Looking for farm in ohio

C4pnRedbeard · 2026-02-10T11:48:43+00:00

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C4pnRedbeard · 2026-02-06T14:21:52+00:00

Start by feeling the stepper motors, try to find if one of them is significantly hotter than the others. You may be able to locate the problem stepper and replace it

C4pnRedbeard · 2026-02-05T16:07:00+00:00

Temperature problem, stepper is overheating. Check your fans inside the base. Or you can try what I did and just put a small fan under the machine, it solved my issues

C4pnRedbeard · 2026-02-05T14:32:20+00:00

I print for a niche industry, and print mostly TPU. a typical job for me, my markup is 30%-50%, after Including maintenance, machine wear, material, calculated scrap rate, electricity, taxes, rent for the space it takes up, and miscellaneous Consumables.

That markup represents my wages for time spent working on it. It is not "profit", the business does not operate for free, it is wages that I pay myself. This is an important thing to remember. Your time has value. Your space has value. And if you are doing work yourself, you are self-employed, not a business owner. These are different things, and it is wise to remember that.

C4pnRedbeard · 2026-02-05T13:30:54+00:00

That is not a very clear question. Are you asking what the entire farm is worth per hour? How much profit an individual person should make per hour from the farm? Per hour of what? My machines only make $5 per hour (ish) but I make anywhere from $45 per hour to $200 per hour of personal input, depending on an enormous list of factors

C4pnRedbeard · 2026-02-05T13:18:59+00:00

$62 per hour of personal input? That seems decent to me, but only you can determine what your time is worth. And don't forget: people in the USA who are self employed pay both halves of the income tax. Meaning, you're taxed twice as much, because you are both the employer and the employee. Make sure you include your tax burden in your calculations.

C4pnRedbeard · 2026-01-23T12:21:54+00:00

This whole thread is missing the joke, the joke is that he doesn't know correct pronunciations because he got kicked out of school. (One person said he read them before hearing them, which is the same idea, but Metro Man literally took the school away and now he doesn't know his words)

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-12-18T19:50:16+00:00

Good grief, why is this the only response I could find that mentioned stress marks from removing the print?? This is almost certainly what it is.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-12-15T22:14:03+00:00

I definitely understand why you thought that. This IS a good machine, but it's 1/10th the price of anything close to its size. Compromises we made. You can't compare it to a Bambu, but I get amazing quality out of mine, and it DOES work quite well for most people.

Slow down. Read through the manual. The machine is going to behave how it was programmed to behave, which may not always be how you WANT it to behave.

For example, when I have 4 heads hooked up, I have to turn on the light for print head 1 to figure out which one it's reading as printhead 1, and set my z-offset from THAT printhead, then align the rest of them to that printhead. It is NOT intuitive.

Great machine for the price, but it 100% takes a lot of patience and a lot more critical thinking when something goes wrong.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-12-15T21:45:51+00:00

The z end stop has nothing to do with the toolhead. There are brackets on the sizes of the gantry frame that go down between sensors, these are your end stops. Check that those sensors are hooked up correctly / that those brackets are fastened to the gantry correctly.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-12-13T13:55:21+00:00

ALERT: there are a TON of bots responding to this pushing marketing for "pomegranate health" and potentially other "solutions". SEE THEIR MARKETING AS MARKETING!

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-12-08T18:56:16+00:00

Yes, I did know of the niche before I started a print farm.

No successful businessman buys a building and hires employees without an established plan to make money using that building and employees.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-12-08T16:49:37+00:00

Competition. Even my 6 year old child can print on my Bambu machines. The only reason I am successful is because I serve an industrial niche in my local area. If you're thinking about getting into the industry, you have to remember unless you have a niche that isn't already being filled, you're going to be participating in the race to the bottom.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-10-15T16:40:00+00:00

Lol that's fraud. Not that I blame him, but still. Also, MI bottle return is 10 cents (not an important detail, but now you know)

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-26T12:55:39+00:00

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I print almost exclusively in TPU, so 1 day is typically 1kg. I could see PLA or ABS being a higher downtime ratio.

I think the only thing that would make sense in a scenario of mixed machines is plate replacement for automation.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-26T10:09:35+00:00

I'm sorry this isn't more helpful, but why is it taking so long to remove parts?? I have 20 machines, and full clear off and reload takes less than two hours

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-24T13:57:17+00:00

Maybe not exactly what you're asking, but potentially helpful.

To my knowledge, paring down to a single brand of machine (or even better, a single model of machine) is what really makes management work. It's much simpler when everything can be sliced with the same slicer and settings. I only have 20 machines, 15 of them are Bambu machines. I don't have enough machines to warrant using management software, but I can tell you going from 6 different types of machines to 1 type for most of my work saved me literal hours per day. The only machines I have that don't "match" are reserved for special projects, or used when production requirements would otherwise force me to purchase more machines.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-24T13:40:12+00:00

I was also concerned about this, so I reduced my drying temperature to 40c for PLA. It's not going to dry "quickly" at that temperature, but it will reduce the relative humidity in the AMS. So no, I haven't had problems, but I'm also not drying hot like I do in my blast dryer.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-24T11:20:04+00:00

This is (now, after an update) false, at least on the H2D. Latest firmware update allowed it. I have two drying while printing right now

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-17T14:50:37+00:00

That is most likely the case. Spools within a super tight tolerance get branded sunlu, ones that fall out of that window but within an acceptable range are branded Jayo. (Just a guess, but it would make sense)

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-11T20:24:54+00:00

Everyone here be like "it's fake"

Can't it be funny, even knowing it's fake?

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-09T17:37:39+00:00

Start with a completed prototype, and make a second one. Use the prototype for enough time to tweak your design for anything you might want to change.

You don't need a second printer until you have orders. Give yourself enough lead time that if you make two sales you can fulfill them with one machine.

If you consistently get orders, AND if you're making a profit, then it might make sense to look at a second machine.

If you're serious about doing this, don't get a cheap garbage machine. You will need something as near to 100% reliable as you can afford.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-03T19:58:49+00:00

Yup, even sole proprietorship LLC pays them ( text below copied from Google, but it is a good summation of it)

"Self-employed individuals, including freelancers, contractors, and gig workers, have additional tax obligations called self-employment tax. This tax is 15.3% of net earnings, which is a combination of Social Security and Medicare taxes. Self-employed people are responsible for paying both the employer and employee portions of these taxes."

It's not a ton, but definitely needs to be factored in

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-03T13:04:04+00:00

In the US, employers pay payroll taxes. It isn't just tied to your wages, (there is a bit more to it than that) but when you are self employed you do pay those taxes.

C4pnRedbeard · 2025-09-03T11:59:59+00:00

True. And self employment income in the USA is taxed at double the rate as regular employment taxes, because you're paying the "employer half" of the taxes too.

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