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Entry level 3d printers are less than $100 now, so it's as cheap as drills and dremels. Compare to the cheapest decent desktop milling machines at $1000+... which also require an order of magnitude more CAD/production engineering knowledge to use.
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Not to mention also harder to make safe for consumer use... But design for repairability and durability + 3d printers everywhere + strategic use of 3d printable parts with open CAD = unreasonably leveraged resilience increase
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for the repair function yeah almost 100% of what I've printed though has been own designs the one time I wanted to print a spare part, couldn't get a cad model from the company (a whiteboard mounting bracket) so I just measured with callipers and made my own design
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