Should You Replace Your Fortus 360mc or 400mc? Why Keeping Your T-Class System Might Be the Smarter Move As Fortus 360mc and Fortus 400mc 3D printers continue to age, and with Stratasys announcing end-of-life support, many manufacturers are asking the same question: Is it time to replace your T-Class system, or can you extend its…
A Fortus 400mc or 360mc drive block motor can be replaced on its own. You don’t need to buy an entire new filament drive assembly. Pivot AM Service sells the individual drive block motor and replaces it for owners who want a technician to do the work, which costs far less than replacing the full…
Cut Fortus Air Costs by Up to 90% with an On-Board Air Upgrade If you’re running a Fortus 900mc or F900 on shop air, you’re likely overspending, and over taxing your facility’s compressed air system in the process. Why? Because these machines require continuous airflow to create the vacuum that holds the foundation sheet in…
Pivot AM Service is sponsoring a good customer of ours: Agile Manufacturing, Inc.’s team Agile Racing in their quest to Race to Alaska, June 2026. Follow the team on Instagram @R2AK_Agile_Racing. The R2AK as it is known is a 750 mile race from Victoria, BC to Ketchikan, AK unassisted and no motors, only self propulsion…
How the NDAA Is Forcing Defense Contractors to Replace Chinese 3D Printers Earlier this year, a previous Pivot AM blog post discussed how the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now places restrictions on additive manufacturing equipment used by defense contractors. Under new provisions published in January, U.S. military organizations and Department of Defense (DoD)…
Pivot AM Service is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) happening this year in Reno, Nevada March 15th to 19th. The AMUG motto is For Users by Users and that is what Pivot is all about. We work with owners of 3D Systems and Stratasys machines like Fortus,…
Looking for an Alternative to the Formlabs Wash L and Cure L? Recently, we’ve seen an increase in engineers and manufacturers searching for alternatives to the Formlabs Wash L and Cure L post-processing stations, especially when they have multiple Formlabs machines producing parts. As resin 3D printing scales from prototyping to production, many teams start…
People serious about running a top notch 3d printing or production operation should always dry their 3d printing filament, both Stratasys and Pivot brand materials: new and partial used spools. Many companies use vacuum drying ovens, the vacuum speeds up the process. Some companies use the Fortus build chamber set to run Ultem or they…
Stratasys recommends a 24-month Preventative Maintenance (PM) overhaul for Fortus 360mc, 400mc, 380mc, and 450mc machines. The 24-month PM replaces known wear components, such as axis belts, blowers, fans, rail wear strips, and seals, to improve reliability, increase uptime, maintain part quality, and extend the life of the machine. This recommendation comes from Stratasys’s own…
Defense Procurement and Chinese Printers If you were thinking about procuring machines like Bambu, Qidi, Creality, or any number of the cheap machines out of China it might be time to think twice. The recently published National Defense Authorization Act in section 849 states that the department of defense and contractors to it are prohibited…