you'd need a large bed to make big enough single wedges

and that means you either get a lot of "ringing" artefacts on the print from the frame wobbling, or you print suuuper slow

also it can legit take longer to print large things than it'd take for it to ship if you just buy one, this is one of those things

my raspberry pi rackmount blade chassis thing took something on the order of two weeks actual print time

that's including failed prints, ofc

which are kinda just part of the game

point is 3d printed speaker stand: not the best plan

just stack books or set em on a box

i still wanna attatch a 3d printer head onto my cnc router eventually

i'd suggest just buying/building a printer

already building a cnc router

you don't have a tall enough z axis on a router to get much use with fdm

i could make it as tall as i want

and if you try to _make_ it tall enough you'll run into rigidity issues while cutting

im gonna have to build a bunch more anyway

making it taller will cost a terribly lot more since the entire frame is gonna have to be much thicker and more rigid, and the price does not scale nice and linearly

im gonn have to build one specifically to deal with cutting metals a ton

otherwise the movement and pressure on the tool head is gonna cuse the whole z axis to wobble around as you cut

even then, a router with a tall z is gonna have to be extremely rigid

you aren't talking aluminum extrusion or even steel angle anymore, you're talking thick steel plate, welded not bolted together

thats not particularly hard tbh

it isn't but do you really wanna spend all that instead of yknow

$200 on parts for a 3d printer on the side

true

3d printer would only be for prototyping anyway

since those can be fairly light and flimsy since there's not much force on the effector

you ever pressed aluminium?

in what context

like into shapes

sorta how car floors nd shit are made

tho just aluminium

nah, only pressed holes in

ah

i don't have room for a Serious PRess, just kinda a POS "big ole bolts and a long handled wrench" "press"

im interested in it because it'd be a really cheap way to mass make some cheap ass headphone cups with some complicated designs

and i gave that away some years ago since it's kinda pointless

way cheaper and more time effective than cncing wood at least

i dunno, aluminum can be kind of a bitch to work with acoustically

wood is much nicer

yeah no i know

id have to do a fuck ton of rearwave damping