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[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 22 points 9 months ago

I use my 3d printer sparingly. I don't like printing useless stuff, so I design parts when needed if I can't find them somewhere else.

[-] remotelove@lemmy.ca 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I use my printer when I need it. Once I learned CAD, the need to print toys and trinkets basically evaporated. (I did just print a tiny guitar for my daughter for Christmas as a placeholder for a trip to the guitar store after the holidays were over.)

The printer is now an extremely useful tool. The drawback is that I don't use as much filament and have had a few spools degrade on me. It's no biggie, but it's a time suck to dry it and get it usable again.

[-] SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Do what I do, when you have filament, extrAs, supports. Leave them in a 5 gallon bucket until 2/3 full. Then go out to the garage with your old toaster oven and make filament bricks. It takes no time at all to make....please help me I have filament bricks 9x12x1" everywhere. Please normalize this lol

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 points 9 months ago

Same but when I do use it, wow is it handy to have around. It's more than paid for itself with all the stuff I've been able to fix with it or make outright.

[-] NixDev@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I am the same way but I get hell from the wife for purchasing something that isn't being used. So now I have a table full of articulated dragons, and a wife asking why I have so many....

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Print yourself a new wife, simple.

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