<VV> Fwd: FW: 3 D PRINTER

[Ken Pepke]

Right you are Tony ... Still, this is the beginning of new opportunities!  Like LAZR surgery, the time will come when this is everywhere.

Ken P
Wyandotte, MI
Worry looks around; Sorry looks back, Faith looks up.

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> From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
> Date: July 9, 2011 9:44:08 AM EDT
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Subject: Re: <VV> FW: 3 D PRINTER
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> tony..