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On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Bluey <bl...@smallfootprint.info> wrote: > Ah, yeah. I was actually thinking of a bit of a bastardised printer designed > just for printing the small pieces. That way, the print heads would only > move left–right by the width of the largest small piece and the frame et al. > could remain unchanged. (An even more crazy version would be to have four > fixed printer heads mounted above a table that can move in the X and Y > direction. Obviously the Z-axis mechanism would need to be rated for the > higher weight resulting from the extra printer heads.) ohh yeah. huh. btw please do keep line lengths to under around 70-75 characters. see that single ">"? that should be about 6, one for each line. by using a mailer that totally fails to put in proper linebreaks i am FORCED to manually break up what you've written... but today i can't be bothered. > The long pieces would still be printed on a standard one-head printer. i wonder if the steppers could cope with the extra weight? > - Bluey > > P.S. Is there any reason that PLA can’t be used in place of resin in the cast > moulds? That way you get the speed of casting with the strength of PLA. i have no idea! very good question! _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
