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There are several new-ish approaches to injectionmoulding thse days. You can use a 3d printer capable of printing with PEEK. And actually print...

unfortunately the ubiquitious 'health and safety' is what's stopping many schools getting 3d printers. It has to be safe, it can't have any...

yep we need more information. well actullly we need SOME information :-) Those little phone stands are brilliant prints I've made a lot of them...

I have a couple thoughts on that. First try printing it 5c cooler. Then again 5c cooler. And again until it wont print well and understand the best...

If you'd like to play along at home. This is the box set I'll be printing and curing next. It's a square box and a cylindrical box. ...

well that's about as incorrect a statement as you could have typed. NO warehousing costs, NO manufacturing costs, NO distribution costs. The...

well I never made it back in here saturday so the part had about 40 hours or so of curing at 68c. So has it changed. well yes it has. This is...

oh yeah that would be an absolute doddle to make with openscad. The stepping might not be necessary, in which case you're looking at 'funnel'...

Actually the printer side of things is about 90% there. You CAN buy an off the shelf printer that does not rewuire any assembling, and you can get...

well given how easy it is in china to get a mainboard made for you - it's not unreasonable to think that tronxy have done just that and wreitten...

pretty sure that's whare my he3d k200 delta came from about 5 years ago. On that single case scenario I was happy, The printer arrived on time and...

INteresting, I remembered 3d builder and had aquick loook yesterday. Kind of non-intuitive, but looks like it might have its uses. I guess...

I will add that i did buy a £100 3d scanner. If you should ever feel tempted to do the same. Go buy 40 euro lottery tickets instead :-) That way...

some of the slicers will turn a jpg into an extruded stl file. Flashprint does a great job and I would imagine prusaslicer would do it as well. ...

well, I do sympathise. I think when we all started we thought the answer to copying an existing thing would be scanning. it isn't :-) Many print...

They will ALL have good print quality. these days that's pretty much a given. Some will produce results at a slower print speed, but generally...

There was some layer shift on Y axis right near the top. This is with 2lbs of plastic on the print bed. I have 2 steppers driving Y with one TMC2226...

Alright it is time to have some fun snd show off the hardware and it's capabilities. So first and foremost i just want everybody to see there is no...

well there is only one type of fdm machine that is suited to continuous production printing. You want/need a belt printer :-) Production...

It is important for us to put our thoughts and ideas into this hobby. It is the only way it will grow into what you have envisioned. Because Lord...

there are an increasing number of ready built plug-n-play printers around. Some actually do what they say they do. The original makerbot...

have a look at the tronxy 5sa PRO...

I got expansion boards from ebay from a link just like this one: DRV8825/A4988 42CH Stepper Motor Driver Expansion Board For 3D Prin ju | eBay ....

Spoken like a true enthusiast. On your way into this hobby you should spend some time considering and then understanding why all of these printers...

It's also great to finally hear an answer as to why these 3d printers have fallen short of mainstream, right? Why it is that they never became the...

I thought I was very clear in my quote for 'a whole lot of money', lol. But you did say $2k budget. And I can build that. I mean we will still have...

the x5sa PRO. ...

nah, this particular issue is purely down to how some slicers react to very small parts.