Macrofab Engineering Podcast

MEP EP#367: Vapor Wave ReflowNewsMay 4th, Bringing back the MacroFab meetup.Question From slack: Eric Smith How do you find new machines for the factory lines? Google Youtube Vendors Resellers Do you guys get mailed catalogs? Auctions yes. New machines no Do you go to conferences? I have been but never to purchase a machine   if you find something which could be potentially good, how do you evaluate it?  Is there something like a trial period with the manufacturer? Research is key. Evaluation is difficult to do.   Do you have an examples of machines you purchased but regret? Or examples of machines that helped a lot? Mimaki Printer Stencil printer Datron CNC Direct question I'd also be curious if you prefer to keep homogenous lines or do you prefer to optimize some lines to a particular task, i.e. Less precise but more throughput.    I can come up with good arguments either way.   It sounds like you all keep things pretty dynamic and reconfigure fairly often.