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Title: your workshop needs one
Post by: lukeb1961 on February 22, 2009, 06:34:25 am: http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105123ad/498ebd00a62edaa0/47fe70d4555df05a/9e46bd46/-cpid/ba4377d3bfd6c81
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: E74 on February 22, 2009, 09:15:39 am: My Jaw is still on the ground!! :o

Amazing technology....
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Post by: Mark Austin on February 22, 2009, 10:29:16 am: Bloody brilliant! I want one ! 8)
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Post by: mainline on February 22, 2009, 10:58:56 am: i wonder if you could scan a whole works bike?
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: VMX247 on February 22, 2009, 11:03:47 am: Far out...
Even for the health industry :o image the body parts you could make in the operating room :o
anyone for new knees ;D
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: lukeb1961 on February 22, 2009, 12:44:28 pm: I was also looking at the Dimension (baby-sized "uPrint") printer video here:
http://www.dimensionprinting.com/3d-printers/3d-printing-uprint-video.aspx
toward the end they show a shock-absorber. yes, it compresses. This is stunning stuff, yes - but for what, under about US$30-40k you could have all this in your cramped grubby workshop today, not some squillion dollar fabrication lab. That just blows me away.
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Post by: LWC82PE on February 22, 2009, 02:03:30 pm: very interesting
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Post by: Lozza on February 22, 2009, 02:17:09 pm: The price is the amazing thing, seems much cheaper than rapid prototyping and you could have it on your desk top(I bet the plastic isn't cheap though). The dimension scanner was a bit of overkill, anybody proficient with Solidworks could make a model of the slide valve pretty quickly.Hang on aren't the old fashioned ways much better.......................
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: lukeb1961 on February 22, 2009, 03:24:41 pm: 20 years ago, pure science-fiction regardless of how much you could spend. Today it is cheap-ish, but a few short years from now and any well-equipped workshop may well have one. No pattern-maker, castings, etc. What does that mean for low-volume manufacturing? What the future holds just gallops beyond my feeble brain...
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: VMX247 on February 22, 2009, 04:20:39 pm: Quote from: lukeb1961 on February 22, 2009, 03:24:41 pm
20 years ago, pure science-fiction regardless of how much you could spend. Today it is cheap-ish, but a few short years from now and any well-equipped workshop may well have one. No pattern-maker, castings, etc. What does that mean for low-volume manufacturing? What the future holds just gallops beyond my feeble brain...

Sadly agree,most well equipt workshops no longer have the tradesmen of true Art,as time moves out of one era into the next.The most amazing pattern place I have been to is http://www.yarloopworkshops.com.au/ the volume of wooden patterns for steam trains is overwhelming as some of the picture from the pattern room show(don't do the workshop justice).These are true woodcrafters (I believe he was a German) pieces of art.

I also believe the plastics machine in the vid would come at a very high price.
cheers Alison
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: lukeb1961 on February 23, 2009, 07:17:18 am: Quote from: vmx247 on February 22, 2009, 04:20:39 pm
I also believe the plastics machine in the vid would come at a very high price.
apparently they range from $US15k up to about US$50k today.
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: Marc.com on February 23, 2009, 10:09:54 am: Quote from: mainline on February 22, 2009, 10:58:56 am
i wonder if you could scan a whole works bike?

I was in a factory in China that was set up with production cell for short runs of anything you could name, so basically throw your sample of the table and 5 axis measuring machien and lathe to the rest. DG heads anyone. ;D
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Post by: Lozza on February 23, 2009, 05:35:14 pm: If you were going to repro an item,wouldn't it be better to do something actually worth making? ::)
Title: Re: your workshop needs one
Post by: PJR on February 23, 2009, 07:56:42 pm: This is an April Fools joke a month early. It had me in until they stuck the shifter in and out came a WORKING plastic version. Very funny.