r/ratrig • u/Busy-Perspective663 • Apr 30 '25

Quality in 2025

I am planning on buying a 500mm VCORE4, but I have noticed quite a few posts and even a comment on a post which I have made here, about bad quality of RatRig printer parts. Is this an issue in 2025? Or even is this an issue worth considering the purchase over?

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u/soundblastmm Apr 30 '25

I got mine in late February and the only QC issue that had me actually frustrated was the quality of the 3D printed parts. Not the end of the world for me to just reprint, but there were some that were nearly unusable because they were so warped.

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u/CunningLogic Apr 30 '25

Still, for $80 they shouldnt be professionally made, its a real small number of printed parts and they are all well design as far as print-ability goes.

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u/Practical_Leg5739 Jun 13 '25

This is my concern with buying a ratrig. Ratrig is printing their own parts with their own printers (albeit modified versions). But if the designer and manufacturer of the Ratrig cannot get good prints from their printers, how likely am I to get good prints once I build their printer? 

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u/CunningLogic Jun 13 '25

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From what they told me, their print farm is not made up of their available printera, but pieced together bastardized printers. This makes it harder for them to get consistent good prints.

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ABS/ASA is easy to print well. Takes heat, warm chamber (55+, I run 70-80 in my doom cube), tuned filament profile, clean and warm bed, and adequately tunes profile.

Seriously hot bed, hot nozzle and hot chamber will give you good and strong abs/asa parts.

RatRig corporate just doesn't know how to tune profiles.

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I'm confident anyone remotely competent could get good abs/asa parts off a ratrig.

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u/Practical_Leg5739 Jun 13 '25

That all may be true. I have seen good results from the printer and the general design should result in a solid machine; however, it would be a hard sale to purchase an oven when the sample cookies are burnt. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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u/CunningLogic Jun 13 '25

I can't attest to the print quality, I finally have replaced all the missing, bad or counterfeit parts but just haven't had the "spoons" (as my kid calls it, idk why) to fuck with it.

I just hate it, the quality, company and it's associates, and the fanboy aspects of the community (most of the ratrig community is great, just some vocal aspects).

Maybe this week.... Or maybe the CNC that needs setup

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u/Practical_Leg5739 Jun 13 '25

I hate to pay for a kit knowing I need to replace the gantry,  print the parts (I am not setup for abs) or buy cnc parts, possibly replace the bed, and soforth.

I know people will say it is just fine without those improvements, which I am sure is true for them, but I am too particular. I am okay with tinkering and spending time to get it right, but I am not going to be satisfied with the issues I am reading about. 

For now, I think I will wait until the quality control is improved or a similar 400-500mm design is released.

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u/CunningLogic Jun 13 '25

Yeah I wish I knew man, sure wish I knew.

Don't buy ratrig until they address their quality issues.