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    Unless you are selling the 'toys' for ridiculous sums of money, you won't make any money.

    3d printers are remarkable machines (as he hears his dog crunching some plastic reject pots behind him - pla isn't poisonous) and for inventing and designing and making your own models and plastic parts - just the best thing ever !

    But decent volume production can't be done unless you're looking at multiple machines.

    Even a small short print can take half an hour. Currently printing a foot for a weather station display that came without a stand. 6 gms going to take 25 minutes. And that's 0.3 layer and 70mm/s print speed.

    Now I do recall a real frankenstein machine that claimed: 3d printer, injection moulder and either a laser cutter or cnc cutter all in one desktop sized beast.

    Think it's still on a crowdfunding site. But that's the beast you want.

    Here you go :-) http://3dprint.com/15381/tribot-3d-printer-cnc-mold/

    Don't know where those print samples came from - but I've never printed anything that awful and there's no way in hell you should be getting output like that from an ultimaker.
    Last edited by curious aardvark; 01-30-2015 at 07:29 AM.

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