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MidEngineManiac
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MAY 15, 07:01 PM
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Jake_Dragon
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MAY 15, 07:19 PM
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Before Covid we were going to take some classes at one of the locals.
For the price of a bay it would make working on a car a lot easier. Cheaper than having someone else do the work.
I have no idea if they made it through this.
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MidEngineManiac
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MAY 15, 09:25 PM
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If a dumb-ass like me can self-learn at this, anybody can. The actual printing of other peoples stuff you download is dead easy, that takes less than a week to figure out the basics and there is TONS of help on different facebook or MeWe groups. It's once you get into designing your own stuff that the REAL curve kicks in. Get very used to making mistakes, re-doing things 3 or 4 times to get it right, and wasting about 1/2 of the filament you buy (I am working on a shredder right now to start re-cycling the stuff). Chainsaw chain in a spiral around a 30mm drum.
This is my latest for a client, and Ill put them up for general sale too. Gimbled/ ball-jointed beer can holder for a push-mower. You might get sideways, but your beer wont !! 15 hours and about 3 bucks worth of filament to make it and I figure on 3 prototypes to get it torture tested and perfect. Once I do I'll publish the print file and let it generate some income forever.
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TheDigitalAlchemist
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MAY 16, 07:24 PM
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mmeyer86gt/gtp
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MAY 17, 12:11 PM
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the group looks cool i would just be worried people are posting out that they need designs then sell the design to other people. So the requester makes $$ and the person who designed it gets a slap on the back saying thanks. Kinda like people giving $$ to a person at a street corners. It makes the person giving the $$ feel good about helping the people but it perpetuates people standing on the corner asking for hand outs. I am all for designing to help people. I have provided many designs and input into mechanical devices to help disabled and given my time freely to support. I have also learned a lot being apart of these groups. Just my 2 cents.
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