Laughing Grass
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They weren't actually usable.
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They weren't actually usable.
Wrong material?
Grandpapy
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I have starter buttons here. We can find a way!
Laughing Grass
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3d prints with an FDM printer are porous, bacteria would get in, bad things would happen. You would need a SLA printer with food safe resin. Sex shop is probably easier.
BudmanTX
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looks like someone has done some research....hmm
Makes sense! I've never tried 3d printing, so I didn't know what kind of materials you can put in them, or if they're interchangeable.
Laughing Grass
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I'm willing to send you one if you'd like to do a test insertion and report back.
If you hold a print in your hand you can see the layers and ridges.
Singlemalt
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Size queens
BudmanTX
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see i knew you have some kink in ya......u turned one into a tickler......
Laughing Grass
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What other things do you make? Or is it too expensive to derp around with too often?
Laughing Grass
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It's surprisingly cheap and exactly the same tech as a cnc router, just using an iron head and feeder motor. I bought it to make decorations for a shower.
I made clips for my scrog net. The first version was not very good and I had problems with the clips popping off as the plants grew, but I learned from that.
V2 redesign was significantly stronger and worked really well.
Singlemalt
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As I've said an unrealized engineer
Laughing Grass
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I seriously considered manufacturing and selling a scalable clip in scrog system for gorilla tents, but it would take me a week to make a single 4 x 4 system. 3d printers are too slow and the cost of an injection mold is outrageous.
That sounds cool. Do you think you might expand upwards to a larger/faster printer? How large of a thing can you make in one piece? I know a lot of models are pieced together after printing...
BudmanTX
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what would be your cost projection???
Singlemalt
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Actually I'm talking school, post grad degree in Engineering; and get techs todo the grunt work. You are a natural
Laughing Grass
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Probably not, I haven't turned it on in a long time. FDM (filament based) has gone as far as it can go with speed, maybe a few mm per second faster but that's about it. Metal additive manufacturing is the future, but the entrance fee is so high that it's out of reach for the general hobbyist. Resin is cool and I've played with it a bit, but it's carcinogenic and using PPE kinda turned me off.
I would love to honestly. I wouldn't qualify for engineering post grad with a business degree... at least not here where the enrollment is so high.
Laughing Grass
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for that 3x3 v2 took four days to print so about $1.60 in power and just over $17 in filament plus my time.