OT: 3-D Computer Printers
- From: WillAdams@[redacted]
- Subject: OT: 3-D Computer Printers
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 17:13:26 EDT
In a message dated 4/14/06 5:43:45 PM, Michael Hart writes:
> 3-D Computer Printers
>THE CRAYON-JET PRINTER [TM]
This is even more interesting when one considers lost-wax (cire perdue)
casting --- print up a ring ready-engraved w/ one's beloved's name et voila!
instant culmination of an affair of the heart.
Hmm, wonder if it'd be possible to do castings for all the parts of an AK-47
which aren't stamped out of sheet metal --- scary, no?
William
(who at one time had a book on how to create a metal lathe using investment
castings on the premise that a lathe is the only tool in a metal shop which
can duplicate itself, and one could then use it to make more tools (say a
drill press))