3D Printer! Amazing!

Jim Wahl · 07-25-2012, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Dennis P Chapman

Thought you would like it.

Yes! Thanks Dennis. This is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time. I wonder how much one of those cost?

Jim

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David Lee · 07-25-2012, 09:24 PM

cheap and small parts less thand a grand, great and big parts 100K+.

One of my clients uses one for proto typing cases for Apple and other computer companies. Much cheaper than the old days of making injection molds

Larry Merk · 07-25-2012, 10:03 PM

And you don't even need to buy one if you live in the right area.

A year or two ago Kitplanes Magazine (an airplane magazine) had an article about a machine shop in the San Francisco bay area that is open to the public. Besides lathes, milling machines, and other normal machine shop tools, they had one of those 3D printers connected to a PC with AutoCAD. Bring in your CAD drawing of a part, or draw it there, and 3D print the part. All you pay is time and material costs. Pretty slick and inexpensive way to prototype a part.

Tony Curcio · 07-25-2012, 11:19 PM

Work has begun to try printing artificial human organs, such as kidneys. The cartridge is filled with cloned cells. Early attempts did not hold up well. I read somewhere (probably Smithsonian Magazine) that future prototypes will be injected onto a sort of scaffold, to stabilize the structure while the layers are being printed.

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David Lee VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,168 Likes: 487 Liked 346 Times in 126 Posts	Re: 3D Printer! Amazing! cheap and small parts less thand a grand, great and big parts 100K+. One of my clients uses one for proto typing cases for Apple and other computer companies. Much cheaper than the old days of making injection molds

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Larry Merk Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Kennewick, WA Posts: 213 Likes: 48 Liked 314 Times in 113 Posts	Re: 3D Printer! Amazing! And you don't even need to buy one if you live in the right area. A year or two ago Kitplanes Magazine (an airplane magazine) had an article about a machine shop in the San Francisco bay area that is open to the public. Besides lathes, milling machines, and other normal machine shop tools, they had one of those 3D printers connected to a PC with AutoCAD. Bring in your CAD drawing of a part, or draw it there, and 3D print the part. All you pay is time and material costs. Pretty slick and inexpensive way to prototype a part. __________________ Larry Merk

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Tony Curcio Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: West Chester, PA Posts: 271 Likes: 1 Liked 4 Times in 1 Post	Re: 3D Printer! Amazing! Work has begun to try printing artificial human organs, such as kidneys. The cartridge is filled with cloned cells. Early attempts did not hold up well. I read somewhere (probably Smithsonian Magazine) that future prototypes will be injected onto a sort of scaffold, to stabilize the structure while the layers are being printed. __________________ Tony Curcio 1860 STK