Im not surprised that's a thing

i'm prooobably actually gonna go for a router over a knee mill, easier to cut front panels and such plus i don't need to work with steel

everything i do with metal aluminum is fine

Where do you purchase aluminium?

aluminium tree

he probably just has a local supplier

right now i just have a couple fdm machines, they're neat and all and i can work with a loooot of materials with em since my hotend gets up to 300C and i have a pretty good fume-catching setup, but like you can only do thermoplastics with those

or just harvests it from shit like i do

sure nylon is cool, polyurethane is cool, but i want metal too

i live down the road from the industrial side of town

i can get any material i need, hell i can usually ask a buddy for some scrap and they go "yeah sure take i"

i harvest shit as well though, rebuilding atm but i have a filament extruder for recycling plastics

o shit cool

Anyone have an SLA/DLP printer?

60/40 virgin abs resin / recycled shells gives you serviceable plastic blend for anything where strength isnt critical

i'm looking at getting a dlp printer

wait for the wanhao d7 to hit v2

that's what i'm doing

I'm comfortable with the idea * of building one

be aware though uv resin is about as expensive as good quality rtv silicone

it's not cheap like fdm

How expensive are we talking about

$20 a liter?

try $60-$100

Holy fuck

for decent quality resin

But the resolution on dem parts

i'm sure there's some horrible shit resin that doesnt work right and takes too long to cure for $20/L

but you don't want that for sla/dlp printer

that's more for molding parts

Yup, i'm guessing that's the difference

between the regular resin that's 20$ a litre

Curing time

there's also the 3d printing markup

like how virgin abs pellets costs next to nothing but abs filament for 3d printer can cost $30/kg for a decent brand

Cant you combat that with an insanely bright UV projection solution though?

probably

give it a shot and lemme know how it goes

I know you can get 50W UV leds

it may make me less hesitant to go for dlp

and i can rig an adequate cooling system