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The Bike Shop / Re: 3D printed titanium parts
« on: April 04, 2013, 08:25:05 AM »
well my hotmail account doesn't show any messages from bikeguide now...
I thought of something earlier after seeing stuff about how when you print/sinter/deposit metal stuff, it has different properties from machined blocks, like the whole thing is made of weld bead.
There are a few companies using giant metal printers right now, that can have layers on the micron-scale, and if stuff gets better/cheaper in the future, someone will definitely try printing car/bike rims. You could do all kinds of crazy internal modeling, then polish and anodize them, and they'd be perfectly flat/true without a seam... Mag wheels in the future are going to be sweet.
Example - the giant medallion at around 2:30 in this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuXvZt887D8 - plus the fact that the materials cost for the mesh hand was less than 80 dollars.
giant bead-layer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A10XEZvkgbY
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLndYWw5_y8
I wish I had a billion dollars.
I thought of something earlier after seeing stuff about how when you print/sinter/deposit metal stuff, it has different properties from machined blocks, like the whole thing is made of weld bead.
There are a few companies using giant metal printers right now, that can have layers on the micron-scale, and if stuff gets better/cheaper in the future, someone will definitely try printing car/bike rims. You could do all kinds of crazy internal modeling, then polish and anodize them, and they'd be perfectly flat/true without a seam... Mag wheels in the future are going to be sweet.
Example - the giant medallion at around 2:30 in this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuXvZt887D8 - plus the fact that the materials cost for the mesh hand was less than 80 dollars.
giant bead-layer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A10XEZvkgbY
...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLndYWw5_y8
I wish I had a billion dollars.
