I wonder if they've heard about lost PLA casting? One off and short runs without needing to make expensive, reusable patterns, plus the ability to do casting shapes impossible with patterns that must be removable from a sand mold, could be a money maker for the foundry. 'Course they'd have to get and learn to use a 3D printing setup.
On Monday, April 3, 2017, 5:17:33 AM MDT, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: We have a foundry here, but no clue what sort of a 3d file they might accept. Or what they might have as an NRE price policy. Currently their main contract is for wheel hubs for 20" and 24" White Truck wheels. White being one of our smaller truck makers in terms of the overall market for "large cars" here in the US. So I'd expect the NRE stuff may be farmed out, and the finished form shipped back for pouring and final machining. Cheers, Gene Heskett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
