[herschel113]

Using a selfmade (of 'Mendel90' design by Nophead) printer for quite some time now, it turns out extremely useful. The printer isn't even perfectly finished at all, but used in everyday work since it's first successful run. It is used for mostly mechanical parts for prototypes or small series production. As those parts are hidden inside devices, we don't care for their crude look. On the other hand, the usual plastics like ABS give perfectly robust and reliable mechanical parts like customized chassis holding other parts together, or customized levers or gears.

So for me, a 500€ and one week of work device turns out to be one of our most useful and most used tools in daily work. It saved several thousand € of external services and hundreds hours of communication tied to that. This way, the device can be called a professional tool.