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Thread: A little something I made the other day.

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    Very nice!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drm50 View Post
    Yea, good idea and nice job but profit would only be made running them in injection mold. Those molds would make many boxes at a time. If it was profitable there would be a lot more stuff made on 3d printers.
    The main strength of a 3d printer is for prototyping and onesy twosies
    For volume, molding is the only way to go

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    Quote Originally Posted by lksmith View Post
    The main strength of a 3d printer is for prototyping and onesy twosies
    For volume, molding is the only way to go
    True, unless you have a ton of printers or you are doing very small parts. A friend of mine who got me into printing has been making disposable razor blade handles for a local factory. He can print 50 at a time and it takes about 4 hours, they've been having him make about 200 a month and have been paying him $4 a piece for them. It costs him maybe $1 in material to make 50 of them.

    Another guy who I've seen on facebook has about 50 printers in his garage, he is making cookie cutters and selling them like crazy. I mainly got my printer to do little knick knacks and I've made a few useful things. I bought mine back in 2018 for $250 and have had no problems with it.
    Last edited by Kyle M.; 05-07-2021 at 12:08 AM.

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    That look very nice. Good job!

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    Pretty impressed and a bit jealous that you just grabbed a free cad program and did that. Just can't get the motor started to actually sit down and learn freecad. Need to find a good tutorial to learn it. Nice job.

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    Great idea and nicely done.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MrWolf View Post
    Pretty impressed and a bit jealous that you just grabbed a free cad program and did that. Just can't get the motor started to actually sit down and learn freecad. Need to find a good tutorial to learn it. Nice job.
    I used Tinkercad and about an hours worth of YouTube tutorials. I hear Fusion360 is really good, you can get it free for a year but after that it’s a monthly subscription.

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