3d printing
10-21-2016, 10:28 PM
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3d printing
I've made myself some brake ducts in the virtual, digital sense:
I would like to print one to see if it fits. However the online quotes are between $86 and $150 per each before shipping to print them in abs. That is rapidly approaching buy my own damn printer money. Anybody have a cheaper solution they can point me towards?
I am looking into local maker spaces but haven't actually visited one yet; rates were $10/hour for printer usage. I don't know how long these will take to print. They are roughly 100mmx85mm square, 75mm tall.
I would like to print one to see if it fits. However the online quotes are between $86 and $150 per each before shipping to print them in abs. That is rapidly approaching buy my own damn printer money. Anybody have a cheaper solution they can point me towards?
I am looking into local maker spaces but haven't actually visited one yet; rates were $10/hour for printer usage. I don't know how long these will take to print. They are roughly 100mmx85mm square, 75mm tall.
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10-22-2016, 06:00 PM
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See if your main city library has 3D printers. We have them at many libraries and the costs to print are minimal.
A little segway and a true story - a friend of mine bought one of the first commercially available powder and liquid activator 3D printers which used HP printer heads to dispense activator on to of very thin layers of power. Paid $60,000 for it. The plan was to make software that would do most of the math and allow people to use common 3D apps to make objects and his driver convert them into printable solid models. Because he never really took seriously on the task - new printers came out before he completed the software and they were half the cost. So he decided that instead - he will manufacture powder to build 3D models with - by this time he figured out his own compound based on baking powder that worked just as well, but was 1/100 of the cost. Before he could commercialize it - industry went to $1000 printers using plastic. So none of the hassle of powder and all of the benefits of much stronger product.
A little segway and a true story - a friend of mine bought one of the first commercially available powder and liquid activator 3D printers which used HP printer heads to dispense activator on to of very thin layers of power. Paid $60,000 for it. The plan was to make software that would do most of the math and allow people to use common 3D apps to make objects and his driver convert them into printable solid models. Because he never really took seriously on the task - new printers came out before he completed the software and they were half the cost. So he decided that instead - he will manufacture powder to build 3D models with - by this time he figured out his own compound based on baking powder that worked just as well, but was 1/100 of the cost. Before he could commercialize it - industry went to $1000 printers using plastic. So none of the hassle of powder and all of the benefits of much stronger product.
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