Re: OT: 3-D Computer Printers
- From: Haradda@[redacted]
- Subject: Re: OT: 3-D Computer Printers
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:19:46 EDT
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