Gotta love the timing of the latest Stratasys announcement, on the heels of my blog post yesterday, that Stratasys Spare part and Labor pricing will increase 3%. An excerpt here: Dear Valued Customer, … Despite our best efforts in managing rising costs in labor, logistics and materials, we need to extend a marginal increase on…
Does anyone else find it ironic or disingenuous that Stratasys is now offering refurbished Fortus 360mc and 400mc machines? For two years the OEM was telling their customers these platforms would no longer be serviced and were being declared End of Life, ostensibly to garner trade ins and sell a new “upgraded” machine. Now the…
A customer wanted to try a new SLA material but didn’t want to bear the expense of a full fill of a Resin Delivery Module (RDM) aka Material Delivery Module (MDM) in a 3D Systems iPro 8000 SLA machine. Customer had a spare RDM so they hired Pivot to modify the RDM from a full…
Our customer has two ProCure 750s, aka UV Ovens for post curing Stereolithography (SLA) parts, and the UV Ovens were taking up too much lab space. Customer Solution: they hired Pivot AM Service to make the ProCure 705 UV Ovens stackable. Pivot AM Service used our fabrication skills to cut the units in half, tig…
One of our Field Service Engineers left Pella, IA on a Monday morning, drove five hours away then got to work fixing a bunch of Fortus 400mc and Fortus 900mc FDM 3D printers. Our customer gave us a laundry list of problems many minor issues, some larger issues like a 900mc Y axis linear bearing…
Pivot AM Service is offering Maintenance on: Fortus 360mc, 400mc, 900mc for another 5 years, until January 2029. Don’t End the life, Extend the Life. Refurbished Fortus 360mc, 400mc, 900mc machines available – add capacity for less than an upgrade and keep your trade in thereby doubling capacity.
Pivot AM Service is now offering Time and Materials service for the F-Series 3d Printers from Stratasys. Stratasys F Series 3d printers include: F-170, F-270 and F-370 or as some like to call them F123 printers or F17090, F270 and F370.
The real story behind Stratasys’ end of life notice for the Fortus 360mc and Fortus 400mc. Stratasys has a policy on their web site that states they will support a machine for seven years past the last sale date which for the 360MC and 400MC was February 18, 2016, more than seven years ago. Stratasys…
Post processing 3D printed parts, especially stereolithography aka SLA parts, is often an afterthought when buying a production SLA 3d printer from 3D Systems: Projet 6000, Projet 7000, SLA 750, Pro-X 800, Pro-X 950, Stratasys: Neo 450 or Neo 800 or a fleet of FormLabs SLA Form 3L machines . Some customers start with Rubbermaid…