I was initially excited to hear the XL was finally getting some attention, but the price of this upgrade has me quite disappointed. It would cost me at minimum $500 to upgrade my 5 tool head XL, and that's not including the new high flow nozzles.

I was an early XL adopter and pre-ordered based on my great experience with their MK3S printers. I love my XL when it works as intended, but it's been a long and rocky road to get it to a point of being pretty reliable. I've sunk countless hours of my time and loads of filament tinkering with and without Prusa support to troubleshoot issue after issue and even then still having to wait months or years for software updates to solve problems that it never should have shipped with.

So now to find out that there's finally a real solution to make it the printer that was promised years ago, but it costs as much as many printers is yet another letdown in my XL journey.

That's a shame. I've had my Litter Robot 2 for over a decade and loved it. Considering a replacement soon when it finally reaches end of life. Sounds like I need to look into other options. Anyone know a good alternative?

He did another one prior to this that was also fantastic. Super talented and fascinating guy.

https://youtu.be/QdJ5X4MhLmg

We've had one from Ana Bath for about 12 years. No issues other than a rubber gasket needed replacing around year 10, which they sent to me at no charge. It was less than $100 on Amazon IIRC.

Nice! Thanks for the info. Looks like Costco has a bundle on sale right now too so I may give it a shot even if I end up with a more expensive shaver as well.

I like the approach Braun took with the series 5. Mine has a battery (that's held up shockingly well over a decade and a half), but you could always plug it in and continue shaving if the battery died. I'll be very disappointed if that's not still the case on newer models.

Oneblade looks interesting. I'll have to check that out. Do you dry shave with it?

They weren't cheap, but they were quality. At the cadence I shave I could usually get two years out of one before I noticed it getting dull. For comparison, the last off-brand one I tried was maybe 60% of the price, but lasted around 3 months before breaking mid-shave and coming close to tearing up my skin. So well worth it to me to buy the real deal. I'll gladly buy off-brand whenever possible, but something sharp running over my neck is where I draw the line lol.

I recommend getting prescription lenses for the quest. There's some overpriced commercial ones you can buy or if you have a 3D printer or access to one you can print your own frame inserts and buy cheap lenses to go in them. I recommend the latter option because it's cheaper and if your prescription changes you can just buy new lenses.

I use Giftster for this. It's free and you can add items from anywhere even without a link. Also let's you just take a photo of something and slap it on there.

Awesome! Thanks so much! Happy Holidays!

I'll have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!