/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1368861
>The guy who makes the Caliburn nerf gun said it's cheaper for him to use a bunch of 3D Printers than to have the parts injection molded at the scale he's currently producing
That's because I'm not selling enough of them over the course of a year to justify the cost of having molds made. Which gets way more expensive considering each product involves 20ish parts.

And customers clearly all want something slightly different so shifting to mass-production wouldn't be a net benefit to my sales anyways.

I expect to have sold 700 of them by the 1-year point in roughly June. The only room for me to expand my operation is to buy more tools to make hardware production more efficient, and to buy more printers to keep up with demand.

The biggest surprise at present it accessory orders. Those sell like mad and have almost no associated expenses compared to the blasters so my profit margin has jumped a lot in the past two months.