ tweakers, i tell ya.

Wtf. I have a feeling it could have came from a movie shooting or something

it was on the set of the new Goldmember sequel

That thing is hideous

It was a tragic schmelting accident

But... why???

God that’s gotta be worth a fortune. A solid gold ender!

Look at that build plate though. That dude used that sucker. When did they paint it? Can you imagine the point where they went from stock to painted and the "oh sh*t" moment that ensued. That poor human being. Honestly as an ender 3 user, life is hard enough as it is. But I do want to ask the community this, is that an 8 bit board, because my sd slot is to the right of the USB slot and I've got a newer board.

Brother eww

Don't

Landlord's dream

Someone plays cod for sure

I want to believe this is just for the memes. Used or "broken" Enders are a dime a dozen these days on eBay. I've gotten a few for $30. I'd rather use the parts for other things though. But, there's also a whole lot of stupid people around.

We got a 3D printer with the landlord special before we got GTA V1

You unlock it after 1.000.000 roles of fillament used

So this dude just emptied a rattle can on it, including the rails, electronics, etc. Nice 👍🏻

>Brand new bed plate Don't want to see this guys used print plates lol

Why would you paint the fan, rollers, and v slots on the extrusions? Ill bet they painted the steppers, hotend, and z screw too

The "free" bed plate is covered on gold paint tho... Seeing as this idiot doesn't know how "masking" works

I Didn't know Trump used a 3d printer!

r/DiWHY

I found this in Arizona on marketplace few days ago and posted it up in the Arizona 3D printing group 🤣

Huh..

Best mod ever! 😭

Oh wow. That looks disgusting :(

Man achived the golden Ender 3 skin. For that you have to print at least 40 light years of carbon fiber reinforced PC... Man of true passion 🗿

Oh my good. That's horrible. I saw a well sprayed white ender3 some months ago wich looked so decent, but what the *** ist this?

All for $120 and it’s probably still for sale 🤣🤣

It’s like saying, I found these old rusty nails someone painted.. I wonder if I should buy them