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Let's talk about 3D Printers


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2020 May 25, 11:05am   516 views  14 comments

by Tenpoundbass   ➕follow (7)   💰tip   ignore  

Any 3D printer users here?
When I converted my Steel Shed into an outdoor Mancave, I had to give up my indoor mancave because our family grew last year.

I bought XLR wall plates and ran the mic cables and speaker cables behind the drywall. Mono Price and Seismic Audio had every specialty doodad I need to hide my wires and make it slick. No running cables on the floor of my limited space. 10 by 20.

Mono Price keeps sending me emails with their daily specials and one of the hottest items they keep sending is 3D printers. They have a huge assortment and selection of them.
They have filament and resin printers. They are cheap as well, I would expect some of these machines to be over $1200, but they range from $199 to $350. They say they are high res, but that could be subjective, just like they have called every new screen monitor since 32 bit "High Resolution".

Two questions which is better, resin printing, or filament printing?

And

Would any of these cheap printers be worth buying in your opinion?

If you have already done of all of the early adopting and have gone through the different types and models and realize you need to spend the money on a certain type and brand, I would like to hear about that as well.

Does anyone have any experience with 3D printing, anyone else thinking about taking it up?

https://www.monoprice.com/category/3d-printing-&-hobbies/3d-printers-&-accessories?&menuDisStr=3d%20printers%20%26%20accessories&categoryPath3_uFilter=3D%20Printers&TotalProducts=241

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1   RWSGFY   2020 May 25, 1:28pm  

What are you planning to print?
2   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 May 25, 1:53pm  

Prototype parts, I don't need composite or metal printing for now, until I master 3D printing. I can always upgrade as my needs get more sophisticated.
3   Booger   2020 May 25, 2:20pm  

covid_shmovid says
What are you planning to print?


I'd love to print replacement parts.
I'd guess that one could make a business of printing otherwise unavailable parts.
4   Booger   2020 May 25, 2:21pm  

Tenpoundbass says
anyone else thinking about taking it up?


My local library will 3D print your stuff.
5   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 May 25, 4:58pm  

Booger says
My local library will 3D print your stuff.


Did you check out the cheap prices on the link I posted?

Even $399 seems like bargain for some of those machines, but if they are inferior machines and wont produce usable models. Then even $5 would be a waste of money.

I was hoping someone with experience can say if those are previous generation machines, and will be crude, and not very professional results. Or someone to say you get what you pay for, and give and example of something in the $3K range and can explain the difference in the value and end product, I would certainly consider every point.
6   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 May 25, 5:01pm  

I would like to get into designing and building Tube Amps, I would like to 3D print the turret boards and other non electronic component items.
7   KgK one   2020 May 25, 8:55pm  

Fking 3d printing, lost 10k in stocks when 3d printers stocks were hot , n everyone claimed that its the future.

Then it lost 90% of value.
8   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 May 26, 6:01am  

KgK one says
Fking 3d printing, lost 10k in stocks when 3d printers stocks were hot , n everyone claimed that its the future.

Then it lost 90% of value.


Yeah well I saw that coming, two things was wrong with that one.

1) Not everyone has ideas, skills or know how to operate a 3D printer, I'm just now "maybe" finding a need, and only because they are cheap enough for me to experiment to see if I have a knack for doing what I want, or would it be cheaper to just by parts I would print.

2)If everyone has a printer, and can use it as easily as it sounds, then who would ever need to buy the stuff you're making with it, they'll just print their own.

bonus point

3) I think the politicization of the 3D printed gun killed its inertia.
9   socal2   2020 May 26, 9:02am  

A good buddy of mine got a cheap one last month for under $300. I don't know the brand or the quality, but he is very happy with it. He got it mostly as a toy for him and his son during quarantine, but they did print me out a useful plastic clip that broke and was holding up the valance on my window blinds. I gave them the broken piece and his son quickly measured it and drew it up in CAD. It printed it out in about an hour. Other than that, they have just been playing around with it printing out toys and trinkets.
10   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 May 26, 9:27am  

I keep seeing all these "3D Printed Houses will cost $10k" ads and articles. But then you look at the site, and it's either one prototype that didn't cost anything like $10k to build, or it's just CGI of what they might do. Same place it was 5 years ago, along with self-driving cars.
11   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 May 26, 9:36am  

NoCoupForYou says
But then you look at the site, and it's either one prototype that didn't cost anything like $10k to build, or it's just CGI of what they might do. Same place it was 5 years ago, along with self-driving cars.


Search for my threads where I called all of this stuff "Hype Tech" as soon as it was hot.

Just like the Nano Bots, Space Elevators, Bio transistors, and nano tubes.

LOL a few years ago, they finally came up with a use for Nano Tubes, to make the color Black.
12   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 May 26, 9:38am  

Also don't forget the "GoPro" craze.

GoPro lost it's popularity with the Left, when it was the main tool used by Pro Trump supporters to document, the violent Communist Antifa assault on innocent people practicing Democracy.

Now you never hear the word GoPro uttered from any Liberal publication. The last thing they want anyone doing is filming their treasonous shit.
13   HeadSet   2020 May 26, 9:43am  

I keep seeing all these "3D Printed Houses will cost $10k" ads and articles.

If that were true, you could just borrow a friend's 3D Printer to print up your own 3D Printer, and not have to buy a 3D printer.
14   RWSGFY   2020 May 26, 9:51am  

NoCoupForYou says
I keep seeing all these "3D Printed Houses will cost $10k" ads and articles. But then you look at the site, and it's either one prototype that didn't cost anything like $10k to build, or it's just CGI of what they might do. Same place it was 5 years ago, along with self-driving cars.


They are waiting for somebody else to develop 2D printer to print cheap land for these cheap 3D-printed houses.

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