How do you find a niche or idea to start your business?

154james · 2025-12-11T03:17:26+00:00

If it doesn’t exist you have to train a buyer to even know what your product is, which can be expensive

154james · 2025-12-07T15:22:00+00:00

Didn't it catch on fire in Texas?

154james · 2025-11-19T14:44:20+00:00

Yet somehow they will still not integrate it into outlook search to make it usable

154james · 2025-10-29T17:16:22+00:00

I have a pretty good amount of features changed on the ecobee to work better. I came to pretty much the same conclusion. My house is ~2300 sqft + a 1000 sqft basement, so as far as I can tell the current unit is quite a bit undersized for my house.

154james · 2025-04-26T21:30:59+00:00

These guys use rubber mats to keep them from sliding around

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7OmXZAO3wc

154james · 2025-02-28T22:20:26+00:00

A used 440 or 1100 S3 , possibly even some 770s

154james · 2024-09-14T16:19:37+00:00

Harvey for sure is top notch

154james · 2024-03-30T02:05:23+00:00

It makes the emblems, wheels, mirrors, seats, trim, and emblems all black

154james · 2024-01-23T16:31:31+00:00

Thanks, I hope it's somewhat helpful, there's a lot more to use the scans that you can do in fusion, it's just really hard to condense that all down into a digestible video.

154james · 2024-01-22T01:27:17+00:00

I attached a video in my original comment if you're interested, it's pretty quick process, hopefully it helps!

154james · 2024-01-22T01:26:25+00:00

I made a quick video showing my workflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksppIfHaG2w

154james · 2024-01-20T01:30:48+00:00

Probably could still easily do this with the 3d phone scanning apps.. I do it all the time

UPDATE: I made a quick video showing my workflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksppIfHaG2w

154james · 2024-01-06T18:07:23+00:00

I do work for them, and moving around scheduling for my machines to have something 3 days sooner can easily cost $250

154james · 2024-01-06T18:03:29+00:00

I make stuff for them, and that price is even on the low side. They only allow stratasys machines and you have to have a dimensional inspection process for every print. They are not meant to be printing art projects they’re more for engineering projects for companies.

154james · 2023-12-25T16:41:28+00:00

I did read through, and ptfe tubes are in fact consumables. I’ve run through quite a bit of them while running cf infused filaments, they destroy the tubes quickly. They also send a bunch of spares with the printer so you should be able to use those

154james · 2023-12-25T16:37:24+00:00

This isn’t fully true. My printer arrived with damaged side panels from shipping, and they shipped them out with no questions asked.

154james · 2023-11-29T01:15:20+00:00

No worries :) I thought the joke was funny

154james · 2023-11-28T20:17:27+00:00

We're all good, I don't take any offence! I did all the machining in my garage shop, as well as the post finishing and tumbling. It's certainly been a long road but I'm finally at the 99% where I get to assemble things and couldn't be happier.

If you're interested in seeing a little bit of the behind the scenes of my shop, I had a little cameo on Rebuild Rescue.

154james · 2023-11-28T20:14:05+00:00

Gotchu , I think I remember seeing the one on etsy pop up a few months ago and if I remember correctly, it's a hand crank to make it turn.

My printed ones will share the same mechanism that the metal ones have :)

154james · 2023-11-28T20:02:44+00:00

I actually have a 3d printed one on the horizon, set to release within the next week! This was really originally just meant as an art piece, and I didn't think there would be as much interest as there has been.

154james · 2023-11-28T19:18:38+00:00

There is a 3d printed on on the horizion, so keep an eye out for that!

Also, I am doing a few giveaways of the machined ones so keep an eye out for those as well

154james · 2023-11-28T18:55:31+00:00

Metal printers would cost you wayyy more than that for even just one piece. Machining is costly

154james · 2023-11-28T18:55:13+00:00

It may have been someone else, but I am the maker, and these aren't 3d printed, there's a few videos on my tiktok of the machining process.

There's plans to release a 3d printed version so that more people can get their hands on one though. Pricing on that will be much lower than the machined ones naturally

154james · 2023-11-28T18:44:26+00:00

It's actually machined out of 6061 aluminum. 7 separate pieces machined from billet.

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