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@@awsome14619 of course, but a prusa also has a big initial price and their support for maintenance is very iffy. Absolutely love printers though, whatever works works
@@ThePointlessBox_ Yes, but if you are buying a prusa to sell things, you can make than back fairly quickly. Also, their support teams are one of the best ones in the 3d printing markets. It is very hard to get ahold of those Chinese companies.
My friend makes a couple thousand a month off this printers. It’s all about scaling up, and having the right products. For over a year maybe two he reinvested back into to Etsy to buy more printers. He only works like an hour a day on it to switch out the prints and ship stuff out. It’s slow to start but can ramp up
You also have to account for the filament used, electricity used, cost for the space to use it, fees connected to eBay ads (or wherever you sell them), failed prints, etc…. All I’m saying is telling people you should make $250 a week per printer isn’t realistic…. Without a diverse set of desirable stuff to print, and a solid method to sell them, any hope to make money with a 3D printer is only an excuse to buy a 3D printer for your own prints, lol
@@macewindow149 Sure, but then what's the point of the video? Revenue without costs is an over-inflated picture of the idea of "selling stuff with a 3d printer". I'm sure if you told people it's $250 a week in revenue, minus $100 in materials/shipping costs, and $150 in time spent listing and shipping, it'd be a very different takeaway.
How do you factor your overhead cost? Have you measured which 3D printer uses more or less energy? Say for example if you have all your machines making the same thing which uses more energy. Could you do a breakdown of the overhead expenses?
There are meters you can put right on the power outlet to measure draw if you want to get very granular about the estimate. You also want to know average cost of the spools you are using, per g or per m. You're slicer should give you an estimate of how much material you'll be using. Then take the cost of your machines and all needed maintenance parts divided by an estimated machine life, and you have the basics of preparing a quote for each file you make. Multiply your quoted price by your failure rate to make sure you are covering hidden costs, too. 5% fail rate = x1.05
usually electricity isn't an issue with 1 or 2 printers, materials is about $25 a reel, that's about 1200 grams of filament per reel so Id say with those tray things hes selling i say 10 of those would be 1 reel (also depends on type of filament). If your selling 2 prints a day like the example he gave, counting in failures probably 2 to 3 reels a week. rough estimate
I said the profit was $20, not revenue. The way to calculate profit is by subtracting all of the expenses: material cost, electricity use, shipping supplies, shipping label cost, fees, etc. The profit was around $20 for a product I was selling for $39.99.
Unless your selling a part that take 6 hours to print but is worth $250 each to the customers. All depends on time, cost to print, and product sale price. Also largely depends on printer capabilities. If you can print pc, pekk, peek, nylon, and cf/gf variants of those your profits go up quickly. Which is easy even with an ender 3 with a couple mods, some experience, and a heated enclosure. PLA or PETG will get you absolutely no where other than for prototyping prior to using the real stuff. And if you get an industrial customer its even better.
The math is correct from a strick accounting perspective. But you only see $40.00 profit when you have 2 whole/competed units over 24 hours. Not 1.846 units in 24 hours.
The prints im currently making takes 1800 grams of pla, 40 hours print time and sells for 300$. Doing a run of 30 and then making an injection mold for the larger orders incoming. But you can make alot kf money if you get in the right position with a company that makes custom stuff.
It really doesnt add that much to the light bill, I run mine constantly and my bill still sticks around $150 really showed no change its just a few cents really
You'll need roughly 75 3d printers to make a living of this, because you forgot to count in taxes, a bookkeeper, the initial investment and spare parts. After your 20th printer you'll start wondering whether your house is big enough, and once you reach your 40th, you'll be spending day and night repairing them. Around the 50th customers will get angry, because you never respond to emails. And when you bought your 60th printer, you'll definitely start wondering whether 3d printing is even efficient, because surely there are more profitable ways to cast parts. 3d printing is just a prototyping tool, isn't it? So, why not directly buy something that is intended for mass production, and save yourself 3 years of your life.
"You start with one 3D printer, then". I though He was going to say, then you print another printer. Then you print expontntial amount of printers and you can have exponential production
You need to sell a more profitable product. I sell some 3d printed car parts (mainly aftermarket radio kits) that no one else makes and we can get 150-300$’per item which is usually a 5-10 hour print.
Also I’d be very curious to know how much it will cost on the energy bill. Would be awesome to have it powered on a reliable off grid set up and it all one day pays for itself.
Hollow out some of the more solid area's and print time can be reduced drastically. Also you can print several smaller products at once taking less time and making more money.
If you get the right contract it can do really well, i make £100 a day after costs on a contract i do and its 20mins work a day 23hr print, sadly only doing that contract 1 day a week but its a massive ongoing contract for years
dude, make a mold of that part out of silicone and cast in plastic. it’s very easy to do. and you can accelerate the plastic to cure in like 15 minutes. demold in about 30 minutes. and make another one immediately after that. you can make a ton of those in one day, vastly i. read your profit margins. And have a part that is much stronger than any 3d print could be. and you could tint it to match any color you would like.
does it need to be stronger? no. DOese ther eneed to be more work involved in making one of these? no, so why cast it? its mroe work even when its faster, mold need to be redone after not to many pulls. matrial is mroe expensiv, woulöd need to be a 2 part mold to save on material anyway so even mroe work. Printer is just one button and done, no more work
Btw make sure to factor in variable costs e.g filament and fixed cost e.g buying the 3d printer to work out profit. As profit is revenue - total cost, not the amount of money you are payed 👍
@chilepleasestop9118 Bruv what do u mean, im stating that profit is not how much u can sell something for its how much you sell it for MINUS variable cost (stuff like filament cost and electricity) * units sold(as the more you make the more filament and electricity u use) and minus total cost (stuff like the cost of buying 3d printers)maybe watch and listen to my comment telling me what to watch and listen to?@@chilepleasestop9118
It really all depends on what part you're making. If you can find some kind of specialty part that is no longer being manufactured and has a high demand then you might be able to get significantly more for the individual parts that you're selling
And spend his free time to work actively? He can print 30 at same time if he has 30 3D prints and in 13 hours have 30 ready models. If he do the mold, he would spend hours setting it up to print 30 models per day. If he let the print do the job he can keep a full time job also.
If that "Chillzone Station" you made is for what I think it's for, adding some silicone inserts into the 14mm and 18mm holes may be a good idea so things that get put in there done get stuck or leave residue that could normally be reused and it would help increase heat resistance as well, you'd probably have to adjust the hole sizes to account for the inserts
appreciate you giving a straight answer instead of just saying depends! the $1.50/hr is depressingly low. does that count for the electricity cost as well? b/c if not, that'll change the whole thing. also you said that's your profit on a certain piece. presumably that's your best piece. what about on your other prints?
My one printer made me about $300 a day when I had my business. I didn’t scale up because buying more printers is a ridiculous way of manufacturing a product. Maybe if you run a prototype printing farm it’s different
@@Massive-3D I designed a enclosure for a specific IOT chip related to a open-source radio thing. If you make something in a niche then it will sell, as long as it’s a good product. You just need to consider the workload. In retrospect I would recommend making a product that’s more expensive with lower demand. I just think a lot if UA-camrs are misleading. It’s not that rewarding printing nonstop and shipping orders all day, if the product is successful it’s better to outsource the manufacturing, and focusing on scaling the business.
@@pb6839how did you market that? I've been thinking about trying to find something small simple and niche to make. It honestly not worth trying to sell large items that take over a couple hours to print
Any way you could do a video for a beginner setup? I am looking at setting this up for my 15 year old. He is using all of this stuff in school and is interested in starting a business. Any advice would truly be appreciated.
Spent $300 on a file and filament for a life size Bender from Futurama. The sales price on him will be $2,500 and we will have him done in 2 weeks of printing, sanding, filling, painting, and gluing.
Anyone looking to make sales with 3D printing also needs to account for electricity & filament price in their region aswell as cost of repairs / replacement of the printer
I said the profit was $20, not revenue. The way to calculate profit is by subtracting all of the expenses: material cost, electricity use, shipping supplies, shipping label cost, fees, etc. The profit was around $20 for a product I was selling for $39.99.
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An obvious alternative is to sell smaller items at similar price points and print several at once. Large items at low retail cost are definitely not going to be profitable. Also, reinvesting into a newer and faster printer (preferably one that also fails less often) can help increase that hourly rate. But yeah, it's almost never worth quitting the day job.
Green grinder that can be closed and slid within itself in both hands - 2 card sized panels, inside has hinges on a slider rail, you figure out the grinding mechanism.
I'm NEW to 3D printing so maybe I missed something with the equation. 🤔 Your profit margin is ($20 /$13hrs)... but that only works if you're printing them, throwing them in a box & shipping them out. But what about "Drying time"?? Maybe I got the wrong one, but my UV light takes like HOURS to 100% "cure" just SMALL prints and completely remove ALL tackiness & waxy-feel - till it feels like the "hard plastic" we're used to in kids toys. i assume that's the "feel" we're going for with these prints? I don't know - I'm still experimenting. But with drying time included I would have thought it was closer to 15-16hrs per print? ... or no? Either way... How the hell are you drying 5 or 6 big prints like that at once?? 😧 I would imagine you'd need a whole UV-DRYING ROOM filled with racks & lights -- OMG the electric bill would be OFF THE CHARTS!!! But again - maybe I'm wrong. 🤷♂️ Can you clarify? Thx
@@rodrigoalister9593 - Ok, that makes sense now. So filament printing doesn't need to be cured?? ... Interesting. 🤔 Might be good to have BOTH for different types of projects then huh? 😉 Thank you
@@spectreoftruth for sure, I'm buying the two types these past days, will receive in one or two weeks. So some projects will be done in the resin print and others in the FDM print.
@@rodrigoalister9593 - See... Mannn... That's what you call (LIVING THE LIFE)!! 😂 I've just started learning Blender... coming from DECADES on "Lightwave 3D" - which was pretty decent and was still beyond Blender.. (at first), but Blender blows it out of the water now so I had to take that "L" and jump ship! 🏊♀🛟⚓ lol.. Blender is such a swiss-army knife kind of program with SOOOOOO many tools & options, that it will take AT LEAST a year or so to get super-proficient on it to where I don't have to look up a tutorial for everything I wanna do. THEN I can start REALLY cranking on the 3D printing!! Which 3D software & slicer are you using to create your objects? 🤔
PPE, pls wear the proper PPE when you are in an area with a 3d printer running. The VOC's produced by the printers filaments/resins/etc are harmful and cancer causing, as well as a variety of other health problems. A respirator (depending on what chemicals, proper eye wear, etc). For those out there not Hazmat or HazWhopper certified, pls get certified before handling chemicals. Asthma, lung failure, cancer, bad blood circulation (which can lead to clots, amputation, stroke, death) are the most common negative side effects of chemical exposure. Carbon filters do not eliminate all VOC's, they eliminate odors and some VOC's fumes. Safety 1st people.
PLA and PETg don't produce harmful toxins, and PLA hardly produces odor. It looks like his product is a station for items that shouldn't be near hazardous material.
@@DEADEYESTUDIO Yes PLA fil fumes are dangerous, even at low levels, though resin has a higher danger risk level than PLA fil yet the danger still exists. The highest point of PLA fil danger is when in processing/use when not in use and simply being stored the danger is extremely low in comparison. You can have a roll of filament not in use sitting in a room and the risk is extremely low while having exposed resin (say you fill a cup up and leave it there) the risk is high. People tend to hold the belief that "if I can't smell it I'm good" this of course is untrue. VOC's produced from almost every material known to man and with many man made chemicals like resin or PLA fil, they hold greater risk to health than most other things. Long term exposure to both PLA and Resin will, not could, not maybe, will cause irreversible harm to the human body. Resin is more dangerous to use then fil overall when all threat and care factors are combined. Both however, when used with the proper PPE and safety practice can carry extremely low risk factors and greatly decrease odds of harm. Whenever using either, make sure the room is well ventilated, your wearing a respirator, safety goggles and gloves, if you don't have a lab coat use a rain poncho with long arm sleeves. This protects from spills to the arms, torso (when using resin) make sure the filters on your respirator are changed out as directed and if you ever get any on you immediately wash the area with dish soap or chemical preventative soap if you have access to it. Any exhaust system you set up to filter fumes outside of your home should go through an exhaust pipe 3 feet higher than the highest point of your home. You don't want to cause harm to your neighbors (this is with both fil and resin). Your neighbors get injured and they link it to you, you get sued (yes chemical injuries can be linked to specific chemicals).
3D printing is great for prototyping or extremely low production which I would consider 10 and under. The opposite is plastic injection molding for high production runs. But why does no one talk about in between solutions for low production runs? A lot of non mechanical prints I see could be printed, cleaned up and molded for resin casting production runs. A lot of resins can be de-molded and handled after 15 minutes and be set on shelves to finish curing. So if you have simpler prints look into resin casting as a simple way to up your production.
out of curiosity have you done over all cost. do have the breakdown with utilities increase, maintenance and filaments? how long before you break even after your 3d print farm investment?
What about expenses? Cost of filament, energy, replacement parts etc? If you really want to do it by the book you'd have to consider depreciation on your printer as well. But that can cut both ways, can be used as a tax write off too.
good solution, used to make small production runs this way over a decade ago. it's move involved but you can do allot more parts. cast them out of urethane that has the appropriate material properties for your product.
sell an upgraded chill zone that comes with tiny jars, cones, a grinder, tray, and a clipper lighter. Just maybe a small quantity at first to see how it sells
You have to calculate in the price of the 3D-printer and divide that on the print jobs you are running. The number will be lower as you use the printer more. Then you also need to calculate the accessories (materials) used to print out your products. Lastly, you also need to take tax into consideration ... and as you said yourself ... the ideal number is if there is always someone ready to buy whatever the printer spits out. That is not necessarily true either. On a general basis, the profit pr item doesn't need to be that high, as long as you are able to compensate with volume. If you are making 5 USD pr item, and sell 100K of them, that is a good amount of money.
How about marketing and energy costs? The better thing to do is to use the 3D printer to create a winning product/s and then go to a manufacturer to create a mold and then mass produce at a way cheaper price than that slow ass 3D machine.
You need to include all the costs, Material costs, Electricity, rent, your wage, insurance, the cost of the store like Etsy, ads on Google, FB, IG, X, etc.
thats with regular plastic? the real money is in industrial grade plastics, the carbon stuff. with a 1kg spool you can make 5-10 cogs and sell each of them for around the same price as 1 spool costed you, its a good return of investment
This doesn’t factor the price of filament though, does it? Unless you have a lot of printers running a custom product it really only seems to fund itself
The answer to this question is: $0.00, anything more is a bonus! That's realistic. It could even be negative, if you owe on your printer! What you make, is calculated by SO MANY variables ...
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"I only have 24 hrs/day" you gotta up those numbers buddy
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Those are rookie numbers
He did up those numbers basically getting 1 day per printer
this has honestly been my mindset since i worked out my 3d printer lol
@@jimbob7424 Yeah. I can do it for 40 hours a day.
Step 1: Buy a bunch of printers
Step 2: make TikTok’s and UA-cam’s in an attempt to make the money back
My etsy shop was around $80k in revenue before I decided to make a tiktok & youtube channel.
This is the way.
@@MysticMesh3D how did you get your Etsy shop up and running? I don't mean making an account, I mean in general. What would you recommend? :)
@@MysticMesh3D wth did you sell? lol
@@sociallyresponsiblexenomor7608Custom made BadDragon 😏
I appreciate that he had a very logical answer instead of telling you some nonsense.
It is important to note, those 13 hours of print time, is you doing nothing. Other than shipping items out, you are making passive income.
Yeah. Just need to start the print, assemble the product when the print is finished, pack the order, and repeat
You also need to take into account how finicky printers can be
@@ThePointlessBox_ True but if you have a reliable machine like a Prusa, it isn't a problem.
@@awsome14619 of course, but a prusa also has a big initial price and their support for maintenance is very iffy. Absolutely love printers though, whatever works works
@@ThePointlessBox_ Yes, but if you are buying a prusa to sell things, you can make than back fairly quickly. Also, their support teams are one of the best ones in the 3d printing markets. It is very hard to get ahold of those Chinese companies.
My friend makes a couple thousand a month off this printers. It’s all about scaling up, and having the right products. For over a year maybe two he reinvested back into to Etsy to buy more printers. He only works like an hour a day on it to switch out the prints and ship stuff out. It’s slow to start but can ramp up
Step 1 for starting a print farm for profit: Don't.
You also have to account for the filament used, electricity used, cost for the space to use it, fees connected to eBay ads (or wherever you sell them), failed prints, etc…. All I’m saying is telling people you should make $250 a week per printer isn’t realistic…. Without a diverse set of desirable stuff to print, and a solid method to sell them, any hope to make money with a 3D printer is only an excuse to buy a 3D printer for your own prints, lol
Well, no shit he's talking about the gross profit, not the actual. That varies way too much to even estimate
@@macewindow149 Then that's not profit, that's income. He's also not factoring in the time to sell/ship each item.
@@Darthus And all of that should be comically obvious to anyone trying to sell anything
@@macewindow149 Sure, but then what's the point of the video? Revenue without costs is an over-inflated picture of the idea of "selling stuff with a 3d printer". I'm sure if you told people it's $250 a week in revenue, minus $100 in materials/shipping costs, and $150 in time spent listing and shipping, it'd be a very different takeaway.
How do you factor your overhead cost? Have you measured which 3D printer uses more or less energy? Say for example if you have all your machines making the same thing which uses more energy. Could you do a breakdown of the overhead expenses?
Since he mentioned “profit” I assume that’s taken into consideration
There are meters you can put right on the power outlet to measure draw if you want to get very granular about the estimate. You also want to know average cost of the spools you are using, per g or per m. You're slicer should give you an estimate of how much material you'll be using. Then take the cost of your machines and all needed maintenance parts divided by an estimated machine life, and you have the basics of preparing a quote for each file you make. Multiply your quoted price by your failure rate to make sure you are covering hidden costs, too. 5% fail rate = x1.05
printers be pretty energy effecient, i think my enders and neptunes end up using like 2cents worth of energy per hour
He didn't take anything into account exept for how much it sells for and how long it took him and a dash of how long it takes to sell.
Rule of thumb is 10 times the cost of filament.
How about your cost for materials and electricity
What I was thinking
usually electricity isn't an issue with 1 or 2 printers, materials is about $25 a reel, that's about 1200 grams of filament per reel so Id say with those tray things hes selling i say 10 of those would be 1 reel (also depends on type of filament). If your selling 2 prints a day like the example he gave, counting in failures probably 2 to 3 reels a week. rough estimate
@@tactical_shit9562 that’s good to know!
I said the profit was $20, not revenue. The way to calculate profit is by subtracting all of the expenses: material cost, electricity use, shipping supplies, shipping label cost, fees, etc.
The profit was around $20 for a product I was selling for $39.99.
@@MysticMesh3Dthey don't listen. I think they are mesmerized by the ginger. I know I am.
Unless your selling a part that take 6 hours to print but is worth $250 each to the customers. All depends on time, cost to print, and product sale price. Also largely depends on printer capabilities. If you can print pc, pekk, peek, nylon, and cf/gf variants of those your profits go up quickly. Which is easy even with an ender 3 with a couple mods, some experience, and a heated enclosure. PLA or PETG will get you absolutely no where other than for prototyping prior to using the real stuff. And if you get an industrial customer its even better.
Dang I got 17 broken printers I need to fix!
good luck
The math is correct from a strick accounting perspective. But you only see $40.00 profit when you have 2 whole/competed units over 24 hours.
Not 1.846 units in 24 hours.
The prints im currently making takes 1800 grams of pla, 40 hours print time and sells for 300$. Doing a run of 30 and then making an injection mold for the larger orders incoming. But you can make alot kf money if you get in the right position with a company that makes custom stuff.
How expensive is the light bill running all those printers what kind of electrical setup does it take?
It really doesnt add that much to the light bill, I run mine constantly and my bill still sticks around $150 really showed no change its just a few cents really
@@holy_lettuceThat's a huge depending on where you are.
@@printingwithpeek4897a few cents is not huge
@MaxQuagmire-br6in that’s wild, I freaking wish 😭
@MaxQuagmire-br6in yeah see where I live $150 may as well be $1.50 lol
You'll need roughly 75 3d printers to make a living of this, because you forgot to count in taxes, a bookkeeper, the initial investment and spare parts. After your 20th printer you'll start wondering whether your house is big enough, and once you reach your 40th, you'll be spending day and night repairing them. Around the 50th customers will get angry, because you never respond to emails. And when you bought your 60th printer, you'll definitely start wondering whether 3d printing is even efficient, because surely there are more profitable ways to cast parts. 3d printing is just a prototyping tool, isn't it? So, why not directly buy something that is intended for mass production, and save yourself 3 years of your life.
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Printing doesn’t always goes as planned. Sometimes you will face quality issues with your printer
"You start with one 3D printer, then". I though He was going to say, then you print another printer. Then you print expontntial amount of printers and you can have exponential production
I meeeeaaan? 🤷♂️😂
Don't forget about energy pull. 8 printers 24 hours per day can rack up that electricity bill
You need to sell a more profitable product. I sell some 3d printed car parts (mainly aftermarket radio kits) that no one else makes and we can get 150-300$’per item which is usually a 5-10 hour print.
Also I’d be very curious to know how much it will cost on the energy bill. Would be awesome to have it powered on a reliable off grid set up and it all one day pays for itself.
One full day of using my printer takes up about 30 cents only lol
Bro lmao its just a 3d printer buddy
always the answer, "it depends"
Hollow out some of the more solid area's and print time can be reduced drastically. Also you can print several smaller products at once taking less time and making more money.
How is this man getting 26 hours worth of printing done in 24? THATS the money making idea right there.
If you get the right contract it can do really well, i make £100 a day after costs on a contract i do and its 20mins work a day 23hr print, sadly only doing that contract 1 day a week but its a massive ongoing contract for years
Sure pal
@@DatHondaBoi223 ?
@@calvingreen1215 sure pal
dude, make a mold of that part out of silicone and cast in plastic. it’s very easy to do. and you can accelerate the plastic to cure in like 15 minutes. demold in about 30 minutes. and make another one immediately after that. you can make a ton of those in one day, vastly i. read your profit margins. And have a part that is much stronger than any 3d print could be. and you could tint it to match any color you would like.
Very smart idea
does it need to be stronger? no.
DOese ther eneed to be more work involved in making one of these? no, so why cast it? its mroe work even when its faster, mold need to be redone after not to many pulls. matrial is mroe expensiv, woulöd need to be a 2 part mold to save on material anyway so even mroe work.
Printer is just one button and done, no more work
The resin itself is expensive, a roll of filament is about $20.
That’s a good way. But with 3D printing, you can be at your regular job and it still prints.
Ye
That's also an unfinished and relatively inexpensive piece. Imagine the profit from custom painted pieces
Btw make sure to factor in variable costs e.g filament and fixed cost e.g buying the 3d printer to work out profit. As profit is revenue - total cost, not the amount of money you are payed 👍
Profit = revenue - expenses
He did that with the 20 dollar cost
BTW - make sure you watch and listen to the videos before making a comment.
@chilepleasestop9118 Bruv what do u mean, im stating that profit is not how much u can sell something for its how much you sell it for MINUS variable cost (stuff like filament cost and electricity) * units sold(as the more you make the more filament and electricity u use) and minus total cost (stuff like the cost of buying 3d printers)maybe watch and listen to my comment telling me what to watch and listen to?@@chilepleasestop9118
It really all depends on what part you're making. If you can find some kind of specialty part that is no longer being manufactured and has a high demand then you might be able to get significantly more for the individual parts that you're selling
You need to print higher-margin products. My best product rn makes me 13 an hour. Also helps to have a faster printer.
What printer would you recommend?
Bro just called me dumb in 20 different ways
Edit: bc I can’t do math that’s why 😢
What about power usage maintenance and materials cost?
Good lord. What do you think the word profit means?
3d printers are for custome items you should just mold that if you are selling that many
And spend his free time to work actively? He can print 30 at same time if he has 30 3D prints and in 13 hours have 30 ready models. If he do the mold, he would spend hours setting it up to print 30 models per day.
If he let the print do the job he can keep a full time job also.
Never thought Sinbad’s son would get into 3D printing.
Lollll
That’s lil Fat Joe what you talkin bout
you guys are messed up 😂
I loved him in two and a half men
I’m looking to sell stuff in my school. Any tips? My paying method is 1m of filament is €1? How do you do yours?
If that "Chillzone Station" you made is for what I think it's for, adding some silicone inserts into the 14mm and 18mm holes may be a good idea so things that get put in there done get stuck or leave residue that could normally be reused and it would help increase heat resistance as well, you'd probably have to adjust the hole sizes to account for the inserts
appreciate you giving a straight answer instead of just saying depends! the $1.50/hr is depressingly low. does that count for the electricity cost as well? b/c if not, that'll change the whole thing.
also you said that's your profit on a certain piece. presumably that's your best piece. what about on your other prints?
My one printer made me about $300 a day when I had my business. I didn’t scale up because buying more printers is a ridiculous way of manufacturing a product. Maybe if you run a prototype printing farm it’s different
what did you sell man
@@Massive-3D I designed a enclosure for a specific IOT chip related to a open-source radio thing. If you make something in a niche then it will sell, as long as it’s a good product. You just need to consider the workload. In retrospect I would recommend making a product that’s more expensive with lower demand. I just think a lot if UA-camrs are misleading. It’s not that rewarding printing nonstop and shipping orders all day, if the product is successful it’s better to outsource the manufacturing, and focusing on scaling the business.
@@pb6839how did you market that? I've been thinking about trying to find something small simple and niche to make. It honestly not worth trying to sell large items that take over a couple hours to print
Any way you could do a video for a beginner setup? I am looking at setting this up for my 15 year old. He is using all of this stuff in school and is interested in starting a business.
Any advice would truly be appreciated.
My brain hurts. So you're saying your parents buy you the filament and pay for your electricity?
What is a printer you recommend to start with in a 300-100$ budget
How much electricity do you use? My friend has one and he was printing for a week straight and got a huge electric bill.
what is the electricity cost?
Spent $300 on a file and filament for a life size Bender from Futurama. The sales price on him will be $2,500 and we will have him done in 2 weeks of printing, sanding, filling, painting, and gluing.
Where did you buy your printers and materials?
Did you include power consumption and filiment cost in to your profit number?
What about the energy/electricity cost then factoring maintenance and supplies?
Anyone looking to make sales with 3D printing also needs to account for electricity & filament price in their region aswell as cost of repairs / replacement of the printer
I mean the cost to ship, package, electricity consume it all factors so it's probably way less.
I said the profit was $20, not revenue. The way to calculate profit is by subtracting all of the expenses: material cost, electricity use, shipping supplies, shipping label cost, fees, etc.
The profit was around $20 for a product I was selling for $39.99.
Do you design all of your products or do you buy licenses for other STLs as well? I'm new, have 1 printer and a basic understanding of Blender, lol.
I design all of my own products! My catalog has over 300+ different products and I license my catalog to other 3D printing shops through Patreon.com/MysticMesh3D
@@MysticMesh3D Oh that's awesome! Thanks for the reply I'll go check it out👍
An obvious alternative is to sell smaller items at similar price points and print several at once. Large items at low retail cost are definitely not going to be profitable. Also, reinvesting into a newer and faster printer (preferably one that also fails less often) can help increase that hourly rate. But yeah, it's almost never worth quitting the day job.
This is awesome man keep grinding before you know it you will have a warehouse full of printers doing big contracts
How much does your cost go into it weekly for mats and all the others stuff
Green grinder that can be closed and slid within itself in both hands - 2 card sized panels, inside has hinges on a slider rail, you figure out the grinding mechanism.
Where do you sell? Which website?
How much has you utility bills increase by since you started printing.
What is a good low cost 3d printer to start with?
I'm NEW to 3D printing so maybe I missed something with the equation. 🤔 Your profit margin is ($20 /$13hrs)... but that only works if you're printing them, throwing them in a box & shipping them out. But what about "Drying time"?? Maybe I got the wrong one, but my UV light takes like HOURS to 100% "cure" just SMALL prints and completely remove ALL tackiness & waxy-feel - till it feels like the "hard plastic" we're used to in kids toys. i assume that's the "feel" we're going for with these prints? I don't know - I'm still experimenting. But with drying time included I would have thought it was closer to 15-16hrs per print? ... or no? Either way... How the hell are you drying 5 or 6 big prints like that at once?? 😧 I would imagine you'd need a whole UV-DRYING ROOM filled with racks & lights -- OMG the electric bill would be OFF THE CHARTS!!! But again - maybe I'm wrong. 🤷♂️ Can you clarify? Thx
He is not printing SLA, he is printing in FDM print. The one you are mentioning is other type of 3d print.
@@rodrigoalister9593 - Ok, that makes sense now. So filament printing doesn't need to be cured?? ... Interesting. 🤔 Might be good to have BOTH for different types of projects then huh? 😉 Thank you
@@spectreoftruth for sure, I'm buying the two types these past days, will receive in one or two weeks. So some projects will be done in the resin print and others in the FDM print.
@@rodrigoalister9593 - See... Mannn... That's what you call (LIVING THE LIFE)!! 😂 I've just started learning Blender... coming from DECADES on "Lightwave 3D" - which was pretty decent and was still beyond Blender.. (at first), but Blender blows it out of the water now so I had to take that "L" and jump ship! 🏊♀🛟⚓ lol.. Blender is such a swiss-army knife kind of program with SOOOOOO many tools & options, that it will take AT LEAST a year or so to get super-proficient on it to where I don't have to look up a tutorial for everything I wanna do. THEN I can start REALLY cranking on the 3D printing!! Which 3D software & slicer are you using to create your objects? 🤔
Are you designing your own prints or do you have other print files you’re selling as well?
PPE, pls wear the proper PPE when you are in an area with a 3d printer running. The VOC's produced by the printers filaments/resins/etc are harmful and cancer causing, as well as a variety of other health problems.
A respirator (depending on what chemicals, proper eye wear, etc).
For those out there not Hazmat or HazWhopper certified, pls get certified before handling chemicals.
Asthma, lung failure, cancer, bad blood circulation (which can lead to clots, amputation, stroke, death) are the most common negative side effects of chemical exposure.
Carbon filters do not eliminate all VOC's, they eliminate odors and some VOC's fumes.
Safety 1st people.
PLA and PETg don't produce harmful toxins, and PLA hardly produces odor. It looks like his product is a station for items that shouldn't be near hazardous material.
Resin and ABS produces toxins, but pla is completely FINE
Yeah but is this true if you’re using PLA filament tho? I recall hearing that’s a lot safer to use in printers and all
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Yes PLA fil fumes are dangerous, even at low levels, though resin has a higher danger risk level than PLA fil yet the danger still exists.
The highest point of PLA fil danger is when in processing/use when not in use and simply being stored the danger is extremely low in comparison. You can have a roll of filament not in use sitting in a room and the risk is extremely low while having exposed resin (say you fill a cup up and leave it there) the risk is high.
People tend to hold the belief that "if I can't smell it I'm good" this of course is untrue. VOC's produced from almost every material known to man and with many man made chemicals like resin or PLA fil, they hold greater risk to health than most other things.
Long term exposure to both PLA and Resin will, not could, not maybe, will cause irreversible harm to the human body.
Resin is more dangerous to use then fil overall when all threat and care factors are combined. Both however, when used with the proper PPE and safety practice can carry extremely low risk factors and greatly decrease odds of harm.
Whenever using either, make sure the room is well ventilated, your wearing a respirator, safety goggles and gloves, if you don't have a lab coat use a rain poncho with long arm sleeves. This protects from spills to the arms, torso (when using resin) make sure the filters on your respirator are changed out as directed and if you ever get any on you immediately wash the area with dish soap or chemical preventative soap if you have access to it.
Any exhaust system you set up to filter fumes outside of your home should go through an exhaust pipe 3 feet higher than the highest point of your home. You don't want to cause harm to your neighbors (this is with both fil and resin). Your neighbors get injured and they link it to you, you get sued (yes chemical injuries can be linked to specific chemicals).
@@DEADEYESTUDIO yes it is true PLA fil is harmful
3D printing is great for prototyping or extremely low production which I would consider 10 and under.
The opposite is plastic injection molding for high production runs.
But why does no one talk about in between solutions for low production runs? A lot of non mechanical prints I see could be printed, cleaned up and molded for resin casting production runs. A lot of resins can be de-molded and handled after 15 minutes and be set on shelves to finish curing.
So if you have simpler prints look into resin casting as a simple way to up your production.
Got to incorporate all of the electricity you're using that offsets your costs and the price of the material you're using
It's not that much. It probably adds a couple dollars a month to his bill running that many
I want to whore out my Ender 3 but I don't have any cool designs to sell yet. Any ideas?
same
What if you made a mold for your product instead? 3D print the original, create the mold, and cut your production time by a significant margin.
Whats a realistic cash amount to start everything from the beginning
What is the best 3 d printer.. and also 2d printer .. can you suggest me????
Get into doing custom work for factories. You can make more.
You look like that Sam Briton guy from the government who got caught stealing luggage.
That's who I thought he was before I clicked on this lmao
What part of this equation illustrates the e-bill?
What’s the overhead cost and start up cost. You need to pay for printer, filament, electricity and repairs?
Go learn what profit is.
out of curiosity have you done over all cost. do have the breakdown with utilities increase, maintenance and filaments? how long before you break even after your 3d print farm investment?
You can't calculate profit without knowing cost or revenue. So, perhaps you should ask him what his costs are.
What about expenses? Cost of filament, energy, replacement parts etc? If you really want to do it by the book you'd have to consider depreciation on your printer as well. But that can cut both ways, can be used as a tax write off too.
How much electricity does it use per day?
Keep keeping on brother! Love the content
Any tips on how to know what to charge for a print? like, do you charge a certain amount per hour? per size? different for each type of print?
Have the FBI checked your browsing history yet?
what about making silicon mold and cast them ?
good solution, used to make small production runs this way over a decade ago. it's move involved but you can do allot more parts. cast them out of urethane that has the appropriate material properties for your product.
sell an upgraded chill zone that comes with tiny jars, cones, a grinder, tray, and a clipper lighter. Just maybe a small quantity at first to see how it sells
What type of printer would you start with if you started over?
How can I design something that people want
You have to calculate in the price of the 3D-printer and divide that on the print jobs you are running. The number will be lower as you use the printer more. Then you also need to calculate the accessories (materials) used to print out your products. Lastly, you also need to take tax into consideration ... and as you said yourself ... the ideal number is if there is always someone ready to buy whatever the printer spits out. That is not necessarily true either. On a general basis, the profit pr item doesn't need to be that high, as long as you are able to compensate with volume. If you are making 5 USD pr item, and sell 100K of them, that is a good amount of money.
How about marketing and energy costs? The better thing to do is to use the 3D printer to create a winning product/s and then go to a manufacturer to create a mold and then mass produce at a way cheaper price than that slow ass 3D machine.
Yes, invest 50k in molds and 100k in inventory what a great idea. 🤡
Then you need to go back to run up front cost along with maintenance material cost and electricity
Heh, I made a design that generates $30 per 2g of material lol
You need to include all the costs, Material costs, Electricity, rent, your wage, insurance, the cost of the store like Etsy, ads on Google, FB, IG, X, etc.
How do you print that huge thing in 13 hours?
thats with regular plastic? the real money is in industrial grade plastics, the carbon stuff. with a 1kg spool you can make 5-10 cogs and sell each of them for around the same price as 1 spool costed you, its a good return of investment
Don’t forget to factor in what it costs per printer in electric and your time in labor. All this matters for any business.
Dude. Stop stealing luggage.
Are you 3D modeling these products yourself?
Yes
This doesn’t factor the price of filament though, does it? Unless you have a lot of printers running a custom product it really only seems to fund itself
Bro can you pour cement into the mold?
What is that thing you printed?
What is your power bill?
where do you sell them
Minus filament cost and electricity cost to run the printer 24/7
Did you design this yourself?
Yeah. I license my catalog of over 200+ designs through Patreon.com/3DPrintFarming
Wait, those are cool stations! Where can I buy one??
The answer to this question is: $0.00, anything more is a bonus! That's realistic. It could even be negative, if you owe on your printer! What you make, is calculated by SO MANY variables ...
Out of all your printers which one do you like the most?