About half way through this last year, my work took me overseas for extended and unpredictable periods. This brought all work in my personal Mad Scientist Lab to a halt, including my TOM, which I had upgraded through Mark 6+, and had printed literally dozens of reels of ABS through on various projects. It's been cold and still for months and months now. When I checked back on MakerBot a few weeks ago, I saw how things had progressed through the Replicator 2.
Looking for real information from real users (as opposed to the press release type stuff from back at the end of September), I'm not finding anything. So here are some questions (and apologies in advance for duplication):
** Are there any Rep2s actually out there in users' hands?
** If so, how has the general experience been?
** What is the basic user community thinking about what seems like a major, huge departure from the CupCake->TOM line of development?
** In terms of print quality and print time, is there any real, independent assessment of how the Rep2 stacks up against the TOM and other currently available machines?
I sincerely appreciate any info and comments from the folks here on the board who have been so informative and helpful in the past!