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Why the need to print cheap plastic crap? That's why we have dollar stores and China.
by SirFatty 11y ago
Why the need to print cheap plastic crap? That's why we have dollar stores and China.
- creshal 11y agoSometimes you want cheap plastic crap your local dollar store doesn't have and you don't want to find a Chinese willing to poison himself to make you 1000 pieces.
- baseballmerpeak 11y agoMaking 1 of 1 kind of items.
- SirFatty 11y agoOh, I get that part... but how many people have that need or even the skill. No wonder the market is floundering...
- baq 11y agospare part material cost: $5 spare part cost on the market: $50
- serge2k 11y agomore like Spare part cost on printer $5 Spare part cost on market $2.50 Spare part minimum order on market 100000
- mcphage 11y agoThe limiting factor of 3d printers isn't the material cost (the plastic is fairly cheap), it's the printing time.
- CmonDev 11y agoAlso delivered not within next 5 minutes.
- agumonkey 11y agoCar manufacturer often charge a premium for the most mundane plastic parts.
- SirFatty 11y agoAnd the part you print won't last, hence the "cheap" part of my comment. Where I work, we have a $30k printer that do that kind of work, production work, and it's not cheap.
- agumonkey 11y agoDepends, I wasn't referring to parts with mechanical or thermal constraints, just weird electronic physical adapters. Sure they use well picked material for this that may or may not be superior to 3D printed plastics, but I'm really doubtful.
- dekhn 11y agoI use a $400 printer to print production parts for an industrial machine. The parts are custom shapes (I designed the machine). There's a reason Stratasys is in trouble. Same reason IBM was in trouble after PC clone makers started eating their profit margin for lunch.