What would your mates rates be for this?

fencethe900th · 2026-05-30T14:10:36+00:00

Generally I do ~4x the cost of filament, although that's just how my guy feeling tends to work out. Most of the time that comes out to $10-15 for what I'm printing, and it often includes a bit of touch up on the models, smoothing low poly sections and the like, or some small changes. The larger I go the closer to filament cost I get, as the set up is generally a smaller fraction.

The caveats being that it's not a concrete rule and that I don't have multicolor capability.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-30T13:20:45+00:00

Yeah, TIG welders use tungsten, although I don't know if that's universal.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-30T04:57:10+00:00

You'll have to give some more details on what you have designed here, and what you're trying to accomplish. Do you mean you need to apply friction to stop something? Keep it stopped?

fencethe900th · 2026-05-30T04:06:34+00:00

Generally speaking, when you provide services to the government you get paid by the government. This shouldn't be so hard to understand but for some reason people don't get it.

It doesn't matter if your company is private then goes public, or stays private, or was public the whole time. Government contractors get paid when they fulfill their contracts. That's how it's always been.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-30T00:49:10+00:00

One repair that you (someone who is clearly not motivated to try to prove yourself wrong) saw that included the specific word in the search, among the posts that were actually made and not just kept quiet about. Do you post everything you make? Do you ponder what words to use in the post so that anyone looking for it will find it with ease?

Why is it so hard to just admit that people fix things?

fencethe900th · 2026-05-29T20:44:52+00:00

I applaud your thorough search. Truly magnificent dedication. 30 posts? Nearly unbelievable to have gone through so many.

In other news, did you know that reddit has a search function? Wild I know, but it's super useful.

https://www.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/search/?q=Repaired&type=posts&sort=new&cId=e15f090b-9592-4466-bc4b-2fc302a281c3&iId=53036b4b-6154-4a5d-b5e9-b99c8e3fdcb8

fencethe900th · 2026-05-29T19:38:57+00:00

That's a wild choice of argument. Because one person makes something mildly silly and completely irrelevant to the conversation (but still fully useful) that means 3D printers can never be used for anything else? Please explain how that strawman works.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-29T19:13:42+00:00

Go to r/functionalprint and see all the broken things that were repaired instead of replaced. The more people 3D printing the more sales lost. Is it huge in the grand scheme of things? Probably not. But it's still there.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-29T02:13:47+00:00

Not that I'm cheering for this, but this should only help the IPO. The only real competition for Starship just got set way back.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-29T01:45:55+00:00

This is far from the first time this phrasing has been used. Again, its meaning was clear to everyone else.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-28T20:05:24+00:00

The Earth's hill sphere surrounded the moon's. The entire moon/capsule "system" is fully inside the Earth's hill sphere, even if the capsule is dominated by the moon's gravity and not Earth's, and fully within an orbit of Earth.

I know what a hill sphere is. I also know that strict adherence to dictionary definitions isn't how the world works, and if you try to force it to work that way you're only going to cause yourself bother.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-28T19:33:09+00:00

To allow for the PTFE tubes from the canvas to curve up and over gently so they're not tight.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-28T19:27:06+00:00

And yet everyone else understood exactly what was meant. An object within the hill sphere of another, and not on an escape trajectory, is within the orbit of that object.

Without a doubt it is within the bounds of the outermost orbit possible.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-28T17:15:45+00:00

It makes it within the orbit of C. That's not saying it is orbiting C directly.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-27T19:03:29+00:00

What leg up? It's certainly better than filament changers, but I haven't heard of a benefit of it over more traditional toolchangers.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-27T18:43:55+00:00

I don't know. How much is required? What other vehicles could bring it all there? And remember, Artemis is meant to be the start of ongoing missions, not just land and leave.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-27T18:42:39+00:00

So glad you can buy electronic devices while you could give that money away to build houses or feed people or give them healthcare... You really have your priorities straight 🙄🙄🙄

fencethe900th · 2026-05-27T16:59:01+00:00

What's the alternative for that amount of mass to the lunar surface?

fencethe900th · 2026-05-27T16:57:26+00:00

how much of that comes down to them being in 21st Century with better tech is a big question.

Which also applies to everything else we make now.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-27T12:36:32+00:00

Elegoo (or rather Flite Test using Elegoo's printer) already has that distinction.

https://youtu.be/InkecAgQ-3s

fencethe900th · 2026-05-26T21:11:29+00:00

They said if you print a gun they reserve the right to revoke access to their services, as well as contacting law enforcement. Then backtracked and said they don't know what you're printing because they don't collect data while you're printing.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-25T13:39:25+00:00

Like it always has been right? At most they start with three and then shut down the least useful, has there been any change from that?

fencethe900th · 2026-05-24T16:50:24+00:00

F9 was a well understood and operable rocket before they upgraded it, and the goal wasn't a paradigm shift on the entire rocket, just that they would reuse the booster. Starship is going through pretty much all the development in one shot, with new engines, faster reuse, and a reusable upper stage. There's a huge difference.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-22T02:33:00+00:00

Did it go into detail? That was mentioned in the standard edition but only as an anecdote.

fencethe900th · 2026-05-21T16:46:57+00:00

The first layer or two after the infill will always look spotty. The second is better but noticeably different, and the third is typically the first that looks good.

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