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If this site wasn't the Mos Eisley of Mac forums, admins would have stepped in by now.

Than the forum that got its definition of "democratic" from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

This place went to shit after JDW and Cameron Kaiser left. I also miss Uniserver (Charles), despite being a crazy bastard.

…but I prefer that over the pre-2021 state of things.

Is there even a backup of that?

I can’t speak to their level of knowledge if they were unable to successfully print that object. It is fairly rudimentary for high quality modern FDM printers. Was this recent or years ago?
Also to clarify an ABS print of this object was not tested.
Just want to make sure that’s understood here.
The company being unable to produce the part doesn’t equate to the part failing in testing in the iMac. It’s a very important distinction that’s being explained here.
Testing of an ABS printed part was not performed.

You keep talking about your expert in this field. Can you Seriosuly tell me with all of this effort, machinery and treatment needed you’re somehow going to do all this for less then the $100 just to buy one that’s a near perfect replica?

Your grammar is really terrible.
Who ever said this is about getting the least costly solution? Nobody ever implied that this was about cost at any point.
Odd you got that impression somehow.

So I gather you haven't finished drawing yet then.

Your grammar is really terrible.
Who ever said this is about getting the least costly solution? Nobody ever implied that this was about cost at any point.
Odd you got that impression somehow.

I am a manufacturing engineer by day.

Plastic FDM printing is pretty much the absolute lowest quality method to manufacture anything. It's appeal is that it is cheap and easy with a very low barrier to entry and enables just about anyone to make things that they couldn't otherwise.

The amount of man hours, equipment overhead, knowledge and experience that goes into properly reverse engineering something and taking that to proper manufacture is significant. When injection molds need to be designed and manufactured, the costs can very quickly run into the tens of thousands and increase exponentially as the complexity of the product increases.

If MacEffects wants to preserve his intellectual property rights over what he's done, then he is answerable to no-one and is 100% within his rights to do so, and I fully support his position.

…I can’t believe this is still going on.

You continued a discussion and then expressed amazement that the discussion has continued. Extremely bizarre.

Also as a manufacturing engineer why did you say FDM is the absolute lowest quality possible method to manufacture anything when this is objectively false.
Is it because you actually aren't knowledgeable, or are you stating something factually incorrect for the purpose of emphasis or something

FDM printing with ABS produces extremely strong objects. we are discussing a structural element in a computer, not a decorative ornament. For the application being discussed FDM printing with ABS is one of a few optimal methods of manufacture in fact.

Can you explain why you argued your point from the foundation of a falsehood?

@Cory5412 help us out here, this thread isn't helping anyone at this point.

Think the thread was fine until @derekdavidkent showed up with his holier than thou premise.

Also as a manufacturing engineer why did you say FDM is the absolute lowest quality possible method to manufacture anything when this is objectively false.
Is it because you actually aren't knowledgeable, or are you stating something factually incorrect for the purpose of emphasis or something

FDM printing with ABS produces extremely strong objects. we are discussing a structural element in a computer, not a decorative ornament. For the application being discussed FDM printing with ABS is one of a few optimal methods of manufacture in fact.

Can you explain why you argued your point from the foundation of a falsehood?