This the trick for those little items you can never find....I would love to have one in my garage. Check it out www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=944641
Very cool. No end to the plastic parts that you could make. The wrench even works, just the way the machine spits it out! Everyone should have one of these!
Wow - How about a V8Buick group purchase to reproduce all the plastic and metal parts we need? Maybe JW can keep it in his shop. :idea2:
OK. It's amazing but for plastic parts. Why run a plastic model for the machinest? Just bring him the original part your duplicating. He's going to have to make it anyways.
For plastic parts though, it makes them for you. For metal parts, I'm almost thinking that you could load those coordinates from the laser scanner that scanned the obsolete piece to a CNC machine. o No:
I just looked at one of these 3D printers today for our company. What a great machine. The reason why you would make it in plastic first is because the cost is very, very low since the material is inexpensive and the process is fairly quick, it would take about 1.5 hours to make that steam valve part and the cost would be about $8. The part is accurate within .003" and you can test fit it before you spend the $ to have it machined. We currently send out files to have parts prototyped in plastic and the cost is 10x what it would cost if we had that machine. I have spent at least 5K on proto "stereo lithography" parts for something that I am currently working on, those same parts would have cost around $300 with that machine. The 3D printer shown in that clip is about 40K, we are looking at a smaller one that is 14K and can make parts that will fit in a 6"x6"x8" area.
You can test fit the plastic part, then feed the info into a CNC machine and make it out of metal, or they said somthing about using it for casting a part. Must be some kind of plastic that they can use in the machine that they can use for that like a "lost wax" type of cast.
I was trippin that he had ponch from chips advertizing a cloning device...freaky! :shock: Na, but on a serious note that unreal! I always thought technology was running out of new ideas... guess I was sadly mistaken.
The Big Three have had that engineering for years now, it is just now getting to where it is practical for some smaller companies to buy. When they make models of new cars they use that machine to make the parts first to make sure everything will fit together and also in the area that they want it,i.e like a fuel injection for a engine etc..etc.. But as the Guy said once you have that you can easily have it made by a CNC Machine, I also think that you can get the program for a CNC Machine to make it once it is made and works! Now who here has the $$$$$$$ to buy one? The scanner is not that bad but the actual machine that makes the plastic part is the real killer in cost!!! :ball: Don a.k.a. 65WILDKAT
