A friend of mine Is a good way into repaying his bambu x1c by taking commissions from friends and Facebook marketplace
Comment on 3D Print Farm Talk - Should You Upgrade? - Some Experience with Old vs New Machines
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 months agoThere are also request sites where people will put up a print model and filament requirements and you can agree to provide them by X date.
Sometimes people need one offs and dont want to buy a printer, so they pay $50 for $5 worth of plastic/electricity. Sometimes other folk need 100 of something and pay $10/each for something like a green rectangle. With solar panels or cheap electricity, as long as you are making a profit after buying plastic and have the process tuned in, you basically have machines making $0.25-$1/hr just running 24hr/day.
Damage@feddit.it 11 months ago
Pohl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fascinating. A whole hidden world.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think it’s likely a very hard niche to break into and keep orders coming.
It also seems like a lot of people find a device or appliance where there are no replacement parts or very expensive ones and they sell printed ones at a nice markup.
It might be that those green squares fix a $300 thing for $20 when the manufacturer wants $80. Print um, toss them up on etsy/amazon and call it a day.