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    What is our responsibility to the next generation of manufacturing?

    The main issue I see these days is most people don't want the knowledge, experience or understanding they just want the answer and the rewards. Sadly the only way to get the answer and the rewards without the knowledge, experience and understanding is to stand on other people who do have it
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    Yet another gerstner clone

    That's is awesome, do you have any in construction pictures ?
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    If the build plate is crooked it will do this as it scans to check you have the correct plate in ie cool plate not engineered plate for PLA . The starting off the plate thing seems to be related to nozzle flow and I got around it by just having it zero before each plate . Add's a minute but...
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    We also do a lot of Organizational stuff like bases for our Royal's so they stay evenly spaced and easy to find them
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    Yup, I am not that guy who posts their stuff all over the internet, if you want to ask a specific question then feel free, if you want me to start posting random pics of how I keep my lights on and gas in my tank ... yeah no thanks we aint a Disney ride. Here is a picture of "not a part" which...
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    That is 100% what is does and what I also wanted. Its sounds weird but I love walking up to the rack and seeing empty spools and the printer still going after auto changing to next spool.
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    Yup
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    Nope I have seen nothing, as at today I have run 597 ( 1 KG ) roles of PLA through them with zero issues or down time. I schedule plates and just keep feeding them in. I have done minimal color changes and most of the AMS units have 4 rolls of the same color which lets me run the roles empty and...
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    Why do you say that they released their code yeah ? As far as their business practice .. open source code and GitHub etc is an entirely different discussion and one 99% of people don't actually understand or use. It gets talked up a d lot, usually by people looking to make a point not by people...
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    Very close to buying my first printer

    I went from Prusa to Bambu and the Bambu's have been awesome. Have a bank of 5 running straight out of the box for several months with zero issues . The detection features and software is nice and the AMS allows 4 rolls to be fitted and kept dry. Multiplate is awesome so you can schedule days in...
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    Google Drive Desktop

    We use drop box and have no issues with compliance - https://www.dropbox.com/business/trust/compliance/certifications-compliance I would not use google drive if you are worried about security
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    Feedback on the HAAS PreSetter

    Nothing, same as I do about it now 99% of the time
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    Feedback on the HAAS PreSetter

    Thanks for the feedback
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    Feedback on the HAAS PreSetter

    Yeah I have been told that the HAAS is a rebadge of a Zoller but it may have been a Koma either way it is a rebadge not made by HAAS although it does integrate with HAAS Control easily and out of the box
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    Feedback on the HAAS PreSetter

    Has anyone used or own the HAAS Tool PreSetter (HTS 400 ) ? Looking for any feedback as it seems like an easy way to set and load tools between multiple machines and get more table space without the setter.
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    Any opinions on Esprit for turning and 5 axis milling these days. How pricey is it?

    If you want to see what they can offer don't give them anything till they are on site and then give them the file and watch how long it takes them to setup and what they have to do to get a program out. They all use a lot of smoke and mirrors on pre defined environments that have years of tweaks...
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    ERP - JobBoss^2 vs. ProShop vs. Something Actually Good?

    With the amount of shops that seem to say this you would think that putting together a group, all put in the $10k they wasted and get a full time software guy for a year at $120k and let him build away with some upworkers etc. The reason most ERP's are described at bloated or complicated or...
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    ERP - JobBoss^2 vs. ProShop vs. Something Actually Good?

    Might help if you detail what your shop does, how your shop does it and what it expects from Software
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    Buying a shop?

    If it was a solid business requiring little effort the owner wouldn't be selling it ... His offer at $50k buy in is just to make you think its a good idea. $50k buy in on a business turning over not much more than over head under the idea he wants to keep profit low to mimise tax is complete BS...
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    Shop Start-up Funding

    That is so true its funny and I am that old guy lol

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