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Now I've joined the Multi-M2 Club

You lucky duck!

5 now?

insta wrote:5 now?

Oh oh ... now you done it ... its on!

I'm installing my 8th production machine today (only 5 are M2s), so I think I'm ok

I like BIG BOXES and I can not lie!

I have to ask how do you guys/gals find work for these machines?

jprochnow wrote:I have to ask how do you guys/gals find work for these machines?

Oh, I have plenty of work for them to do. I wouldn't order that many without having them be able to pay their own way. I'm not printing other people's projects though, I design my own tools and jigs specific to a few niche hobbies I have and then sell them online. That makes things a lot simpler than printing for hire because you just dial your parts in one time and then the work is done, you're not tweaking CAD models and print settings for each job.

jprochnow wrote:I have to ask how do you guys/gals find work for these machines?

Mine is much the same way that a homebrewer will sell his beer to sustain the purchase of equipment.

I really like all the changes that have been made since I bought my first M2 just one year ago. Seems like every mod I made comes stock now, even mods I was only thinking about making but never got around to it. The hot end redesign is especially nice, replacing a lot of printed plastic with metal parts, adding the wire junction box, using the bracket to insure the motor can not rotate if the nozzle knocks a part and just having less overall mass on the print head. The wiring is much cleaner now too, no more big loops of wire hanging off to the side or rubbing the filament tube. I see the hot plate has a strain relief on the power cable too, and that wobbly Z-knob was fixed. Even the printed parts used on the machine seem higher resolution than they were before. Five stars!