Comment on Is Anyone Printing ICE Whistles?
akilou@sh.itjust.works 22 hours agoPrinted whistles are like 4 cents each. I haven’t checked but I’d be surprised if you could buy them for cheaper than that. Also, I have so many points on Makerworld that filament is free
pageflight@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Huh, really? $100 for a bucket of 50 with lanyards does come out more expensive, then, assuming people have some spare yarn/cord/old lanyards around. I assumed there was no way bulk production wasn’t more expensive, but maybe the supply chain / middle men catch up.
B0rax@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Those are expensive… just a quick search on aliexpress and I found 50 whistles for 5€ including lanyards.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Not only is that still more expensive than printing, you have to wait a week to ship instead of waking up to a print bed full of them
B0rax@feddit.org 6 hours ago
You are right. You can beat the prices on alibaba though. Then you could even get metal ones for 11 cents a piece.