this forum is just not seeing the traffic of others.

I'm also hoping it will increase. Spread the word!!

 

We do need more people. I've been busy with my main hobby, woodworking, so haven't done much 3d printing lately.

 

Yeah. I have a 'YUGE stack of red oak church pews that I want to turn into ... SOMETHING. I have not decided their fate yet. Wall clocks are nice. Urns? Who wouldn't want their ashes interned in a wooden box made from wood that spent 40 years inside of a church? 🤔 Bird houses? I am open to suggestions!

Joe

 

This is a great forum for people who share a common interest in "All Things 3D Printed."

I am dividing my time between so many "toys" I have acquired over the past four years, that I cannot devote the time I should set aside, to my 3D printers. With the help of my two young, and highly intelligent associates, we DID print a benchie! We used my CreatBot D600 PRO and one full 1 kg. spool to print the benchie tugboat which is about 12 inches from bow to stern. It took about five days to print.

Sadly, I did not "SLOW DOWN" in the process of removing the support material and so I broke off the top half of the helm, and I also snapped off the smoke stack on the top. My "paws" were too large to handle something so delicate.

I will try again and change the settings but it was still a good experiment in allowing a printer to run for five days, unsupervised, and end up with a real product!

Right now I am focusing on the 1000 Watt fiber laser table, and the machines that are yet to be delivered to the shop ... the XTOOL 1200W MetalFab machine 😁, two of the XTOOL DTF printers, a SwiftSHAPE machine, and a TYVOK 4x8 laser machine. I had to force myself to put the brakes on setting up equipment, and focus on getting the existing machines to begin to generate an income.

Now we are beginning to get some orders for the machines that ARE set up and running. The others will have to wait until we get around to them.

Joe

 

Generally, traffic has been very slow here. I've only recently joined when I had my hair brained idea of building a Core X-Y machine out of two bed slinger gantries. I am mainly on motorcycle forums and those stay VERY busy but I keep this tab open so I can drop in every so often to see if anything has changed.

One big issue is that culture has changed from proper documentation, deep curiosity, and a desire for a real connection with real people to its FAR inferior focus on instant gratification, AI search responses, and anonymity. "Why know something when the internet already does?" is kind of how I perceive it.

It takes people to make a forum work and with only 108 members and the third highest contributor this month having 4 posts... we're not off to a roaring start. Combine that with the aforementioned comment on culture shifting and the fact that most 3D printer enthusiasts fall into the younger "AI" generation, I doubt this site will truly take off like we'd want it to.

Regardless, I'll continue to come here as the one Facebook site that I used to use (that supported my super cheap gantry) is mostly shut down now that the business is belly up. There are still some files I find useful, but I've mostly downloaded the ones I need so I don't visit that page much anymore.

 

Generally, traffic has been very slow here. I've only recently joined when I had my hair brained idea of building a Core X-Y machine out of two bed slinger gantries. I am mainly on motorcycle forums and those stay VERY busy but I keep this tab open so I can drop in every so often to see if anything has changed.

One big issue is that culture has changed from proper documentation, deep curiosity, and a desire for a real connection with real people to its FAR inferior focus on instant gratification, AI search responses, and anonymity. "Why know something when the internet already does?" is kind of how I perceive it.

It takes people to make a forum work and with only 108 members and the third highest contributor this month having 4 posts... we're not off to a roaring start. Combine that with the aforementioned comment on culture shifting and the fact that most 3D printer enthusiasts fall into the younger "AI" generation, I doubt this site will truly take off like we'd want it to.

Regardless, I'll continue to come here as the one Facebook site that I used to use (that supported my super cheap gantry) is mostly shut down now that the business is belly up. There are still some files I find useful, but I've mostly downloaded the ones I need so I don't visit that page much anymore.

Yes, we live in a TWITTER world where any communication over 140 characters in length is like asking some young person to read WAR AND PEACE. "Oh my gawd! This has like ... TWO PARAGRAPHS! Do you expect me to read ALL OF THIS?" 🤣 It is the product of our public indoctrination system, churning out a generation of mind numbed robots.

Joe