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An Opinion article by Michelle Cottle reading “Is the Cure to Male Loneliness Buying A Huge 3D Printer?”
Below is a photo of a man using an Extreme 3000 Pro 3D printer with a drawing of a crying man standing to the side and watching him.
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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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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.
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.
JLCPCB has a 3d printing service
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.
Local libraries often have 3D printers now a days
Mine don’t. :P I’ve asked around.
Of you have a model file there’s services online, someone else jlpcb and I’m pretty sure shape ways is still a thing. You usually can fine printing services on eBay too.
I’ve bought some STLs from Gambody.com and they offer a print service along with them.
My library does prints for almost free
Search 3D print service bureau or prototype shop. There’s a ton that’ll ship. Which country?
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.
I know of https://world.prusa3d.com Anyone can join and offer to print, support, recycle, just show off.
Check your local library.
If some one wants to buy me one, I’ll be happy to report back,
Just outing myself here as female should someone wish to do a comparison study across genders.
Gotta do the study properly. Diverse pool, control groups. Relatively long periods…
I’m not lonely. I could be part of the control group.
it’s a hard job, but it’s for science, and you have to do science right.
so we really need every one in on this.
I assume that’s a typo, and it should be a Huge DD Printer.
My AI girlfriend says she is in there waiting to get out
In case anyone is curious, the printer in the picture is 1100x1100x820 mm and costs $50k USD.
https://builder3dprinters.com/us/product/builder-extreme-3000-pro/
I built a 36" x 18" x 18" by welding a Prusa style aluminum frame up from scrap aluminum plate, and running the bed on 8mm rods and bearings. Dual Volcano 1.2mm hotend, it prints nearly as fast as that. It has about a dozen 110V heater pods mounted to the aluminum/glass bed. I’ve printed some big things on that since I built it about 8 years ago.
I might be $500 into it.
curious machine. I’m surprised to see such mediocre specs with that price tag.
claims to be industrial yet uses 1.75mm hot end and can’t print any industrial grade materials
I’m surprised they didn’t make it a bed slinger to save on costs. That’d be hilarious to watch print something.
I mean, my first large printer, I just took an old prusa i3 (not the mark 3, this was from years ago) and built a new frame around the hardware. had about the same performance.
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don’t get me wrong, getting a printer this big to run at those speeds must be quite a feat of precise engineering and craftsmanship. but in my opinion this machine is no more than a novelty; a machine no more capable than an off-the-shelf ender 3.
can you imagine producing a prototype from this machine? I have half a notion to build a profile for it in my slicer just to see how long I’d be waiting for a part 1m in any dimension.
is it cool? without a doubt. but FDM at this scale using 0.4mm to 1.0mm nozzles and 1.75mm filament is pointless. I think they missed the beat here by not engineering a hot end with greater extrusion capabilities. if it were fitted with, say, a 2mm nozzle it would be much more capable of producing large parts in a reasonable time frame.
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There’s a reason you don’t often see machines over 300x300x400. At that point it gets hard to keep tolerances tight, requiring manufacturing changes or else you end up with printing artifacts.
This thing prints at 300mm/s at 1100x1100x820 and it’s manufactured in a first world nation at low volumes.
It’s hard to see, but I think they made the gantry (the whole Z platform, I mean) out of two plates of aluminum. They didn’t bolt i beams together, it’s just two massive plates with holes cut into them. That’s the sort of engineering they did to get this thing to work at that size, with that speed.
Doing that is expensive.
3d printers are the new classic car that needs a little bit of work.
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.
Ugh, I have both and now I question what that means about me.
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.
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!
Somebody call Anthony Michael Hall, it’s time to Weird Science our way to mental health!
Getting back into 3D printing is doing wonders for my depression.
I’m designing a tabletop war game.
Ask Pygmalion.
I’m pretty sure the cure for male loneliness is HRT
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It makes me sad too that the people who embrace diversity force the duopoly of strict man and woman to the point of people feeling they need hormones or to change their sex bc they are being made to feel inadequate for who they are.
169% effective
Why?
Because then it’s female loneliness…
Ron Desantis hates this one weird trick!
I assumed you meant TRT.
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.
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.
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!
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No!.. but please continue! 🤔
