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  • It’s extremely expensive to produce things with tight tolerances. Cheap 3D printers have gotten away with it by making things “good enough”. Which why you got this the other way around;

    In short, instead of an arbitrary number like 0.3mm that has no meaning to the user, they tell the user to turn this knob 1/4 of a turn. An instruction the user can follow.

    0.3mm is easy to measure with the right tool like digital indicator. On the other hand, quarter turn on a knob might adjust 0.3mm on one bolt, but 0.5mm on another.

    Also as mentioned, ABL, cheap and can be DIYed. Cheap / printed parts can warped over time, bolts can shaken loose, etc. ABL just put these out of the equation.

















  • IMO, this is largely due to TV shows have moved away from episodic, monster-of-the-week style, shows. Like Buffy, etc. The best we have recently are anthology style like Black Mirror. Honestly, I’d love it if Stranger Things made it monster-of-the-week rather than a whole season story arc.