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Paul Browning
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: West Midlands United Kingdom
Registered: Aug 2011

posted May 22, 2013 12:46 PM

Hi all, has anyone had any dealings with this new technology ? . I don't know if anyone saw the headline's a few weeks ago with that fellow in America making a plastic gun !!, with the 3d printer making all the parts . Well that got me thinking could this make a gear for my elmo ?, or any other parts ?. I assume the material is some kind of nylon or Tufnell ( used to make gear's ). I'd like to know what this would cost , does any one know more .

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Pasquale DAlessio
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From: Bristol,RI, USA
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posted May 22, 2013 01:02 PM

I don't know the cost. But the process is amazing. In Skyfall the Aston Marin zzzzzzdb5 that was blown up at the end of the film was actually made from this process. So i'm sure a Elmo gear would be no problem.

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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
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posted May 22, 2013 01:04 PM

As I understand it, 3D printing uses a plastic material that is formed by interaction with a laser beam. A CAD computer program scans a laser beam over a special solution so that the plastic piece is built up as a succession of thin layers - a laminate. As such, the finished part has very little strength and very inferior structural properties, and you are stuck with the structural properties of the very weak laminate material, you cannot use other materials such as nylon or delrin.
This makes present 3D printing technology unsuitable for anything except 3D plastic model prototyping of parts.

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Bryan Chernick
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From: Bothell, WA, USA
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posted May 22, 2013 03:33 PM

This technology is only going to improve. They are even starting to develop a Food Printer.

I wonder if the existing 3D printers could be used to make a mold. That way you could use a better material like nylon to make your parts.

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Paul Browning
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: West Midlands United Kingdom
Registered: Aug 2011

posted May 22, 2013 03:54 PM

ok , so perhaps we can put those peskey elmo gears on the back burner for a while ,so what about the plastic guides and rollers ?, they don't need the rigidity of the gears for the torque , a redesign on the elmo guides that scratch your film, surely must be good enough for that?, and like bryan said this technology will improve in the future. Keep um coming guy's.

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Hugh Thompson Scott
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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted May 22, 2013 04:21 PM

From what I saw on the news, this technology is being used to
make firearms,how clever is that.All the good things it could be used for, and the main use is to make a plastic gun. That should cause a bit of consternation at the airports.

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 22, 2013 04:28 PM

This very topic has been previously discussed here:

3-D Printing

Even we were dreaming the same thing, i.e creating parts with this printer.

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