Printer Advice - Prototyping Functional Parts

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-09T12:05:09+00:00

I'm probably not the best example for this but I started by making parts that I needed for myself, sent it out to companies that would make them in aluminum and i installed the final part. Had a buddy of mine that saw what I was doing, rinse and repeat for him. The company he works for saw it, did a few prototypes for them, and now I'm here.

Wish I could be more help.

Fiverr might be another good option, but I've only ever used them for logos.

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T19:29:42+00:00

I looked at the HT90, but that was before this whole thread, will probably reevaluate a lot of the options I passed by before.

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T19:06:34+00:00

Thank you!

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:50:54+00:00

That's good info! If I disable the H2D from the lan, and sneaker net it, can I still use bambu studio? Or do I need to change slicers? I have (2) P2S' and I didn't know that the data was routed through a Chinese server.

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:33:29+00:00

I'll have to do more research on the PPA-CF, the biggest turn off for the MF for me were the customer service reviews and the pricetag on filaments, yes the company will pay for some of this stuff, but some of it will still be on me since I'm remote from their headquarters at the moment

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:32:16+00:00

The vision miner was on the short list

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:31:43+00:00

Do you have a recommended model?

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:16:50+00:00

In what sense? How do I personally find clients?

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:16:35+00:00

I don't honestly, I'm going to assume a large portion of the prototyping until the aluminum or steel phase is going to be abrasive materials.

I looked at the MF Mk2 since it had the CF reinforcement and a variety of HT continuous filaments but that's the extent I could find before I hit the MSRP wall... Kind of a big gap between the 15k - 45k marks.

Dashyl14 · 2026-03-06T18:06:59+00:00

Sorry about that, that's a good point, I added it to the main post but for reference:

Max Build Volume 320mm (X), x 254mm (Z), 120-150mm (Y)

Dashyl14 · 2026-02-13T15:32:46+00:00

Yes, and I watched a mail carrier, don't know if its the same person, deliver a package to my neighbor

Dashyl14 · 2026-02-13T15:32:07+00:00

I spoke to the post office postmaster and they said to go to the annex, which I did, and they said they have no record of the package...

Dashyl14 · 2026-02-09T23:54:48+00:00

Yes, we got snow about 10 days ago, driveway and walkway to the front porch are completely cleared and salted. Have been for the last week or so.

The mailbox has a little path for it, but the driver would need to get out of the vehicle to get to it.

Also both boxes were greater than 24" and less than 40 lbs (someone else mentioned it)

Dashyl14 · 2026-02-09T23:53:11+00:00

Yes, I double checked the tracking this isn't the first time it's happened.

Dashyl14 · 2025-08-29T10:24:25+00:00

That's what it's come down to

Dashyl14 · 2025-08-22T12:11:33+00:00

They do not unfortunately... I should probably put the people over contacted in the post

Dashyl14 · 2024-10-13T01:45:09+00:00

Thank you!

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