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Re: OT: 3-D Computer Printers



In a message dated 4/17/2006 7:36:19 AM Mountain Standard Time, 
WillAdams@[redacted] 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))
 
If you are lookimg for that sort of books then http://www.lindsaybks.com/ has
what you need.  Some of the books and articles are even PD.  I keep hoping 
someone will put some of them on line.....hint hint.

David Reed