/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1387001
I've tried farming out prints multiple times and I get very mixed results. It was okay in a pinch when I didn't have space or money to buy another printer, but I don't have that issue anymore. There's more than enough demand available for me to just continue expanding my print farm.
If you want a reasonable price, you end up waiting longer for the parts. Most of the hubs I've worked with are also pushing their printers to the absolute limit so you get fairly rough parts or lousy dimensional tolerances. 3dhubs has also gotten a lot worse in the past 8 months as they are trying to turn themselves into a Shapeways alternative instead of version of Uber for people with printers. They're shafting over their entire network of contractors and making things harder for customers. The one or two hubs I used to work with I will now have to get quotes from directly via e-mail instead.

But neither of them can provide parts in a way that helps me with demand. I had previously decided to only use external printing services if I want to stockpile certain parts that customers tend to order replacements of, or ones that have print settings that make them difficult to squeeze into a running job (different infill, different perimeters). But by this weekend I'll have a printer setup just for those types of parts, and it's and issue I could more directly solve by getting a more sophisticated slicer.

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