I guess it depends on a “ship of Theseus” type of a thing. Sure, I’m technically using a 2018 first gen Ender 3, but it also has linear rails, a Phaetus Dragonfly with a Bondtech CHT nozzle and BMG extruder, a BLtouch and it’s running Klipper with input shaping, and as a result it can spit out an almost flawless not-a-speedbenchy (because I have a 0.6mm nozzle running 0.3mm layers so it doesn’t qualify) in 22 minutes. Only thing missing is that I still haven’t upgraded the main board or stepper drivers as I’m not bothered by the noise.

So it’s both 5 years old, and also better and more moderd than quite a few of the models provided by Creality today.

I am officially retiring my Wanhao i3 Duplicator v2 on Friday when my BambuLabs p1p arrives.

Well… sort of. I am stripping the i3 of parts and I am going to use them to start building a Voron 0.2. Most of the parts are junk, but I should be able to re-use the motors, the SKR Mini e3, and a few other items/upgrades from the i3.

I still daily drive my Ender 3 from back around launch, but at this point calling it an Ender 3 feels a bit dishonest. It’s got a new hotend, extruder, bed, board, and wiring. Basically I’ve got a stock frame, psu, and screen and everything else is newer.

And my CR-10 V3 is also pretty modified as well, but that one’s a fairly newer printer.

We have four Ender 3s in my makerspace, but replaced them with Prusa i3 mk3+s a few months ago. It’s such a difference in quality and time management since I don’t have to troubleshoot nearly as much. Usually with the Prusas, issues are with the models or the filament instead of yhe printer itself. I’m not sure I can go back now that I’m spoiled.

CR-10 is considered old now? 😢