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myohmy11
Hi Rick i'm thinking about building a mini rostock. Why did you say this is not the best choice for most people? the complexity?
Actually I never said anything about the rostock mini at all :)
I've not looked into the rostock mini much myself. To be honest with any reprap there will be a certain amount of figuring stuff out for yourself. The rest is down to how well the documentation is written. There are few repraps with truly decent documentation IMO. Having had a brief look over the rostock mini page it does appear to have relatively decent docs though. I'm not really someone who's in a position to say "dont build this one, build that one". That's got to be your choice :)
Personally I only tend to really look at printers that have the same goals as the reprap. As far as I'm concerned if the docs are good enough, the parts are readily available and the printer works - that's a good option. If it requires a bunch of expensive hard to source materials (i.e openbeam, makerbeam, etc) then it's less interesting and not really helping the reprap project as much as it could.