Brian Welch (51) has just spent five weeks researching 3D printers, weighing up size, price and reviews and then spent £562 to buy the latest and greatest 3D printer on the market. When it arrived, he unpacked it and stood it on the dining room table, which wobbles because one leg is, annoyingly, shorter than the other three.
'The wobbly table has always irritated me,' he told reporters, admitting he should have sent it back to Argos years ago. 'The wobble made setting the 3D printer up a little tricky, but I got there in the end. I looked up some online designs and found one for a drink coaster which looked, well, round and about two millimetres thick,' he said.
Within two days, after fourteen failed attempts and approximately forty-two pounds worth of consumable material, Brian had created a startling, if very red, drink coaster that slips nicely under the shorter leg of the dining table and stops it wobbling.
Brian is convinced 3D printers are the future. 'No more ten-minute trips to B&Q to buy a replacement clip or a pack of wall plugs when all I need to do is fire up the printer, search for a suitable product design to download, press print and wait a day or three,' he said, packing the printer back into its box. 'I need the space on the table, so I'll just pop this in the attic until I need it,' he said. 'It's practically paid for itself,' he argued, waving his coffee mug around, looking for something to put it on.
'Looks like I need to order some mug mats,' he said.
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