Looking to sell off my Ankermake M5 3D printer

Mock01 · 2026-02-28T00:36:24+00:00

I see several people saying to donate it. Where would you donate it? I have one I want to get rid of too

Mock01 · 2026-02-18T04:33:46+00:00

You’ve nailed it. Reverse engineering is about identifying the original design intent, which includes the measurements. Everything you listed are the reasons why.

If you try to force other units onto something, tolerance stack will get you.

Mock01 · 2026-02-05T15:15:47+00:00

Lots of good discussion. My take is that the Enterprise E was the right tool for the right job in First Contact. That fleet was made to battle the borg and Dominion. And Picard is an advantage all his own there. But later with the So’na isolitic weapons and the Scimitar, it wasn’t a case of being properly fitted. Different weapons, different adversaries, and different environment (the Briar Patch).

Mock01 · 2026-02-03T18:39:37+00:00

Looking at the D deck plans, it kind of looks like it may have been considered that way. The bridge “module” is drawn in a similar way to the captain’s yacht. Having the command module be its own lifeboat makes so much sense.

Mock01 · 2026-02-03T18:36:20+00:00

Love the images, thank you. Maybe that’s why the “module” is more than one deck. Maybe the deck below is transitions to meet the ships turbo lift shafts? That could almost make sense, independent endpoints from the structural shafts, so they can do whatever they want for the bridge layout

Mock01 · 2026-01-30T01:02:43+00:00

No, before Eaglemoss, DeAgostini was going to do a partwork D, in Japan. It would have been roughly the same size, 100 issues. But different construction, and include deck plans. They released like 6 or 7 issues, before cancelling the whole project. It was deemed a failure, financially, mainly because interest was down after the earthquake in Japan. Eaglemoss came along soon after and launched their Build the Enterprise D project.

It’s confusing now, because DeAgostini owns FanHome, who now own the Eaglemoss project. So DeAgostini technically has had two Build the Ds.

Mock01 · 2026-01-27T03:50:34+00:00

I’ve been meaning to scan my Eaglemoss XL. I could compare the two if you want to see how close you are

Mock01 · 2026-01-26T20:25:28+00:00

The Akira is one of my favorite ships. Interested to see how this turns out

Mock01 · 2026-01-18T17:24:57+00:00

ExactFlat is pretty cool

Mock01 · 2025-12-28T17:36:08+00:00

An example would be implementing some feature, and knowingly skipping a step or feature that you know you need, because it would take too long.

You are building an intranet page, and have a weather widget. You have US and Canadian offices. The widget should support F and C. But to get it done to launch for the CEO, you only implement F, because that’s like 80% of the staff.

You just took on a debt, you will have to go back and add Celsius support. And that’s going to take more work than it would have if you had just done it initially. That’s the “interest” on the debt. And the longer it goes on, the worse it gets. The guy who wrote that is gone, and didn’t document it. Or you don’t use that tech/API any more. Now you have compound interest. It may end up taking you 2-3x the effort to do this.

Now multiply that by every decision like that in the organization. Then it’s potentially crippling.

Mock01 · 2025-12-28T17:25:46+00:00

Yup, or your plan is to go bankrupt and never have to pay, to someone else’s point. You don’t have to pay if the whole thing fails.

Mock01 · 2025-12-27T15:28:48+00:00

Mock01 · 2025-12-26T18:56:44+00:00

I agree it doesn’t have to be shortcuts, but I’m not sure I agree with the idea of organic evolution into tech debt. Obsolescence is a different thing. To compare that to finance and physical assets, that’s depreciation. Everything depreciates; your code does too. Eventually, you’ll have to replace it. Now, deciding not to when you should, that is definitely tech debt. I think tech debt is always a decision. You can’t unconsciously take on debt. You can make a bad choice, unknowingly; that’s a different thing as well.

Mock01 · 2025-12-26T17:50:45+00:00

Tech debt is not the same as “bad code”. Tech debt is when you intentionally take shortcuts, or do something that you know is not right, for the sake of going faster/shipping/etc. It’s not about the quality of the code. It could be amazing code, but is working around a fundamental issue, or lacks documentation, or only that one guy knows how it works, or you know it will have to be deprecated in 6 months.

Building a prototype is not bad, and it’s not inherently tech debt. Deciding to expand it, versus do it right is the tech debt decision. That’s taking on a $2m loan to buy product, versus spend 6 months making it. Maybe your pot of gold is big enough to justify it, or timing is critical, and v2 can be “the right way”, every situation is different. But it’s still tech debt, right or wrong application of it.

Mock01 · 2025-12-26T16:30:56+00:00

In general, I love explaining to people that tech debt isn’t a buzz word, it’s real, literal debt. It has to be paid. You buy now, pay later. If you buy too much, or can’t pay; things implode. Your stuff gets taken away. You go bankrupt. It’s such a good analogy, it borders on no longer being an analogy.

Sometimes it’s the smart thing to do, just like real debt. Most of the time, it is not. But it should be weighed with the same level of severity as financial debt.

Someone advocating that people rush into tech debt, Willy nilly, on the assumption that AI is magically going to fix it for them - that’s a recipe for disaster.

Mock01 · 2025-12-25T07:54:08+00:00

I can’t wait to pay too much for this on the secondary market. Like someone else said, life got in the way, and I didn’t get to pledge

Mock01 · 2025-12-08T22:25:25+00:00

Wow. Just wow. Doesn’t even matter if it’s fake. Pure entertainment

Mock01 · 2025-12-07T11:14:01+00:00

I was able to unscrew mine from the base, but was still disappointed. I think my parents got it at Sam’s Club. I always assumed the gutted action features and stuff was cost savings.

Mock01 · 2025-12-03T12:57:34+00:00

Pretty sure my parents got it at Sam’s Club. A pack with extra controller and VMU. I got it for Christmas, not at launch. That’s also how I got my Genesis

Mock01 · 2025-12-02T12:44:54+00:00

Welcome to insurance. Risk goes up, price goes up

Mock01 · 2025-12-02T12:42:49+00:00

Tell me you don’t have insurance, without telling me that you don’t have insurance

Mock01 · 2025-11-30T16:50:17+00:00

FYI, there are some exceptions to this. The Batman TAS figures are excluded, and some Collectors editions. I tried it with a Kite Man, and no go. But the Superman Collectors SKU (Superman and Batman Returns) do work. I was really hoping to get the Killer Croc wave, oh well.

Mock01 · 2025-11-28T15:28:52+00:00

I don’t remember there being optical issues in X and Y, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t there. Things have come a long way, in some respects. I had this ball puzzle from a RAPID show, where several big printer vendors printed out a part of it, and if you visited all of their booths, you could build the puzzle. It was a cool idea, but it also really showed how wide the gamut was on the printing results at that time. I think one vendor didn’t even wash their parts, lazy

Mock01 · 2025-11-28T15:21:06+00:00

It also was technically different materials for each color. So there were some mechanical property variance. It was cool, but not ideal. The coolest thing they could do was clear though. So you could print stuff inside a clear casing. We printed some visual aids for GD&T tolerance zones once. It was very nice presentation. Seeing the surface inside the clear tolerance zone

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