/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2622316
>vary in quality
Yeah, also whether it's a good value definitely is all over the spectrum. I could definitely imagine waking up with a hangover and realizing I spent $3 grand on a standard edition hole punch or bought $200 worth of non-water-resistant cable glands which you couldn't even find on aliexpress because they're vintage accessories.
I literally just made all the walls thicker and switched up the edge blends for chamfers. If this actually works there's no monetary equivalent, I'd basically be the IRL supervillain from a comic book.
seriously though, a lot of manufacturers do intentionally make their parts difficult to reverse-engineer. I bought an endplate for a phoenix contact terminal block thinking that I'd just CAD it up, but they put the pins in such bizarre places I took one look at it and gave up. Knockoffs existed before FDM of course, but probably not for individual use and I never would have noticed that stuff before.