jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This is tempting, but what would I do with it? I can see a day when these will be just another common household item. They use one in the space station to make parts and tools, rather than have to send them up in a rocket.

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tommy2 Loc: Fort Worth, Texas

Bought one for my grandson a year ago and now everyone has some sort of gadget he has made. My son bought one quite a few years ago to use in his research lab to make parts he could not obtain otherwise. I spent several months redesigning and rebuilding it before it worked reasonable well. At that time the design had the table moving up and down to accept the plastic. As the part became more heavy the thing would start making big mistakes. The only way to get it to work was to build a very light weight movable table top. Quite a challenge but it still works.
Tried coming up with a counterbalance system but there was no reasonable way to make the balance load match the product being "printed" as it "grew".
I've got a couple misfires sitting around here from that adventure.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

A few years back, there was a pop-up business in a mall near me which was doing full body scans of people and producing small, very accurate sculptures of them with some kind of 3D printer. They were pretty pricey, and it wasn't around long.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

We have one at work. We design heatframes for conduction cooled boards for the aerospace industry, and we used to have our prototypes sent out to a machine shop for fabrication to check tolerances before a production run. Now we print one in a few hours at 1/10 the cost - very useful device.

HOHIMER

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StevenG Loc: Long Island, NY

Make a Nikon D850. Or, perhaps a nice Sony mirrorless?
Steve

Flyerace Loc: Mt Pleasant, WI

The price of a 3-D printer sure took a dive. Seems a faster drop than the price of a microwave oven. (Remember when they were $1000?)

A friend purchased a 3 d printer for work several years ago and paid $20,000 for it. Even at that price, it saved thousands of dollars and tons of time from the old way of sending their drawings to an engineering firm to create a prototype. Ain't technology great! What a time to be alive!

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Our local library bought a 3D printer for the use of its card holders. Free to use if you buy the supplies. Great idea!!

bwa