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gondar1 said:
Approved!

I can only imagine how much time I would spend making niche things if I had one of those printers.
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Outside of the gym, it's easily my biggest hobby. I've got 4 printers, one of which is a voron 2.4 that I built myself from a kit + parts. It's gotten to the point now where many of my prints are upgrades for my printers, so they print higher quality, so i can print better parts, for my printers. It's a sickness 😂
 
@vancitybb
Uh-oh. This may become a problem.
So many questions...
Would you indulge with a ramble on the subject? Or suggest a forum or other place to do some learing on the subject? (I am on a mission to make the mispelling of that word colloquial)
For example-
Do u think 3d printing is a viable way to make some cash? Is it a black hole for time? Is the tech mindedness bar pretty high? Cost of setup and materials vs finished product?
 
Ah, a fellow 3d printer.

My wife bought me a Bambu p1s the Christmas before.

I have printed a ton of stuff for work, like custom price tags that clip on to odd shaped things.
Storage containers for the display freezer I printed in translucent blue so it looks like ice.

I’m not overly good with the cad program, will I’m using tinkercad, but it works for the squares and circles I make, lol.

I bought a smooth plate, only downside is you have to use a glue stick, unlike the textured plate.

I bought some tpu filament and printed gaskets for some of the older equipment at work you cannot get parts for.

I want to get a scanner, so I can scan broken parts and print new ones, but I will need a lot more practice on a cad program first.

I bet I ran that machine almost full out for a year. Never cleaned it or dud maintenance. Things a tank.
 
gondar1 said:
@vancitybb
Uh-oh. This may become a problem.
So many questions...
Would you indulge with a ramble on the subject? Or suggest a forum or other place to do some learing on the subject? (I am on a mission to make the mispelling of that word colloquial)
For example-
Do u think 3d printing is a viable way to make some cash? Is it a black hole for time? Is the tech mindedness bar pretty high? Cost of setup and materials vs finished product?
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Oh I'm always up for a good 3d printing ramble lol. Let's see... youtube and reddit are probably the resources I use most, though AI/ChatGPT has become a great resource now as well: tell it whatever problem you're having and it'll usually give you the right fix.

As for making money, in a lot of ways the market is saturated. Setting up yet another booth at the local farmers market and selling overpriced dragons isn't going to be lucrative. The key is to find something niche. For example, there was one guy printing these covers that prevented a common rust issue on certain model years of the Rav4. He was making bank since he was the only one offering a solution to that problem.

These days you can get machines that are quite user friendly. They're self-calibrating, can do their own diagnostics etc. It'll always benefit you to dig a bit deeper into things, but i think the barrier to entry is a lot lower than it used to be. Bambu labs and creality both have decent entry-level printers.
 
Sorbate said:
Ah, a fellow 3d printer.

My wife bought me a Bambu p1s the Christmas before.

I have printed a ton of stuff for work, like custom price tags that clip on to odd shaped things.
Storage containers for the display freezer I printed in translucent blue so it looks like ice.

I’m not overly good with the cad program, will I’m using tinkercad, but it works for the squares and circles I make, lol.

I bought a smooth plate, only downside is you have to use a glue stick, unlike the textured plate.

I bought some tpu filament and printed gaskets for some of the older equipment at work you cannot get parts for.

I want to get a scanner, so I can scan broken parts and print new ones, but I will need a lot more practice on a cad program first.

I bet I ran that machine almost full out for a year. Never cleaned it or dud maintenance. Things a tank.
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I still bust out the glue stick when I'm in a hurry, but I usually treat my plates with "nano polymer adhesive", that stuff works amazingly well.

I've got the creality otter 3d scanner, I used it at first, but it was a bit of an impulse buy. I should fire it back up, at least use it to make action figures of my nephews lol
 
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