John Coltrane on Tenor Sax with Miles Davis.
Posted on 05/28/2014 9:45:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sorry to hear about your OneUp difficulties. I lucked out with my CTC, had it up a couple hours out of the box. The Makerbot machines are getting a lot of attention in the media. But I was hesitant about spending so much on one. After getting a CTC for $660 plus $30 for shipping, I wondered what it could do. Mildly surprised to find it does as much as a Makerbot, and uses the same software and setup (a clone). Then I read of others who had both CTC and Replicator machines and felt burned by the high price of Makerbot. Then again, they created the machine and others copied them. Sometimes cheap is better...
Which is precisely why I haven't coughed up any dough yet. A really good idea, but iffy execution thus far. I'm definitely into "emptor" with these folks.
We already have a Roland MDX-40A "subtractive printer", and it has paid for itself many times over.
That’s a nice little machine!
http://www.archive3d.net/?category=28&page=145
A site I found that has 3d models. I haven’t yet tried making any from this site.
“YES!!! Finally someone remembers the joke! (You must be oooooold!)”
I must be old too. I got the joke immediately the first time you posted it a while back. I never suspected some people didn’t get it.
Welcome to my world...
That it is. Lots of work area, and surprisingly precise and accurate (easily 0.0005"). Only drawback is that the cutting head needs more "oommpphh". If you have time to wait, it can do quite a lot, and since we do a lot of "onesy, twosy" stuff, I can set it up to run overnight and have a mostly finished part waiting in the AM.
I found that the key to success was to pay LOTS of attention to work-holders, and have the machine itself make the holders. Repeatability using that approach is excellent.
John Coltrane on Tenor Sax with Miles Davis.
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