Get yourself to one of them Chinese fellas on the streets that can bend your name out of wire. You'll never know the difference
wow
No wonder the price of metals gone up. Look at all that wastage.
Get yourself to one of them Chinese fellas on the streets that can bend your name out of wire. You'll never know the difference
My ex attended a course on medical equipment and they had a magic machine that would do a 3D scan of a component and then magically replicate it out of whatever material you wanted! They made a copy of a human skull out of titanium......
If you want to see something amazing, look up stereolythography machines
Being able to grow complex shapes out of a gooey liquid is quite impressive....
The one I saw being done was a chess piece, normal size castle with a spiral staircase inside compelte with opening windows.....all done in one
session....Mental!
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Originally posted by tegwin
If you want to see something amazing, look up stereolythography machines
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I think I saw one of those at a University once. Fires a laser into the liquid that makes it set in a specific place? They were making the components for mock up single cylinder engines as a demo - amazing!!
tegwin - 1/6/08 at 03:05 PMYup thats the stuff!
The really expensive ones with very accurate lasers are able to create "pixels" of only a few microns...
You can even create sliding assemblies in one go...
Mr Whippy - 1/6/08 at 04:46 PMlost wax casting would have been a tad more economical
Danozeman - 1/6/08 at 04:52 PMVery impressive but very wastefull.
I could hear chinese syle langauge in the background. No wonder its the chinese forcing the metal price up if they waste that much.
skodaman - 1/6/08 at 05:16 PMI'm sure Aldi will be knocking out a similar machine for around £50 soon.
skodaman - 1/6/08 at 05:25 PM"I could hear chinese syle langauge in the background."
I'm pretty sure the language was Japanese.
Simon - 2/6/08 at 01:22 AMquote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
lost wax casting would have been a tad more economical
I agree, but then I'm biased - it's what I do
ATB
Simon
JoelP - 2/6/08 at 06:39 AMthat must be a viral advert from the manufacturer.