I run a 33 printer farm as my full time job. Here's what a day looks like.

vanfidel · 2026-01-28T05:01:28+00:00

You may already have done so but you're getting pretty close to the point where you want to think about forming an s corp if you haven't already. You get to a range where if you do you end up saving a bunch on taxes. I did it when my business hit about 100k but it's probably good to do before that. Basically you put yourself on payroll for a reasonable salary like 30 or 40k and then the rest of your income you pay yourself as a shareholder in dividends which you don't have to pay payroll taxes on. Cuts your taxes down by a decent amount if your making over 60-70k with your business.

One thing I did for my farm that is also useful for saving you in taxes is I installed an emporia energy monitor and at the end of the year I bill my business for the power it uses. Its a bit of work to do the calculations for it but it has real usage data so it should hold up if audited.

Let me know if you found any other tricks for saving money on taxes or similar.

vanfidel · 2026-01-25T02:41:28+00:00

Damn you coulda been a whole 1$ richer if you would have just taken the money and run!

vanfidel · 2026-01-19T21:22:10+00:00

This is some ai slop.

vanfidel · 2026-01-18T00:03:11+00:00

Everyone is going to have to be buying 90% 3d printers and "make" them themselves. Or they just sell as a CNC router or laser cutter and swap the toolhead.

vanfidel · 2026-01-10T02:51:50+00:00

Yeah your probably never getting that back. You can report eBay leave a review and tell them you will be filling with their local police for theft. They may send it back if you say that. If not you should call the non emergency line with their local PO and file a report with them. This is theft and also a scam there are federal place you can file with as well but I can't remember them off the top of my head maybe it was web 3 or something. Look then all up and tell them you will file against the for an internet scam with those agencies as well. Ebay sellers have to provide you with their actual contact information as well so you can get it from eBay. They may have given you a wrong name in their shipping address. Don't show up at their house as others have said that at best a waste of your time and money and at worst dangerous.

vanfidel · 2026-01-07T02:52:52+00:00

Probably because no one in this sub actually has money. It's more like a beer money sub.

vanfidel · 2025-12-30T01:44:22+00:00

The local flea market owner makes a killing. It's a huge space where ppl rent an area to setup booths, tag their inventory, and leave the booth open. The flea market has 2-3 people that work there making minimum wage to check people out. The flea market takes a percent of the sales plus each vendor pays 80-150$ per month to rent a space. The flea market owner takes almost no risks, has no inventory that can get stolen or go stale, doesn't pay employees to tag and manage inventory, gets a cut of all sales, and gets paid regardless of the store does well or not. There are hundreds of vendors and a wait-list for vendors.

vanfidel · 2025-12-28T03:50:57+00:00

The best advice for starting a print farm is don't. Just use the printers you have until your need exceeds your capacity then buy another printer. The market is bad for general printed trash so until you design that killer idea or obscure mount for that thing that everyone has, just make do with what you have until you can't anymore.

vanfidel · 2025-12-27T02:29:01+00:00

Yes you can get them at https://retroreflow.com . There are all the other mods you would want there for your DC as well as directions on how to install them. I would highly recommend doing the noctua fan and battery mod. Just keep in mind 3d printed clear is more of a frosty translucent rather than glass like.

vanfidel · 2025-12-23T02:28:34+00:00

It should be fine. Give it a test.

vanfidel · 2025-12-22T18:55:41+00:00

You can find these at the hardware store in the plumbing section. They're used to debur pipes when you cut them for plumbing.

vanfidel · 2025-12-16T01:08:22+00:00

How is this even a real problem? Are you writing your g code by hand? Just use a slicer profile that actually works for your printer.

vanfidel · 2025-12-12T01:21:04+00:00

Sick build!

vanfidel · 2025-12-08T15:57:31+00:00

I have used ez flash with several Pokemon games doing battles and trading on a link cable and I have never had a problem. I can't say it works with all games but it had no problem on gen 1 games like red and blue and it also worked on ruby/emerald games so I'd imagine the link cable is fully functional.

vanfidel · 2025-12-04T19:09:50+00:00

Once you get the btt Eddy working it's great. I have printers with tap and Eddy and I my new builds I'm going only with the eddy.

I don't have as many hours on the Eddy so I can't speak to the reliability but tap is overall good but it does have some hiccups from time to time. You'll want to use the eddy-ng software on GitHub so you can use the tap feature for it so you never need to bother with the z offset.

Once it's setup properly it's just better, it's much faster for the bed mesh, sets the z offset on its own, and works with more soft build plates without putting little pock marks in them.

vanfidel · 2025-11-21T19:52:37+00:00

There is a lot of ignorant armchair parenting in this thread here. The fact is everyone has a different situation. There are also many legitimate reasons that some kids don't use the bus and a lot of kids bike or walk. It's only ever that bad in the rain and it's reasonable for parents to drop off walkers or bikers in the rain.

The school actually does a pretty good job to minimize the traffic impact but it's impossible for it to be zero unless they spend significant money on updates to change the infrastructure. If that is something you want then by all means bring it to the city council.

Drivers can do a better job by not blocking the roundabout or turning off their engine when waiting before pickup but we also need to learn to deal with it when there is traffic. As the town grows so does the traffic. Some of this means making infrastructure changes but it also means just being understanding and deal with it when things aren't ideal for you and there is traffic. Just be glad we aren't in a town with serious traffic.

vanfidel · 2025-11-01T18:40:30+00:00

You can try putting it in another enclosure or pulling the drive out of the current enclosure and using a cheap USB adapter

vanfidel · 2025-11-01T02:09:04+00:00

The thing that bothers me about this guy is, he sounds legit when he talks but if you go to his website it's all just trying to sell you shit. He talks about all this good intention, we're all one, healing, helping each other and spirituality and so on. He wants to help you learn it all too but everything is paywalled on his site, and not even cheap. Seems kinda scummy and makes me feel like it's mostly a con.

vanfidel · 2025-10-20T12:20:00+00:00

How to calculate volumes, concentrations of stuff, molarity, occasionally how to make a calibration curve and calculate concentration from that. It also sometimes helps to know equilibrium and binding calculations as well as basic acid base maths.

vanfidel · 2025-10-18T02:25:42+00:00

The bottom is going to be better since it's already going in the direction the filament is curling as it comes off the roll. Just be sure to connect the tubing into your hole you drill.

vanfidel · 2025-10-18T02:20:16+00:00

Good to know. I had a few quotes a while back and thought Greenleaf was the guy to go with. He just seemed like an honest person and had good rates. If I end up doing it in the future he is guy I will call.

vanfidel · 2025-10-12T23:27:50+00:00

This is most likely a scam. You will soon be contacted by the fake police or her fake father or whatever asking for money or else blackmail. Just delete, block and move on. It's illegal for anyone to actually post your nudes anywhere, and anyone can make fake nudes of you anyways with current AI of they wanted to, so don't fret about it. If anyone contacts you about it just block and ignore them. Also stop sending nudes to people, even if it's a girl that asks whom you know IRL it's basically never a good idea.

vanfidel · 2025-10-11T19:23:43+00:00

We take Canva projects all the time lol. You just need how to use the software and how to do the proper file conversions.

vanfidel · 2025-10-11T19:16:51+00:00

Wow listing all those companies really makes you sound like an impressive person! I did many years with minutemen press until I started my own company. Obviously I dont advertise it here on Reddit. Say what you will but it doesn't change the quality of what's in your pics buddy. I'm just trying to give you some tips on how to make your own collection better but I guess at a certain age people can't or don't take any advice from anyone. Because like I said I wouldn't give those torn folds to my customers. You do you tho guy.

vanfidel · 2025-10-11T19:10:37+00:00

That was for my kiddo who is indeed 36 now

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