blargh513

@blargh513@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a person who probably spends WAY too much time fixing my old worn out crap because I’m a cheap fuck, I never got into 3d printing.

  The reality is that for fixing things, I am rarely at a point where I would need to design and create an entirely new thing. Buying commodity crap is almost always faster and cheaper. I’m not saying that 3d printing should be outlawed and certainly not that we should not care. We should all care deeply, even if this doesn’t impact you directly (as is the case with me).

  The only point I would make is that 3d printing is not likely to make a meaingful dent profit made from people like me who fix a lot of junk. It’s a lot easier and faster to just hit the hardware store for a box of fasteners, some wood, PVC, whatever to cobble something up. For stuff like auto repair (which I do way too much of), I don’t think I could print the stuff I would need. Most of the crap I would need would have to be precisely measured for fit, waterproof, heat proof, vibration proof and will often have a handful of separate parts therein. I just replaced a wiring harness for my mass air flow sensor. It has four wires and a wide plastic connector with the four pin terminals inside and a part that slides forward to lock it in place. I bought one for 9 bucks, it came the next day. If I had to design something like that, I’d need to either get the schematic for the original or do a 3d scan, maybe someone already did and it exists, maybe they did not. Then I print the main part, print the second part for the locking slider, put em together, hope I don’t crack one in the process. Then I need to buy the individual pin terminals that are pre wired or make new ones. Can’t print wires that I’m aware of.

  Killing off 3d printing as a way to boost profits of selling crap to those of us who fix our own stuff seems like it would be a drop in the damn ocean. I presume it’s just another form of social control. It won’t stop people printing out ghost guns, I doubt it would stop hobbyists and inventors from doing stuff. People have been making shit long before 3d printers.

  The whole thing just seems massively stupid, I cannot understand what they would hope for. It almost seems like this would backfire and people would start figuring out some awful thing they could 3d print and use against people like this.

  Caltrops?