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Planning for International trade problems........

chollagardens
Since this virus has hit China there has been some talk about about shortages because the U.S. is so dependent on Chinese trade. I believe there will be some problems but I wonder if some problems could be less because of the new 3D printer technology. It seems that much of what we have is some sort of plastic now days. Is anyone making plans to make parts to repair machinery?
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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    No particular plan, but hopefully this opens America's eyes to the consequences of buying huge amounts of stuff from foreign countries....
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  • spasmcreeksrun
    unreal to find out how many medicines are made in CHINEE.......seems to compromise our national security
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  • Warbirds

    My 3D printer is running great- but I can tell you for certain- the virus is impacting Chinese production of things & I know this from 3D printing groups on FB that I am in.

    Below is a screenshot from a 3D printer group, the printer model is an “Eryone Thinker S”

    The guy “Aaron” is Chinese and works for the company.

    FWIW I can make quite a bit with a 3D printer but there are certainly limitations to a home size model.


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  • chollagardens
    Warbirds posted;
    .................FWIW I can make quite a bit with a 3D printer but there are certainly limitations to a home size model.

    I believe even the home size models would be useful. If the supply is very small and the demand is great then the price of parts would go way up. Kind of like what happened to the price of 22 ammo. I remember when my mother's Mercedes had a broken part +/- 20 years ago. That part of that expensive car was plastic. If there was no replacement part it would have been a $40,000 piece of junk.

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  • serf
     It's the tip of the iceberg and The central banks are going to scrabble to eliminate debt now after creating a ton of it with no
     no way to service it with no growth and kicking the can down the road is at a dead end.
    President Trump is already aiming to cut Disability social security big time! It's just the beginning of a collapse in my opinion.
                                                    serf
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