/biz/ - Business & Finance

[Anonymous No.18544414]

What’s a better investment in the event that we run into Venezuela tier inflation in USA? Bitcoin? Or a 3D printer to produce products that I can barter with? Already have PM, guns, and ammo.

[Anonymous No.18544450]

>>18544414
Good, like-minded neighbors.

[Anonymous No.18544489]

>>18544450
Got some of those too

[Anonymous No.18544529]

>>18544489
Learn a trade that can be exercised with local inputs. Something that would justify keeping you alive.

[Anonymous No.18544604]

>>18544529
I mean, thanks, but you’re not answering my question. I’m already an EMT, so I figure that skill and knowledge set will come in handy. Also starting to teach myself how to code.

[Anonymous No.18544634]

Maybe I could print casts and splints for people?

[Anonymous No.18544654]

>>18544414
If it ever gets so bad that you need to barter with objects instead of money you won't have electricity to run your 3D printer.

[Anonymous No.18544672]

>>18544654
Generator and/or solar panels + power wall

[Anonymous No.18544673]

>>18544604
I'm not sure what else would you need.
Maybe some months of supplies, including drinking and for other uses water.
Depending on where you live, one week should suffice, because in a big city, one week without water wouldn't be pretty. Keep gas to fill your tank stored somewhere, if this is allowed in your city and you own a car.
Propane for cooking would also be good.
Basically, what FEMA would recommend for an emergency that last over more than a few days; you don't need to go full prepper.

[Anonymous No.18544692]

>>18544672
Get those before you think about a 3D printer.

[Anonymous No.18544754]

>>18544692
Okay so 3D printer would be the better investment with my trumpbux instead of bitcoin then right?

[Anonymous No.18544775]

>>18544414
Bic lighters, 9mm, and condoms.

[Anonymous No.18544793]

>>18544754
consider you won't have internet and there won't be a blockchain accessible by other people

[Anonymous No.18544797]

>>18544754
It depends on how soon you think there will be hyperinflation\crisis
if its a year away and BTC moons in a month how will you feel with a printer instead?

[Anonymous No.18544801]

Property, stocks to an extent, Bitcoin is still a big ? but couldn't hurt compared to cash

[Anonymous No.18544821]

>>18544775
>he took the bic pill
baste

[Anonymous No.18544864]

At least diversify into a single btc. That covers the entire crypto exposure.
Hyperinflation implies total collapse so
your own food supply - MREs, a garden, backyard chickens is as useful as any asset and they barely cost anything.

[Anonymous No.18544873]

>>18544754
3D PRINTING IS A MEME. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO PRINT? ACTION FIGURES? CHESS SET? A BAG CLIP TO KEEP YOUR BREAD FRESH? OOOO LOOK I MADE A DICE ROLLER OR A NERF GUN ACCESSORY OR A PHONE HOLDER... ITS ALL USELESS SHIT

[Anonymous No.18544878]

>>18544414

Check a list made by the Mormons for what you need to prep. As far as investments go, things people would need. Buy fish antibiotics, various types for gram positive and negative bacteria. They're the same as human antibiotics. Not sure you want to arm strangers in your area so I wouldn't sell guns or ammo to anyone local, but I would keep extra for friends and family. Vice stuff, like coffee, cigarettes, liquor. Extra dried food. Things for preserving meat, like salt or canning supplies.

[Anonymous No.18544958]

i could print medical equipment. Braces, splints, crutch handles, cervical collars, etc.

[Anonymous No.18544971]

>>18544958
Meant for
>>18544873

[Anonymous No.18545062]

>>18544958
That will never happen. It’s a toy. It won’t make anything that you can sell.

[Anonymous No.18545096]

>>18544873
YES RETARD IF WE GO TO WAR WITH CHINA A MACHINE THAT MAKES CHEAP PLASTIC JUNK IS LIKE HAVING A LITTLE PIECE OF CHINA AT HOME, BAG CLIPS DON'T MATERIALIZE FROM THIN AIR.

[Anonymous No.18545103]

>>18545062
Why would that never happen?

[Anonymous No.18545115]

>>18544654
there's a dude who made a 3d printer that's solar powered and uses sand to make clay pots and shit

[Anonymous No.18545131]

>>18544775
>lighters
based and oneyearinhell-pilled

[Anonymous No.18545168]

>>18545115
traditional means of making clay pots is probably 10 times faster than printing them and won't consume electricity

also i think the world has enough plastic buckets to last us through the apocalypse

[Anonymous No.18545401]

>>18545103
Eh dyor dude but I don’t even know where to start.
You gonna stock up on belts, extruders, FILAMENT, stepper motors, controllers, psu, you ready to know how to service it when it breaks? You know cad? Medical equipment? Custom fit? Better be really fucking good at CAD then. Oops you messed up that brace you spent 73 hours printing and it’s trash and you just burned through a $40 roll of filament on that one print.

[Anonymous No.18545436]

>>18545168
what is that? a cleaver for giants?

[Anonymous No.18545462]

>>18544873
There are plenty of ways to make money with a 3D printer. Almost none of them involve printing and selling an object.

[Anonymous No.18545485]

>>18545062
you are so fucking wrong

the point of a 3d printer is rapid prototyping, you can conceptualize a thing and then that thing is in your hands an hour later. you can use it to make molds and cast things out of sturdier materials or use it to quickly iterate on new ideas without spending resources on machining or injection molding

stop posting

[Anonymous No.18545503]

>>18545485
this

[Anonymous No.18545584]

>>18545462
>>18545485
Wow no shit fucktard. But read what OP is saying. He wants to make medical equipment with shitty plastic and sell it.

[Anonymous No.18545600]

>>18545485
Oh and an HOUR later hahahahaha. You’re clueless dude

[Anonymous No.18545633]

pic related

[Anonymous No.18545634]

Don't just buy a 3D printer, we're past that now.
ghostgunner.net

[Anonymous No.18545702]

This is like 17in long. It literally took 4-5 days to print on a $5k makerbot (which are incredibly shitty but it’s not mine it’s my employers)

[Anonymous No.18545703]

I think you're looking for /x/, where schizos like you belong.

[Anonymous No.18545829]

>>18545634
A good idea but you’re better off learning how to build a machine yourself.
Openbuilds dot com

[Anonymous No.18545866]

>>18545703
fed cope. misdirection failed

[Anonymous No.18545893]

>>18545829
Porque no los dos? Can't invest all your time and money right now? Buy a prebuilt package. When you get the time to learn, learn it too.

[Anonymous No.18546777]

>>18544450
How do we start a community of sane people these days

[Anonymous No.18546798]

>>18544414
canned food, rice, pasta, salt, sugar, honey, gold, silver, safety matches, disposable lighters, toilet paper, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste

[Anonymous No.18546807]

>>18544414
booze, cigarettes, painkillers, books, porn mags

[Anonymous No.18546829]

>>18544873
>>18544958

Former 3D printing technician here. Can confirm it's a meme unless you're one of the .001% with super expensive laser sintering machines to make miniature aircraft engine components. Basically relegated to making models, knick-knacks, and fidget spinners. Also unless you get a particularly expensive nice one, expect to limit whatever you're making to a 10"x10"x10" envelope, which rules out most of the medical equipment you just listed. Also the ABS these printers use combined with the method it's laid layer by layer makes the object very mechanically weak.

[Anonymous No.18546830]

>>18544414
tools, duct tape, adhesives, diy consumables

[Anonymous No.18546857]

>>18546777
You’re not gonna find any of those here. Instead I would like to live in a community of paranoid, frog worshiping racists who sleep during the day and kill anything that enters our walls.

[Anonymous No.18546899]

>>18545168

I've seen this machine in question and its not a practical production machine. It was more like a proof of concept for how to make a mechanically-powered 3D printer where the printing "data" for the resulting object is an analog object that is basically a bent piece of wire

[Anonymous No.18546924]

>>18545401

Pretty much. Ideal alternative for what this guy wants to do would be a well constructed miniature CNC. I have a 3'x2' 3 axis from shopbot and that thing is solid as a rock, maintenance free.

[Anonymous No.18546971]

>>18545485

You still haven't listed any actual practical usecases. You better be a fucking master at CAD to just bang out an organically-shaped piece of medical tech that's fitted perfectly. That alone is a fucking huge modelling project.

t. 3D printer and CNC operator who knows rapid prototyping projects takes a hell of lot longer than an hour from start to finish no matter how good you are

[Anonymous No.18547353]

>>18546971
The way to do it would be to automate as much of the pipeline as possible not hand model custom parts. Something like feeding scanned data into a grasshopper definition. Though if this is worth doing I’m sure someone already figured it out and like you said, with the tech where it is now, the time to print and quality of part makes these ideas dubious at best. This stuff does get better all the time though.

[Anonymous No.18547403]

>>18546829
What's a good laser sintering machine to buy?

[Anonymous No.18547532]

>>18547403
Matsuura is god tier. Markforged is neat for entry level. There’s quite a few though and it depends what you want to do.