Some 3D printing advice to start this section

tommylight  have you built a Voron Trident? I am curious on how the Trident and the 2.4 compare as far as performance.

Trident is easier to build and tune, it moves the bed up/down, while 2.4 moves the whole gantry up/down.
As for quality, might be a bit lower due to screw induced wobbling, but i would not worry about it, it is minuscule difference.
As for speed, Trident can be faster if tuned correctly, again not much difference and it will be limited by the hot end anyway, not by the machine.
Go for it !

thanks for the info tommylight. Right now I am in the information gathering stage that way if the US government wants to
get belligerent with tariffs I have a means of dealing with it.

it's been a good little tool for odds and ends. i have mostly used it for guards and covers. i had a thought about thread inserts and have seen the brass ones you heat and press into your parts but thought you might be able to infill around your holes and run a tap into it then use a Heli coil insert. the cheap one's work just as good as the Heli coil brand. i thought it might be a little more cost effective than the ones you press in with heat.

i might try this out on a housing for the THCAD so I can mount it to the plasma cutter when i get that far

  Usually when I 3D print stuff I will make a pocket for a nut to either be pressed in or slid in place. That way if I have
to scrap the part I can recover the metal nut back out of it. I do understand though that their are times when that
simply isn't possible.