Comments on: 3D printers and Fab labs http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/03/21/3d-printers-and-fab-labs/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Wed, 23 May 2012 02:03:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: aaron http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/03/21/3d-printers-and-fab-labs/#comment-745 aaron Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:22:08 +0000 /?p=196#comment-745 i was at a motorcycle dynamics seminar with tony foale in vancouver a few weeks back. in attendance were a few engineers workiing in the motorcycle and aftermarket fields (norton and motobits are the ones i recall right now, there were a few others....) in one on my discussions over a lunch break, rapid prototypers came up. what blew my mind? apparently there is one that prints a female image. in a glue and sand material. full size with thermal expansion factors for the desired final material. pour in molten metal, and go! you don't just get a plastic piece for display and fit use, or making a female sand mould by hand, you get a sandcast mould ready to go. wow..... i was at a motorcycle dynamics seminar with tony foale in vancouver a few weeks back. in attendance were a few engineers workiing in the motorcycle and aftermarket fields (norton and motobits are the ones i recall right now, there were a few others….) in one on my discussions over a lunch break, rapid prototypers came up. what blew my mind? apparently there is one that prints a female image. in a glue and sand material. full size with thermal expansion factors for the desired final material. pour in molten metal, and go!

you don’t just get a plastic piece for display and fit use, or making a female sand mould by hand, you get a sandcast mould ready to go. wow…..

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