Re: 2465 Fan Collet Thingy
Tom Gardner
Yes and no!
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Yes: you can get solid brass 3D printed items; I have one such sign outside my front door. 3D printed gold, silver and platinum is also commercially important - in the jewellery trade. No: the printed medium is wax, and the brass item is manufactured by the age-old lost wax casting technique. I'm sure there are many suppliers available, but one is https://www.shapeways.com/materials/brass Ditto https://www.shapeways.com/materials which shows bronze, gold, silver, platinum. Their aluminium is made with selective laser sintering, and I've seen titanium used that way. You can also get 3D printed paper. When combined with an inkjet printer, it enables architects' models to be produced for display in showrooms etc. And there are other materials, e.g. ceramic. Additive manufacturing is undergoing a "pre-cambian explosion", much a microprocessors did between 1975 and 1990.
On 10/11/19 14:22, Chuck Harris wrote:
Hi Tom,
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