Just trying to inject a little life into the ole forum.

[TORX]

Oh, and lets not forget firearms. Family is into them lately. That and archery. We dont have a room full or anything but my girls love their bows. My younger daughter has claimed my Derya semi auto and I use a BCL SIberian. She also really likes the Kriss Vector SBR. We recently sold off some of our firearms and those are our only 3 left but it is still a fun hobby and skill to learn.

Oh, and we can not forget my bug assault with laser site. Definitely needed will BBQ'ing and camping.

 

[Salty Cracker]

I just run a Ender 5 Plus with Microswiss NG hotend and SonicPad for my FDM and 2 Anycubic X2's. I do a lot of work on trains for people here in Ontario and diecast car parts for a guy in the US. I also do random jobs for people. Everything from design to the final product. Heck, my US guy will order 500 of a part at a time. It is his slow season though so spending my time designing and hoping to grab a few commission jobs.

Is there a way to start making your own product? Like without pissing off the guy you're doing work for? Like expanding what role you play, etc?
I've always said you will never get rich working for someone else (or living in a socialist country), but when you work for yourself at least the boss is okay to deal with.

 

[Winks]

I have wanted to try 3D printing, but there are so many printers out there that I don’t have a clue where to start.

I have 12 printers. End 3s, Ender 3 Pros, Ender 3 v2, Ender 6SE, Snap Maker and a Bambu with AMS. The one I enjoy the most and is the most reliable is the Bambu, but you pay a pretty good price for it, but it also has multiple colours (up to 16 colours per printer). The enders are great printers once tuned in. I enjoy the 3D printing along with the reefing.

 

[Salty Cracker]

Which Bambu are you using?

I've definitely looked at the convenience of multi-colour printers. Now I have to print pieces separate and assemble.

 

[Neopimp]

Wow people are alive

Metal detecting and guitars keep me entertained enough besides the hunny do list.

 

[Salty Cracker]

Wow people are alive

Metal detecting and guitars keep me entertained enough besides the hunny do list.

I've got a detector, a 125 year old barn on the property that was used during the klondike gold rush, I've also got a little stream on the property that I'm thinking I'm going to get into gold panning in. TONS of gold and nickel in our 16 million year old mountain range.

I tried the detector on the old barn area...just tons and tons of nails and bottle tops and pull tabs. I had checked it so that I wouldn't miss anything of value before I burned the damn thing to the bloody ground. There is a cycling app called strava, and there was a weird notation beside that barn (it was next to the road), and evidently the notation meant "good place to take an emergency dump". They had indeed been taking their emergency dumps there.... So I burned it and put up barbed wire. cyclists are a scourge.

I even have the guitars covered...was in a band for quite some time, ended up with a nice wolfgang guitar, a first production gibson SG (with factory installed bigsby) and a DNKY which is honestly my fav to play. I put on a drum track and just rock the f*ck out some weekends....the beauty of no neighbours. I don't have my marshall stacks anymore though, but the amount of production I have in the garage would put an 80's metal bar to shame. Smoke and DMX controls

 

[Neopimp]

I've got a detector, a 125 year old barn on the property that was used during the klondike gold rush, I've also got a little stream on the property that I'm thinking I'm going to get into gold panning in. TONS of gold and nickel in our 16 million year old mountain range.

I tried the detector on the old barn area...just tons and tons of nails and bottle tops and pull tabs. I had checked it so that I wouldn't miss anything of value before I burned the damn thing to the bloody ground. There is a cycling app called strava, and there was a weird notation beside that barn (it was next to the road), and evidently the notation meant "good place to take an emergency dump". They had indeed been taking their emergency dumps there.... So I burned it and put up barbed wire. cyclists are a scourge.

I even have the guitars covered...was in a band for quite some time, ended up with a nice wolfgang guitar, a first production gibson SG (with factory installed bigsby) and a DNKY which is honestly my fav to play. I put on a drum track and just rock the f*ck out some weekends....the beauty of no neighbours. I don't have my marshall stacks anymore though, but the amount of production I have in the garage would put an 80's metal bar to shame. Smoke and DMX controls

sounds like i should go live in your back shed.

 

[Winks]

Which Bambu are you using?

I've definitely looked at the convenience of multi-colour printers. Now I have to print pieces separate and assemble.

I grabbed the X1 Carbon. I want to move the other printers and get another X1. It almost prints by itself. Bambu has made it so easy. I have about 2,000 hours of printing on it and zero fails.

 

[Salty Cracker]

I grabbed the X1 Carbon. I want to move the other printers and get another X1. It almost prints by itself. Bambu has made it so easy. I have about 2,000 hours of printing on it and zero fails.

Zero fails???

That's incredible, but of course... that's a pricey printer. What on earth are you printing 2000 of though, doesn't sound quite like a hobby.

 

[Salty Cracker]

sounds like i should go live in your back shed.

Do be careful, I fired shots at 2 different trespassers already.
The horse barn got burned accidentally to the ground last fall. Terrible loss of history that was.
However there is a horse shed out back, we can settle you in there until I decide it's time to get chickens