# The Home Manufacturing Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-home-manufacturing-thread/940021>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 15, 2021, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-home-manufacturing-thread/940021 "2021-04-15T01:14:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-home-manufacturing-thread/940021/21 "2021-04-18T00:06:33Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> > [@PoppaSan](#):
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> > Is your home zoned for light manufacturing? Especially if you try to run a business and make it onsite. Or do you need to have a shop in the correct area?
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> Making prototypes on a 3d printer is not ‘light manufacturing’. If you are worried about your own situation, by all means knock yourself out and make sure you are completely compliant with local zoning laws and regulations before settinng up your desktop printer.

The reason I asked:

> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> if I were setting up a small home business to make custom parts for people, $5,000 is nothing.
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> In a space as small as a bedroom you could build out a complete design/prototyping/small manufacturing shop.

Doesn’t sound like a hobby shop to me. More like a custom manufacturing facility. Heck you even called it that.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-home-manufacturing-thread/940021/22 "2021-05-30T17:39:55Z")

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Slight update - I had a slight windfall and so have sprung for a [SnapMaker 2.0](https://shop.snapmaker.com/collections/snapmaker-2-0/products/snapmaker-2-0-modular-3-in-1-3d-printers) rather than a 3018, should arrive next week.

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**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-home-manufacturing-thread/940021/23 "2021-05-30T20:29:37Z")

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Interesting. Let us know how that works. I’d be worried that for etching and cutting that single-arm design might not be rigid enough. But I’ve never used one of those, so I really don’t know. It’s certainly a clean and elegant-looking design.

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