<VV> FW: 3 D PRINTER

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:45 AM 7/8/2011, Bob Dunahugh wrote:


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>  Need a Rare Corvair part. A friend has one but doesn't want to 
> sell it. Barrow his and print your own.     Bob Dunahugh
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If you can afford this printer (price is just a tad bit astonishing), 
you'd not be bothered by paying the price for that scarce 
part.    ;)    Leno's Garage (website) had a segment about this 3-D 
printer and how it does what it does.   Maybe he can afford one...


Find somebody who does have one and pay/convince him to repro the 
borrowed scarce part maybe?   How many scarce Corvair parts are made 
of plastic?   IMHO such a printer would be more useful for designing 
and fabricating new designs from paper or computer screen to see just 
how they would stack up in a real world analysis.   Or, fabricate a 
mold form to make castings or injection formings maybe.

There are techniques for applying metallic coatings onto a plastic 
part to allow you to chrome plate it (car makers have done this for 
years), so such a printer could be handy for reproducing badges or 
knobs or emblems or bezels (like those hard-to-come-by AC bezels) 
etc. so this printer could be quite useful for repro'ing such things 
if the cost was more along the lines of what a Corvair owner would 
find worthy... maybe the vintage 'Vette crowd would find it appropriate.


tony..