The Making Bug...
...it afflicts more or less all of us with the need to tinker and improve... to make stuff... often with no regard for the effort spent. They do let you make things from scratch, using raw materials, but it takes a lot of time and money to build and keep running a printer capable of printing visually perfect parts, within 0.05 of spec. This page is just a way to pay for th
is hobbyist tinker toy.
_ Printing time is reduced to evenings and weekends. A day job with odd finishing hours means turnaround time is hard to judge.
_ PETG is a fairly glossy plastic, strong but a bit shiny for "tactical" parts. On the good side, it does take acrylic paint very well. PETG is glycol modified PET and so part of the PET family. Please recycle as any other household plastic and avoid dumping it into landfill.
_ PLA is a plastic with a matte finish, strong but brittle, more suited for prototyping and parts not exposed to elements. Made from plants, it's easily compostable at the end of life.
