Fuck it 🤷🏻♀️ my uncle dropped 8k on a 3D printer post-divorce, and if working on a lil art and engineering makes him feel better I can support that.
3d printers are the new classic car that needs a little bit of work.
Ugh, I have both and now I question what that means about me.
slaps roof This baby has been going since the early '20s. We've been through a lot together, almost every part has been replaced, and it's still not reliable!
If you have one of the consumer metal printers and a consumer plastic printer, it means you can print your own car parts from aluminum, iron, or lower carbon steel pellets, and all the trim with the plastic printer.
Congratulations, you have a body shop, and an example car.
Getting ahold of the original specifications becomes the biggest challenge at that point, so that you can manufacture the parts within tolerance.
How does it get to the right temperatures??
What? The printer? They use metal pellets and AFAIK, you program the printer to heat an induction coil to melt the pellets.
Yes. Very cool. Thanks for the explanation.
I have a 3D printer, and a Suzuki Samurai. More than a few parts for the 35 year old Suzuki have been printed by me.
Why not both!? I've used one to make parts for the other.
How do you use a car to make parts for a printer?
I'll tell you what, using that points distributor on my Lulzbot has sped up printing considerably! Unfortunately the print nozzle connected to the 401 nailhead sure makes the Buick hard to start.
I have been making parts for my FIL’s 61 Ranchero. I have made almost every gasket, the heating couplers, and dash knobs.
I've made a few logos. One of them I used to make a stamping die that deformed some sheet metal. Worked shockingly well.
I've also made a simple phone mount and a lens for the glovebox. My ultimate plan is to make the housing for new headlights, but lack of time and wanting to scan rather than measure the sheetmetal opening has slowed me down on that project.
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Just last meal time we enjoyed stuffing foodstuffs into our primary face holes to acquire energy. Afterwards we used said face holes to communicate inanities to each other. We then ingested ethanol to impair our brain function and attempted to create more humans by mashing our ridiculous meat bodies together.
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I'm pretty sure the cure for male loneliness is HRT
169% effective
Why?
Because then it's female loneliness....
Ron Desantis hates this one weird trick!
I assumed you meant TRT.
I just got a huge CNC, will that work?
Depends on the number of axis.
anything below 7 doesn't count
We got a baller over here!
:swooon:
Depends on the soft jaw chuck
Is…to print sex dolls? Is that the goal? Building the girlfriend?
No, there is no goal only you'll be so busy calibrating and optimizing and upgrading the printer you won't have time to be lonely.
There is only printer.
fucking microplastics
And macroplastics
sounds good!
Nah, you dont need to print the whole woman.
Somebody call Anthony Michael Hall, it's time to Weird Science our way to mental health!
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Uh, question. What if you don't have a 3D printer, but need something 3D printed? I've asked around, and there are no 3D printers available in this area. Is there an online fabrication service you can use? I want to get a higher profile D-pad for my Switch Lite, to replace the crappy one Nintendo put in there by default. Unfortunately, there's limited size tolerance, and it seems that specific equipment is required.
Local libraries often have 3D printers now a days
Check your local library.
My library does prints for almost free
Reddit had a community called something like 3dprintmything where you could post what you were looking for and get bids from folks who could get it to you. I dunno if we have anything like that here.
I had this exact question last week. Found a UK based hub service with providers in many countries. Search for Treatstock and see if you find it useful.
Ps. I'm not affiliated, not an ad bot, etc.
Stratasys, Protolabs, Shapeways, Hubs, etc. Tons of options out there. Search 3D printing and your closest city and I'm sure there will be something.
We already have the technology for AI waifus. I bet we'll be able to print AI body pillows before the end of next year.
Ask Pygmalion.
No!... but please continue! 🤔
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