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Subject:	Re: Help needed: my custom beards
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs
Date:	Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:20:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Darrell Urbien wrote:

Hi,

Neat website! And your links are fantastic, especially the ones to the Japanese LEGO sites. I desperately want to go there to score some cool LEGO stuff.

Anyway, my question is, have you ever considered using Rapid Prototyping technology to make your parts? It’s still very expensive, but it would cost less than making an injection mold. How many pieces would be in a typical “production run” of (let’s say) beards? More or less than 100?

You could probably pack at least that many in a typical RP machine’s build envelope. Stratasys Dimension makes parts out of ABS. You’d still have to clean them up, but they’d be pretty hard, just like LEGO.

I’m curious about the rapid prototyping. Little Armory http://www.littlearmory.com made items in the past by hand making a master. But a new round of items is coming that I had suspected where being designed via some form of CAD and then mastered via something that I had seen at JPL a number of years ago that was used to make visual prototypes of parts via resin from CAD models. How much would it cost to just make one set of masters that could then be used for traditional injecting molding?

-->Bruce<--

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		Re: Help needed: my custom beards
(...) Hi Bruce, Although I am sure Darrell would be in a better position to answer this than me, I'll try anyway. From what I can gathered, I think the rapid prototyping which Darrell was talking about, is NOT the same method which Jeff uses to (...) (20 years ago, 19-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

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		Re: Help needed: my custom beards
Hi, Neat website! And your links are fantastic, especially the ones to the Japanese LEGO sites. I desperately want to go there to score some cool LEGO stuff. Anyway, my question is, have you ever considered using Rapid Prototyping technology to make (...) (20 years ago, 16-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)

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