nixCraft 🐧Mar 16
💯 vcs and tech bros act like they cured cancer with Gen AI. Lmao. In reality, they just stole every thing out there while causing large amount of environmental damage to build a slop machine and slop OS.
Show threadYet another Josh 

@nixCraft To be fair, I've repaired a few thousand dollars of stuff that would have been thrown out by using 3d printing.

The big problem so far is there's not really a repository of "3d printable commercial replacement parts" repositories. And the skill to design those parts still requires a lot of CAD skill.

I happen to know a bunch in CAD.

Mar 17 at 12:41amWeb
Show threadSiim OšurMar 17
@crankylinuxuser @nixCraft Isn’t the biggest problem the material. Someone already mentioned it indirectly that the impracticality comes from the plastic itself. You aint 3D printing piston rings, ever. Drone parts sure but heavy duty, nope. Or am I wrong here?
Show threadVinicius (PY2VMH)Mar 17
@nixCraft @crankylinuxuser @siim Different manufacturing methods are useful in different parts. Plastic 3D printing is useful for some plastics (some, not all), and even then, it can still not be ideal for many parts because the parts end up very anisotropic (different strengths in different directions). Also, the plastics used in common 3D printers are very weak and the nozzles are very wide (so you can't have precision parts without postprocessing).
Show threadYet another Josh Mar 17

@siim @nixCraft

A LOT of consumer goods are all just plastic as well. Its a mixture of ABS, ASA, or nylon. You can print all of those, but nylon is a pain in the ass.

Volume knok breaks off the stereo? 1 hour model and 1 hour print.

Some internal plastic molded gear strips? Was probably a sacrificial gear. You can model and print, again in 2 hours tops.

Need a weatherproof housing? Download a box creator. Takes 3-6/hours. You'll need to buy some gasketing for the seam.

Its these small repairs and replacements that Ive done. Lots of them. And they cost anywhere from $.05-1$ of material. And even if they dont have the same durability as the originals, it keeps the devices working and out of the landfill.