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I like having a 3D printer - I'm making a plywood box to house it; keep the cat from attacking it or covering it in fur, and fitting that with LED lights and a small extractor fan* so I need some cable clips that can glue to plywood (too thin to nail or brad) so I go searching Fleabay and Amazon.
And then realize: it's a 3D printer - print some!
So 5 minutes in Fusion 360, 11 minutes printing a sample, and it's now off making me 16 of 'em: 25mmx10, with slots to hold 3 x 1.3mm cables and 3 x 2.0mm cables. OK, it's going to take over two more hours to print them, but that's still quicker (and probably cheaper) than buying them online ...
This thing is just sooo handy!
And I've ordered a very cheap - under £2 including slow delivery - Chinese temperature gun, which I plan on dismantling and mounting it's components so I can monitor the bed temperature easily without the machine on and know when it's OK to remove the components.
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The more you use it the handier it gets.
I've printed all kinds of stuff for around the house and the SO finds all kinds of things for me to print also.
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I've noticed!
The major print job so far was for the box: a mounting plate for DC power, switch, fan, and a 1 1/2 BSP thread for the extraction pipe.
It was quite fun to design, and definitely fun to populate and find everything fitted and worked*.
* Except the DC connector itself, which didn't fit it's mating connector properly - of course I only find out once wires are soldered to it and it's installed in the plate ... Happily I ordered three and the other two are fine.
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You haven't lived until you get 36 hours into a 3 day print and power goes out. Crap....actually language redacted!
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In theory, the Anycubic says it recovers and continues from where it stopped.
Do I believe that? Enough to test it? Um ... no. 
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That happened when I had my Creality CR-10, it didn't have recovery.
But my Prusia does and it has saved my butt a couple of times but there are occasions where it doesn't work such as spikes. If power cuts cleanly then it works great!
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I just DuckDuckGo'd AnyCubic and went to the site.
Watched the video for the set up on the i3 Mega --- only $209 right now -- and now I want one!!!
I can't believe that for these prices you don't have to build the thing from scratch.
Which one do you have?
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Bookmarked for future reference --- when I get my i3 Mega S 
Thanks!
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Quote: the SO finds all kinds of things
Stack Overflow? 
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RickZeeland wrote: Stack Overflow?
I don't call her that to her face, she's sensitive that way!
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Sweet Flo then ? 
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i can't tell if you actually know. jic: significant other.
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What? You expect a teensy tiny yellow polka dot bikini?
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and it is only going to get better and cheaper, like TVs and Computers. A lot of companies that manufacture after market parts for repairs will not be happy, but such is life.
I am looking forward to getting my first printer after Christmas; kids come first....evidently .
I am "finally" getting into Arduino and will use it to manufacture/print circuit board cases and chassis, servo mounts, etc.
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I don't have one and I don't know what I'd use one for except maybe to make adapters for some old lenses to more easily use them on my DSLR.
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This is a bit like how all woodworking magazines have endless articles about things you can do in your home woodshop to improve it, keep it tidy, etc.
They have so many of those types of articles a casual reader might think if you didn't have that hobby in the first place, you wouldn't need to spend so much time doing that sort of thing...you'd swear that's all people do in their woodshops...very meta. 
So here's a challenge: Design and 3D-print your own 3D printer...
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Nope. That needs metal, not plastics: you are talking about very fine control of movement, and any lack of rigidity shows up as nasty defects in the print quality. You could get away with some bits, but you do need precision metalwork for the X, Y, and Z drivers.
As an aside, have a look here: Fixed Gantry CNC Router Build Part 1 - YouTube[^] - it's a "metalworking 3D printer" being built from scratch (by a very talented individual). It should help to explain some of the problems with printing a printer!
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Right. But can you buy any of those components as spare parts, and 3D-print the rest...? I genuinely wonder how cost-effective that would be...
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How I 3D Printed A 3D Printer from Scratch | All3DP[^]
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Sounds like the basis of an article to me, for us: "sitting on the fence what do I need a 3D printer for"
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Machines are now officially a life form - they can self replicate.
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Is Paris Fashion Week just French Dressing?
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Of corset is.
French dressing is best when minimised.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: French dressing is best when minimised.
used to be more conservative, only place you saw ze bra was at the zoo.
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