Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.
Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.
So I’m just gonna quickly add in on the resin printers.
Even a dirt cheap used anycubic model from years ago is going to be much more impressive and fantastic resolution than a standard FDM printer.
But the build plate is really small and the resin is super toxic. You will need to get something to wash the prints in and a constant supply of high proof alcohol that if you want to save money you need tools to filter as well. Then you should get UV lights for curing or you will have to wait days to harden naturally.
It’s not nearly as expensive as you would think if you buy used and fanagle parts and pieces of stuff from weird sources but it’s smelly, messy and more of a pain unless you really need super clean but small parts or minis.
I know I know I know…
Every time I feel the temptation, I think about the mess and chemicals and rubber gloves (that last one always does it for me somehow).
I don’t have the space for it, nor the ventilation. It’s just… I like to design stuff and print it. And whenever my printer can’t match my design, I get annoyed and blame it on my tools. Even though I know I should adjust my design instead.
Sorry, I’m ranting…
I have like elbow length chemical gloves and wear n95s and still will walk away feeling woozy if there is a lot of cleanup to be done.
I only have one at the request of my significant other and think that sometimes this push to move everything from factory to the consumers house doesn’t always work. Some things need a proper setup and place and the home isn’t always it.
Don’t get me wrong I love the aspect of it literally making something from a digital mockup but would in a better world just want a space down the street to go to and have it done there. But makerspaces never really took off.