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Low temperature filament like PLA don\u2019t require tight temperature environment control. So the top cover is actually not a requirement for printing this material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full price for the top is listed at $249.00 <\/strong>plus tax. (Pricey) But the pre-order list price is $149.00.<\/strong> That\u2019s actually not too bad. The U1 top includes air filtration which I assume involves a fan of some type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The complete design of the top is not completely finalized. So specifications and even pre-release photos (the one shown here) are subject to change. It\u2019s big and tall and a weird shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My present intention is to cover the top for protection and to keep out dust and debris. There is actually a lot of air-borne dust in every or any home workspace. It\u2019s why clean people sweep the floor and dust the furniture! Ha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The added benefit is the cover will permit printing of high temperature material. Snapmaker marketing tries to make high temp printing the primary reason for the top cover. That\u2019s O.K.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Delivery time at this time (of writing) is 120 day or so. That\u2019s 1\/3 of a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I placed the order to take advantage of the lower price. The U1 can continue to run naked (no hat) for the next four months. <G><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been using my new Snapmaker U1 four filament \/ four extruder 3D printer for several weeks. I am impressed with the performance of four separate print heads. The U1 is a keeper. I did not order (pre-order) the top cover during the kickstarter. It was a pricey add-on and not immediately available. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-hardware","category-snapmaker-u1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum3dprint.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}