On 8 June 2012 19:16, andy pugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 June 2012 16:23, Eric Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That's an interesting idea. Flame spray equipment is fairly expensive, > > even on ebay. Seems like it would be hard on the motion stage. > > A friend of mine is a flame spraying development engineer. > > Hmm.. > > Something that I've been thinking about is an inverse on the 3D printer. Instead of printing the part, you print the mould. If you look at lost wax casting, the mould is just a thin layer. So if you could print this in some chalky material, then you can cast metal parts into it. Of course, you just take the mould down to the local foundry and ask them to fill it.
And not quite what's being described with mig welding as a filament, is to take a mould and then just run the mig wire into the cavity. Pull the trigger and the metal will puddle and fill up the mould. Regards Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
