Do you own a 3D printer?

Do you own a 3D printer?

  • Yes

    Votes: 78 27.8%

  • No, but I want one

    Votes: 105 37.4%

  • No, no need for one

    Votes: 97 34.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    281
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Do you own a 3D printer?

If so, do you use it regularly?
If not, why not? Is it the cost or simply no need for one?
 
Would like one but besides the initial cost isn't the materials used very expensive?
 
bwana said:
Do you own a 3D printer?

If so, do you use it regularly?
If not, why not? Is it the cost or simply no need for one?
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Fiddly and eskom makes time consuming prints impossible.
Some prints can take days to complete and an extended power outage means the bed cools and the print no longer sticks.

But edit, yes, have some printers and no, eskom makes anything but calibration cubes, keyrings and other small things impractical to print.
 
AstroTurf said:
Fiddly and eskom makes time consuming prints impossible.
Some prints can take days to complete and an extended power outage means the bed cools and the print no longer sticks.

But edit, yes, have some printers and no, eskom makes anything but calibration cubes, keyrings and other small things impractical to print.
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Yea, Eskom is a real issue. I don't think I've printed anything that took more than an hour this whole year.
 
Yup, once I am done with printing some Chistmas stuff, I want to start on building this:

Materials are not too expensive. R300-R400 for 1kg of filament. But you generally use very little of it as you can print things to be hollow inside (depending on the application of course).

The best thing I have printed so far have been a bunch of bobbins for my wife's pfaff sewing machine. Normal bobbins are almost impossible to find for it, and when you do find them, they are k@k expensive, like R180 for 4. I printed like 30 of them, which used like 36g of filament, which taking into costs of filament and electricity is like R22.
 
Yup, as a few have said Eskom is making it difficult to print at the moment but usually its running around 5 days a week.
 
Was never really interested in it. Got one for my son last week and helping him I was amazed to see on sites like thingyverse and printables the thousands of fun and interesting things you can just download and print. And all the useful things. You can almost put anything in the search engine and will find something. Search for example Hilux and you will get model cars, you will get Hilux keyrings, and even small parts like replacement cupholders, buttons or switches.
And that's not even talking about the really great plans/designs you can pay for on other sites or anything you can design yourself.

I do however think that for many people this can be like a RC car or something that you get, play for a month or two and then it just gather dust
 
Jean Claude Vaaldamme said:
Was never really interested in it. Got one for my son last week and helping him I was amazed to see on sites like thingyverse and printables the thousands of fun and interesting things you can just download and print. And all the useful things. You can almost put anything in the search engine and will find something. Search for example Hilux and you will get model cars, you will get Hilux keyrings, and even small parts like replacement cupholders, buttons or switches.
And that's not even talking about the really great plans/designs you can pay for on other sites or anything you can design yourself.

I do however think that for many people this can be like a RC car or something that you get, play for a month or two and then it just gather dust
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Like any hobby I suppose. For me its a tool. I may not use it every day, but I do use it.
 
Ordering the Bambu Labs X1 soon

Thereafter looking at the Prusa XL (when ever that gets released)....
 
Don't have one but would like one, not sure if it's something most people need unless you're making money off it.
 
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