1st Gen Tundra Phone Mount solutions?

I'm interested. The video has me watching stuff on 3D printing but the last thing I need right now is another hobby that's gonna cost $1k in stuff to start up. LMK what they say

 

To add some 3D printing perspective...

My guess is that this would be a ~24+ hour print, which a lot of time for opportunity for imperfections... or complete and total failure. It's not an ideal design for 3D printing as it would require significant supports during printing (also opportunity for error), and large prints like this have tendency to warp during printing due to material contraction across the object during cooling (larger print = more contraction... this would be my biggest concern). I'm also guessing sanding/cleanup may be required on your part to get it to your level of expectations.

As such the $68 quote doesn't sound unreasonable for 3D printing/prototyping. Commercial printing (i.e. printing for profit) can be in the $1.50-$2/hr with some fee for setup and/or materials, so that doesn't sound that far off of what I would expect considering the risks with this design.

As much as I'm always up for a challenge and would probably try printing something like this for myself, as a hobbyist at 3D printing I'd be hesitant to take this on for someone else due to the high level of risk for failure/disappointment. I'd hate to make a bad impression to anyone on the forum.

 

24 hours!?

I know very little about 3d printing but just looking at the video I figured you set the thing up and it spits this out in like 60 minutes lol.

On Amazon they show these $200 units with like 12" monster figurines with vascular details in the arms and stuff next to them for advertising. If this thing would take 24 hours that stuff in the ads must take 3 days

 

I have to assume this depends entirely on the size of the printer. Aren't people printing whole buildings?

 

Yup, it take a LONG time to print. I had no idea either, until i had a friend with a printer make some stuff for me. I figured it would be a few minutes or so, but nope. I had to come back a few days later to pick my parts up from him.

 

Haha, yeah.... there's lots of different kinds of 3D printing. Houses are printed of semi-fluid concrete in layers a couple inches at a time, several inches wide, and at feet per minute. A plastics filament FDE printer prints at layer heights of .1 to .2mm (.2 is considered "coarse"), widths of .4mm, and speeds of mm per second (depending on material type... most of the more difficult stuff is around 20mm/s... or less). There are also variables for wall thicknesses, infill patterns and percentages (the inside is usually hollow to some percentage with structural infill printed for support). It takes WAAAYYY longer than you want it to when you're waiting for a print. And when it prints for 18+ hours and then fails.... UGH.

 

Ah that makes sense. I have a friend who prints large sculpture installations, but I guess I don't know what kind of material he uses. He's made them for around town and his yard is filled with them. They're at least human-sized. But I kind of think they might be concrete.

 

Good enough for me! (But definitely not "rugged")