You could do this on a mill but how fast is your mill's jog speed? Mils are typically slow but very accurate. Buying a heated pad for your mill would be easy, just buy the part in any size you like. It need not be as large as the mill's table. Mounting the head could be as easy as placing it in a drill chuck.
The problem would be the glacial speed. But the process is automated and you can let it run while you do something else. But I'm thinking there could be a disruptive revolution in 3D printing. There is a low cost "white light" curing resin out now. One printer uses a cell phone, face up as the "controller" and you place a glass bottom tank on top of the phone. Software draws a picture of the layer on the phone which hardens a thin layer of resin. The layer is lifted and a new pattern is displayed on the screen. Just one tiny stepper motor to lift a "weightless" (it is floating in liquid) platform from the top. A tiny battery powered motor is powerful enough. They are going to sell these printers for $100 each, retail. Larger versions use a larger LCD screen from a tablet. The commercial version of this technology uses a laser to scan the image on the bottom of the tank like an image scanner but backwards. The laster spot can be made to 0.001 resolution. Phones and tablets are closer to 1/300 inch. But the advantage of using the mill is that you could be up and running for about $100 or less. On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > Greetings all; > > And the next logical question from me is: > > Has anyone put a printhead on a std moving table milling machine, and > used it to do some 3d additive printing? I am "out of room" for more > machines, and that seems like a possible to do project. Doing it well > would remain to be seen. > > The printhead seems like the lessor of two aspects, as a heated bed that > big seems to be the bigger problem. > > Discussion? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------ > 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 > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
