This is my review of the Tevo Tarantula 3D printer. I got it for close to $180 from Gearbest.com.
The instructions were very bad making it harder to assemble the printer. The overall construction isn't very sturdy which makes me afraid of moving it around too much.
The stock performance is very poor because of lacking cooling. When you print a fan mount and use it to mount two turbofans on the printer, then the printing quality is dramatically increased.
It is able to print very nicely in PLA, but not in ABS. The layer adhesion is not very good with ABS resulting in bad prints. The nozzle on my unit won't get any hotter than 230 C which isn't enough to give good layer adhesion with ABS.
This printer is good if you want to print fun small objects in PLA only. If you want to be able to print tougher objects then look elsewhere.
