I wanted a planetarium for my daughters room but realized it just wasn't practical without spending big bucks. Even the crappy ones are kind of expensive.

If you're sintering it, it's got effectively none - you're fusing powder and the unfused powder goes back in the hopper.

That was the original thought... but turns out the powder thats was near the laser gets affected by the heat and if you pour it back in you get all sorts of additional material oddities in the next part. So you get get material properties for the first part but the scatter kills you on part #2.

Idk why you would make 3D printed heat sinks... probably because you have too much money but ok it works fine in any application where you dont need structural material properties. So if you want to turn a 10c heat sink into a $5 one you can or if you need some sort of fancy decorative shape for a trim price, great but the technology is decades out for practical and cost effective structural applications. You will see this stuff pop up here and there as peoples pet projects or to show how cutting edge some company is but its just not ready for prime time, and may never be.

I should caveat that all by saying that 3d printed parts like this should be great for fluid systems applications. Any time you need weird mixer geometries with internal cavities, probe holes, flow reducers and mixers 3D printed parts like this will work great.

Also probably why the strongest proponents of clamping down on Illegal immigration are legal Immigrants. When people from your ancestral region illegally move into the country without any regard for laws or legal processes it deligitimizes your perceived status in that country. It makes it harder for people who Immigrated legitimately to go about their daily business, without discrimination or prejudice. This is true if you are of a different skin color but also true even if you are say a Slav or other similar colored but slightly different complexion person.

That not new though, hasn't it essentially always been that way? Restaurant business is tough, margins are low, consumers are fickle, and the owner is exposed to all sorts of problems from high rent to high fuel prices and shitty economy. That hasen't seem to have stopped a ton of different new places from opening up in Seattle and many of them have crazy long lines, small portions and high prices.

All this extra scrutiny is brining to light a bunch of bad actors and policies that have been happening in the background without anyone noticing for probably many years. So in that sense there is hope that something good can come from something bad.

Preparing them for futures in customer service jobs :(

Really Like my Thermoworks Therma Pen https://www.thermoworks.com/Thermapen-Mk4 expensive as heck but works better than anything cheaper. The thermopop is a good starter item but the pen is way nicer.

Like the Dualit Toaster, BIFL but probably could buy a lifetime of toasters for what it costs

And AKG701 Headphones, im the second owner of them and Ive owned them for over 5 years and they still work and look great.

Remember to do the math on hours worked vs dollars paid. 40k raise isn't such a good deal if you are workings 60hrs vs 40hrs as week. The taxes make it worse and those extra hours are incremental more valuable.

Since the watches aren't your own maintenance and insurance would be profit areas not cost areas. The basic service would have a really low cost maybe even a loss leader but all the add ons are where the money is made.

Want to just rent out the watch to whoever? 5-10% fee to collect the money.

Then the rentee can specify a bunch of additional where you earn most of your money:

Want inspection on send out and on return? $10 & Shipping

Is there damage? If you find damage or defect then you quote them a repair bill, they are likely to accept and use your repair service, maybe even mandated.

Want insurance? Extra Fee + Verification of Renters insurance policy

Want to require cleaning on return? $20

Strap adjustment for renter? $10

So you might earn $3-5 a month on the rental itself but you would earn way more on the extras. Thats really were the money is in this model. Hire some high-school/community college kids to clean the watches and do basic low skill work and do the repairs and expensive stuff yourself.

I thought about it some more and maybe it could be, especially at the medium end. I dont think the original idea works because you have a lot of inventory/depreciation costs but if you modify it a bit it could.

People who love watches have lots of them laying around doing absolutely nothing, why not set up a service where people can rent out their own watches. You can take a cut off every transaction as a service fee think VRBO of watches.

The fees should be low of the individual transactions but the profit center should be services. For a set fee KB will catalogue your watch, photograph it and check for defect, then send it out to the customer. At the end of the transaction the renter will send you the watch back and you will once again catalogue it and check for damages and offer up repair services as needed (at reasonable but slightly high prices), maybe for an additional fee you could even store it (Amazon warehouse model). You should also offer some additional high profit fluff services like cleaning/polish/band adjustments etc.

Additionally you offer some sort of service where the renter can buy the watch, that might provide some social cover for the "I'm just renting it" problem.

You could could have site credits as well, to reduce your credit card fees, and because expired/lost credits are another great profit center, plus it can provide you additional cash buffer.

Your main costs will be the website and the fraud. I think you could probably contain the fraud since you will be inspecting the watches but the website costs might be unreasonably high.

This also solves the problem thelurkerawakens had as you don't hold the watch in inventory and if it dies you collect additional profit for repairs

I think kleinbl00 is asking if there is a market at the mid tier and I dont think there is much of one. There is some sort of market at the high end for people who want to pretend that they are richer than they actually are but its unclear what happens when you put a lot of wear and tear on stuff that probably is intended to live in a safe/vault for its entire life and be worn maybe 2-3 times a year. Maybe thats why its so expensive to rent them.

I hope that will make it "OK" career wise to not have facebook. I keep mine around just in case HR needs to "check" it as part of the hiring process. Id love to delete mine but im afraid that would negatively impact my ability to get a job or future "Social Score" (see china)