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Javid posted:Biggest benchy your print bed can fit. Post pics.  Not sure why it looks like it was taken with a potato. e:fixed-ish Using 400g of my finest $8/kg PLA. gvibes fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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sir you cant park your bigchy here youll have to leave that with the valet
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OH ! is that what we are doing ? Also submitted is my 380% flexi-rex.  The benchy printed mostly fine but the speed i was running at and neglected to make bridges -really- slow so the arches of the doorway had some stringing
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Feb 2, 2024 06:53
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hell yeah, huge silly toys
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Javid posted:hell yeah, huge silly toys 
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Feb 2, 2024 12:48
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Are we doing small things to giant things? Wanna hear something completely ridiculous. Over the past 4 months or so my brother and I have made like 15k selling these oversized wire nuts to electricians lol We have 4 different style wire nuts that we sell and man, electricians are weird people.
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Feb 2, 2024 13:30
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Lol what? I guess if you have a thing, drat well exploit the thing. I stopped doing the slugs with a stripe on top because so many people went nuts trying to keep it all aligned , but they are popular. Unfortunately my area doesn't support what I need to sell them for to make it worth cost+time to print so they are more of a one off novelty
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Feb 2, 2024 13:52
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Wait, you all are actually selling those knickknacks to people?
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Feb 2, 2024 14:33
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Warbird posted:Wait, you all are actually selling those knickknacks to people? By last count the total number of various wire nuts we have sold is around 3-400 of them lol We’d have people order 3 and 4 at a time at anywhere from $65 to $200 for our larger pieces lol We mainly advertised on a few electrician specific Facebook pages to start but got so many responses we actually put up our own website.
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Feb 2, 2024 14:45
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Quote is not edit damnit
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It's hard for me to see the appeal of spending so much money on 3D-printed tat but I just saw Felicia Day post a video acting extremely excited about buying one of those flexi axolotl things at a con so I guess I gotta just accept it
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Feb 2, 2024 14:54
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It turns out a LOT of people will purchase little fun plastic crap if the opportunity is presented to them. poo poo, I should see if a giant lego shark will fetch $20 around here
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Feb 2, 2024 15:16
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Tiny Timbs posted:It's hard for me to see the appeal of spending so much money on 3D-printed tat but I just saw Felicia Day post a video acting extremely excited about buying one of those flexi axolotl things at a con so I guess I gotta just accept it People love dumb garbage That said I think we're in the late fidget spinner stage of flexible dragons. Very much a get rich quick scheme where I see 6 people selling them at every event
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Feb 2, 2024 15:16
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Mostly, anybody who does not themself print has no idea that the 18 inch tall color change pikachu they just paid $65 for was $4 of filament and a button push for the flea market vendor hocking it. This is essentially the same margin as any manufacturing process, except more consumer accessible, so we're aware of it. I charge 5 bucks a pop for these things, which are like an inch wide  $0.07 of filament in the slicer, so I had to get over a bit of a psychological hump at the thought of charging that much. But the guys that want 10 skull tokens will pay 50 bucks a ziploc so I'm not arguing
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I don’t even know what to think of that. Good for you to be absolutely clear, but I’m not sure I can wrap my head around that.
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Feb 2, 2024 15:53
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The above mentioned wire nut sells for $65 and costs roughly $2 in filament(thanks iiidmax sales!) and about 6 hours in print time. This 3M model wire nutt is our best seller. Right up until christmas we were selling 3-5 of these a day, for $85. I got the print time down to about 4 hours and $2 in filament.  We kinda flooded the market the past couple months and sales are a bit slower now, but we still get a few hundred dollars in sales a week.
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Javid posted:It turns out a LOT of people will purchase little fun plastic crap if the opportunity is presented to them. China built an entire economy around this in the 1990s.
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cruft posted:China built an entire economy around this in the 1990s. Ender 3s are the ideal productive forces of Deng Xiaoping Theory
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mattfl posted:The above mentioned wire nut sells for $65 and costs roughly $2 in filament(thanks iiidmax sales!) and about 6 hours in print time. What you gotta do now is make a v2 with a screw on cap at the bottom so it can be used for wire nut storage. They'll sell themselves to the exact same people that bought them in the first place.
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deimos posted:What you gotta do now is make a v2 with a screw on cap at the bottom so it can be used for wire nut storage. They'll sell themselves to the exact same people that bought them in the first place. Someone already corned that market before we could do that lol
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Tiny Timbs posted:It's hard for me to see the appeal of spending so much money on 3D-printed tat but I just saw Felicia Day post a video acting extremely excited about buying one of those flexi axolotl things at a con so I guess I gotta just accept it Huh. I printed one of those as a xmas gift and it was a hit.
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I got a lot of interesting stories and pictures out of printing a bunch of veiny dicks of various sizes and colors for a friend's Bachelorette party a couple years back. Also new/different fidget toys (cubes, stars, spinners, puzzles) and optical illusion things (tensegrity tables, etc.) make fun gifts. Years ago I made a PETT glue gun station that had knobs on it for coiling up the cord and storage for the glue sticks but couldn't see it being practical to semi-mass produce; then later I see where someone started flooding easy with the exact thing after I shared the model in a printer-specific message board showing it off.
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Some Pinko Commie posted:Years ago I made a PETT glue gun station that had knobs on it for coiling up the cord and storage for the glue sticks but couldn't see it being practical to semi-mass produce; then later I see where someone started flooding easy with the exact thing after I shared the model in a printer-specific message board showing it off. This reminds me that I have dozens of good ideas (alongside hundreds of bad ones), which I put time and effort into developing, and which could probably be pretty successful. Only once in my life, though, did I manage to secure a "hype man", who is willing to put the additional time and effort into marketing things and lining up funding. That particular invention is going on 13 years of commercial success now. I feel strongly that inventing the thing is only half of the work required to make it successful. You must have had this same sense. It's lovely that the marketer didn't reach out to you in any way, though.
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Feb 2, 2024 16:55
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I made a bunch of these gift card boxes for people this Christmas to wrap last-minute gift cards, and almost everyone was more interested in the box than the gift card
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Feb 2, 2024 16:56
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Javid posted:
What are those people doing with their ziplocs full of skull tokens?
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withak posted:What are those people doing with their ziplocs full of skull tokens? Buying skull goods from the skull market obviously. Skull economy is booming now that the exchange rate has stabilized.
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w00tmonger posted:People love dumb garbage I have an event in March where the organizer has booked 3 other people 3d printing things. A look at facebook/etsy pages shows they are either 100% dragons, or flexis make up a good portion. Not gonna lie, I make good cash on stupid dragons, but I have done my homework and I pivoted to having a few tables full of completely new and different things I know they wont have. Now I hope someone buys them.
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I got asked to sponsor a ttrpg tournament here in Ontario, 70 person LOTR wargame tourney. They're looking for boats for one of the rounds. Basically wondering what kind of deal I can give them on it, and what id want in return. I'm thinking of just doing it for like cost plus 30%, and then having business cards with my website and a big discount code on it to track how much uptake there actually is in something like that. They send grab bags back with everyone so my business card would be in there, and my logo and sponsor stuff would be listed in the room too. I figure it's worth it, I'll just write off the difference as a donation or marketing and see if stuff like this is worth it overall. Maybe even run off 60 LOTR esque minis to put in those bags too
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withak posted:What are those people doing with their ziplocs full of skull tokens? they're cosmetic pieces the guy integrates into leatherwork I think. I haven't seen a finished product yet.
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Run off enough for one in each goodie bag, along with a card. Include your shop name and URL and discount code on the business card of course, and embed name/logo into the mini if you can. That's a great marketing opportunity. Cost +30% seems fair.
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mattfl posted:Someone already corned that market before we could do that lol how about a bottom cap that houses a wire nut so you can use the whole shebang as a wire nut
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Feb 2, 2024 23:44
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Comedy size wire nut for 16gauge wire connection.
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good for a lineman prank
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mattfl posted:Are we doing small things to giant things? I was intrigued when some time back you alluded to some niche product you were making that was very appealing to a certain audience, I’m glad you spilled the beans because that’s pretty bloody random and hilarious.
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Eh. It would make a good decoration for an electric supplier.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I was intrigued when some time back you alluded to some niche product you were making that was very appealing to a certain audience, I’m glad you spilled the beans because that’s pretty bloody random and hilarious. I'm somehow more confused after learning the answer
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In general which takes more effort/time, changing the nozzle on a Bambu X1C or swapping out the entire hotend assembly?
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Listerine posted:In general which takes more effort/time, changing the nozzle on a Bambu X1C or swapping out the entire hotend assembly? You need to take out the assembly to swap just the nozzle in the first place, since the nozzle and hot end are a single integral part, and reinstalling the thermistor and heater on it is fiddly work The extra $20 for the assembly saves you a lot of effort, especially if you plan on swapping often The Chairman fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Feb 4, 2024 |
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Dunno how well-known this is outside of electronic design, but you should be able to get good STEP files of most electronic parts like switches, relays, etc. Basic stuff like chips and resistors tend to have generic models, but something like a circuit breaker will often have a STEP that looks to be exported straight from the manuf’s CAD sources. Like you can disassemble the STEP file in your CAD program and see all the mechanical guts inside. It varies by manufacturer, but some are very detailed. These files are provided by manufacturers for free so designers can render their boards, etc. I have made component purchasing choices based on the quality of the 3D models provided. STEP is standard in this space. I hope some goon can make another $15k selling giant switches or something, ha ha.
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Here4DaGangBang posted:I was intrigued when some time back you alluded to some niche product you were making that was very appealing to a certain audience, I’m glad you spilled the beans because that’s pretty bloody random and hilarious. Yeah, same. That's awesome and funny as well. Glad you're making bank on your weird niche product.
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