{"id":26853,"date":"2018-09-03T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=26853"},"modified":"2018-09-03T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T23:11:23","slug":"psa-3d-printing-is-not-always-the-cheapest-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=26853","title":{"rendered":"PSA- 3d printing is not always the cheapest option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>I own a 3d printer and have an ad on my local gumtree (Australian craigslist) and recently had someone ask me how much it would be for a full sized thor hammer.I ran the files through sli3r and saw that it would weigh a total of around 2.5kg and filament costs around $25 per kg through the brand I use. So about $62.5 in material alone.So I told him that i could 3d print the hammer, sand it down slightly so it&#8217;s ready for paint and put it togeather for him got about $110. I&#8217;d make some money, he&#8217;d get what he wants, win win.His first message back was &#8220;I could buy a finished one for 100, I thought 3d printing was cheap&#8221;So I told him that 3d printing isn&#8217;t just a cheap easy process and if he wanted the item for 100 he could just go bit the other one, something he then got mad at and then blocked me for.Tldr- just cos you can make anything, don&#8217;t mean you can make it cheap. https:\/\/ift.tt\/2Q42dKe<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I own a 3d printer and have an ad on my local gumtree (Australian craigslist) and recently had someone ask me how much it would be for a full sized thor hammer.I ran the files through sli3r and saw that it would weigh a total of around 2.5kg and filament costs around $25 per kg &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=26853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PSA- 3d printing is not always the cheapest option&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-26853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26854,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853\/revisions\/26854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}