Some kind of paintball 3D printing/design collective forming?

[The Inflicted]

Anyone know what this is all about?

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=454443322329333

[Rainmaker]

This looks pretty incredible! SLS printing? I recognize most of those names in Paintball Printing, even had conversations with several. Interested to see more details!

[The Inflicted]

I wonder if they will have some kind of unified storefront too.

[Ecapnation]

This just feels like a bunch of dudes teaming up against me for what I already do and have been offering for 3years.

[ReconSWS]

https://www.mcarterbrown.com/forum/c...ner#post120604

[Rainmaker]

This just feels like a bunch of dudes teaming up against me for what I already do and have been offering for 3years.

I mean, i'm not gonna lie, i feel a little threatened by it. but i cant do SLS, soooo...

[Ecapnation]

I mean, i'm not gonna lie, i feel a little threatened by it. but i cant do SLS, soooo...

I've been running and selling SLS and MJF parts for three years. I think dudes think I'm making tons of money doing this..... News flash no I'm not

[JonM]

That's pretty much why I stopped printing for profit pretty early on. What I made over time eventually paid for the printer, but my time was always a loss. If anyone wants my stuff now, I either let Shapeways handle all the legwork, or else I just let people use the files for free. Besides, I never really felt like FDM prints were up to my standards when it came to finished products.

[fullofpaint]

PBDNA has an SLS printer coming too.

At least one part of the industry has some grassroots stuff going on haha.

[Ecapnation]

PBDNA has an SLS printer coming too.

At least one part of the industry has some grassroots stuff going on haha.

Ballsy move spending $10k on a machine.....

[boarder2k7]

Ballsy move spending $10k on a machine.....

It's closer to $30k with supporting hardware. The Fuse 1 is best if you use the sift parts cleaner alongside it to reclaim unused powder safely and effectively.

It's "cheap"..... for SLS


I have friends working for Formlabs that I hope can run me a couple prints though

[ReconSWS]

"Go in to what this is without revealing too much of what it is" - 1 hour podcast I found on the subject.

Fineee, I'll watch it, be back in an hour guys! Hopefully with some answers..

[ReconSWS]

Ok I got my answer 5 minutes in lmao.

[ReconSWS]

My take (opinion) : Group of mod makers teaming up with some SLS company from China to batch print for larger kits or quantities. They will be remote printing with a company. I assume the company will be setting up a storefront HUB similar to how Makerbot has Thingiverse but instead of download, you just buy and ship an SLS print (or I assume they'd do this to have some unified storefront). OR. Just one of them is getting a machine, and it's a smaller gig than I think.

[ReconSWS]

Confirmed, they will be using a boutique service, in... called it... in China..anada... Canada..

[Ecapnation]

Ooof.

From experience, the Chinese SLS and MJF prints aren't up to snuff with who I use (shapeways). I had a bunch of tolerance issues very early on with them and I say them because it's multiple places.