Weekend Open Forum: Will you get a 3D printer?

[the_real_vlad]

I'll do what everyone else is doing.

1. Buy 3d printer.
2. Print 3d printer.
3. Return original 3d printer.

 

[captaincranky]

...[ ].....Getting back to business... China has the Rolex gig on lockdown. I'm more interested in bringing Montblanc's Villeret 1858 collection to the masses.

Good luck getting traction with the "masses" with those. Now if you stamped "Bling by Kanye West" on them, it might be a different story.

 

[davislane1]

Good luck getting traction with the "masses" with those. Now if you stamped "Bling by Kanye West" on them, it might be a different story.

When I list them as being on sale for 99.99% off REGULAR $36,000 ZOMG!!! at $12.99 a pop, I'll be able to sell baskets of them to every female consumer not from India or married to a Sheikh. You don't need luck when you can feign savings.

 

[Skidmarksdeluxe]

I don't even know what the hell a 3D printer is yet but it sounds expensive so... no.

 

[Guest]

Majority of people will say "$400 is too much" then spend $500+ on the new PS4/Xbox...if it truly is a tool for printing profitable items, then most business owners wouldn't blink at spending $5,000+ (Which would seemingly be their investment).

 

[Guest]

3D printing in metal won't ever hit home use anytime soon. Considering the temperatures required to fuse the metal shell and then the bronze which gets filled in...

 

[CowboyNoel]

I don't see it as being "outlawed". It is certainly going to change the consumerism game for any objects that can be made using these printers, but probably not for a decade or so.

Personally, I am waiting for a "recyclable" plastic to be used in the printer (make an object, use it, melt it down, make a new object).

It's out there. Ordinary plastic bottles can be ground up (pelleted) then fed into a screw type extruder that heats the mixture at the end to make a filament. It can then be used in a 3D printer that can manage PLA.