| Bill E |
04-22-2014 01:33 PM |
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| OnyxRider |
04-22-2014 02:10 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralphy
(Post 1296514)
Inconel is the material I most often machine rodneym. We rebuild the engines combustion chamber in our dept.. Reworking worn working dimensions. The surfaces are plasma sprayed and machined to tolerance. Anyhow, the sprays characteristics are unlike the original material. That's why I mentioned can a 3D copy, really be made of the same materials that represent exactness/properties? Ever? I'm no metallurgist.
Sometimes we weld and machine repair dimensions also, not sure why one or the other is chosen.
Inconel having a very high content Nickel, up to 70% and Chromium 30% and Molybdenum up 10%. Makes it very very tough but not hard, good properties under high heat! Racers are using it now. Exhaust is a place.
So how do you replicate to exactness, cast iron, steel, aluminum, magnesium, brass and copper? Even leather, glass, how about the foam in the seats everything that goes into the making.
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Ralphy
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I'm not a fabricator but many things are still done the ole fashion way. lol
Thing is what is being produced today in secret may not even see the light of day in forty years. I do think in the near future there will be replicators for simple to produce items. |
| Ralphy |
04-22-2014 02:51 PM |
Quote:
Originally Posted by OnyxRider
(Post 1296949)
I'm not a fabricator but many things are still done the ole fashion way. lol
Thing is what is being produced today in secret may not even see the light of day in forty years. I do think in the near future there will be replicators for simple to produce items.
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Metals have been worked for ages. I'm finding it hard to believe an entire new process for the manufacture of them, would be created all because of a 3D printer. I hope I'm wrong!
I would think an entirely new material would be easier to create.
Ralphy |
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