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Re: making your own LEGO parts
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:19:49 GMT
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Selçuk wrote in message ...
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> Kevin Maynes <ERASETHISBITkmaynes@powersurfr.com> wrote in message
> news:FMt8uu.33r@lugnet.com...
> > 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.
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> 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.
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
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| (...) It is a low grade plastic tat is used extensively in the US Auto industry for prototyping, etc. Each unit costs between 100,000USD - 500,000USD. Very expensive, but it can take CAD data from Unigraphics or whatever, and make a part from the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Kevin Maynes <ERASETHISBITkmaynes...surfr.com> wrote in message news:FMt8uu.33r@lugnet.com... (...) epoxy-like (...) computer-controlled to (...) the (...) manned (...) not be (...) couple (...) cheap (...) Some decades?..Even here in Turkey, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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