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 1303Steve
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 10:44 AM |
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3D printer
Hi
I could use one of these printers
http://youtu.be/ZboxMsSz5Aw
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 11:01 AM |
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Col, might see if they can copy the bird next door. 
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 12:09 PM |
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I remember seeing some of the early versions of these about 10 years ago, where they "squirted" resin out in 3 dimensions kind of like an inkjet
printer does.... the technology has obviously come a long way.
Would be interesting to know just how strong that wrench is !!!
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 03:52 PM |
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Wonder if that mean's that there will come a day were you could simply "reprint" say engine parts.
Differant powders and resins could be play'd around with.....
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 04:30 PM |
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They had them on display at the manufacturing expo in the Brisbane convention centre.
Couple grand and your set 
The idea is, they print out a 3d component out of a resin, such that you can use that resin component as a blank for a mould.
You put hte moulding material around this blank (dunno technical name :S), either sand or wateva, and when you pour in molten metal or wateva it
dissolves into a gas and dissipates, allowing the metal to take the shape of what the blank was.
THey gave out these awesome printed helical screws as examples, i will try to find it.
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 07:40 PM |
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I have heard allot motorsport teams and other R&D based industries are using them. They initially use them to make parts for trial fitting or the
wind tunnel, then if required to be built use them as a mould like Chris said.
that being said for low strength items (anything from vases, cahirs to car door handles) they could be a chepaer way to do low volume runs.
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| posted on July 13th, 2011 at 08:20 PM |
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We've got one at work......very handy and speeds up R&D time considerably. The parts produced are definately no good for structural purposes, but
for fit and function it's perfect and a great alernative to wasting $1000's on incorrect tooling. Ours was around $3k from memory, can get details
of models/prices if anyone's keen.
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| posted on July 21st, 2011 at 09:03 PM |
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My friend has one of these printers http://www.zmodel.com.au we make some awesome
stuff on it.
You can definitely use it to make casting patterns for engine parts, the finshed product is as hard as Acrylic sheet.
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| posted on July 22nd, 2011 at 07:25 AM |
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You guys that have access to one of these printers - can you help me out? I am doing some prototyping and the quote to make prototype parts is
astoundingly expensive. If I could make a test part on a printer and just fit it up to see how well it fits I would save a motza and get things done
heaps faster. I have the 3D cad files ready to go.
Can anyone help a brother out? Happy to what it costs - it sure would be cheaper than steel.
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| posted on July 22nd, 2011 at 10:39 AM |
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I'm thinking 50/50 tail lights?
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| posted on July 22nd, 2011 at 06:51 PM |
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I am increasingly living in the Sci Fi world I read about all those years ago.
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