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Re: making your own LEGO parts
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 07:57:51 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <sgore@superonlineAVOIDSPAM.com>
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Kevin Maynes <ERASETHISBITkmaynes@powersurfr.com> wrote in message
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> I've seen the same footage. As I understood the narrative, it's an • epoxy-like
> resin that is hardened by the laser light. The laser is • computer-controlled to
> build the item in question a layer at a time, as the item is lowered into • the
> resin bath.
> As I understand it NASA is looking into this kind of tech for extended • manned
> spaceflights, i.e. Mars or Europa or wherever, so they can use it to
> manufacture spare parts as needed rather than carrying stuff that might • not be
> needed at all.
> This kind of tech might make it to commercial use sometime in the next • couple
> decades (an uneducated way-out-there guess), but don't count on it being • cheap
> enough to make Lego parts.
>
> K.M.
Some decades?..Even here in Turkey, several big companies that I know
(especially the ones with plastic related jobs, such as home appliances
industry) has this kind of gear for rapid prototyping. It's working
principles slightly different, since there is no laser as I know of, but a
type of epoxy injection, that hardens in time, from a nozzle. The quality of
the plastic is not that you want to see as a Lego brick, though. The one
that I saw while working is in Arçelik (largest home appliances manufacturer
in Turkey and one of our customers) R&D Labs, and is generally used for
prototyping plastic outer shells/covers of the appliances.
Selçuk
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| Selçuk wrote in message ... (...) I think Kevin was trying to say that it would be some decades before this method would be used to produce consumer goods (or even specialty parts for lower volumes). Frank (24 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| I've seen the same footage. As I understood the narrative, it's an epoxy-like resin that is hardened by the laser light. The laser is computer-controlled to build the item in question a layer at a time, as the item is lowered into the resin bath. As (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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