Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
No more rigging your own fixes, download the official part.Ash Hill (Tom's Hardware)
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No more rigging your own fixes, download the official part.Ash Hill (Tom's Hardware)
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Those parts would be anyway hard to sell.
For the company would be a struggle to have a distribution for spare parts and they would cost more than the product anyway. So they can reach the customer through 3d printing and make their product live longer with a minimal effort. More brand should act like this.
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in reply to Schmaker • • •That was my first thought, but it seems easier to run a few thousand more off the assembly line and make the original part than I'd think to have at least one person develop an adequate 3D part for an items that wasn't originally designed to be 3D printed.
Even for a relatively simple item like the trimmer guard shown, as someone who used those on their whole head for many years, they need to have decent rigidity coming from a number of angles so it cuts evenly, so someone needs to design a decent print, find what types of stock provide the right durability, flex, etc.
So it's doesn't sound that free for them or quick, but it's much cheaper than distribution for a bunch of random parts that may never get used.
I'm curious to see long term effects if this catches on. Will more original parts be made with 3D printing if they need to design prints anyway?
The big downside is even if this were available, I don't have a printer. I don't know anyone with one. I don't know where I could go to (?) rent time on one. So to me at the moment, this is as useful to me as no available replacement part! 😅
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in reply to marv99 • • •I check periodically, but I don't see anything within an hour of me. It's a shame, as I'm in the more populated part of my state, between the biggest and third biggest cities and I read about these places and feel I'd really enjoy them.
I have a milk frother for example, that burned out its stupidly non resetting thermal fuse because it got put on the base, something bumped the start button with nothing in and it burnt out. I'd love to have someone show me how to locate that bit and replace it, but I dunno where to go for that.
Same with the 3D printer. I can afford one, but at this stage of life I'd rather someone give me a hands on run through and give me some of their wisdom from experience than me playing around and getting frustrated until I get it right.
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in reply to PostaL • •I'm not saying it's not - actually both manufacturers and customers may benefit this way
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tofubl
in reply to PotatoLibre • • •Sounds too good not to be a greenwashing gimmick.
Acid_Burn
in reply to tofubl • • •They make money on blade replacement cartridges. If the base unit lasts longer they still make more money in the long run from consumables. A lot like electric toothbrushes.
Source: I have this shaver and buy replacement blades a few times a year.
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