Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 3D-printer

Tim Goldstein wrote:

>(snip) I was looking at some of these machines that "print" 2 types of wax.
>They put down a build wax and a support wax. The support wax can be
>disolved away to leave your item in the build wax and you can them
>directly investment cast it into metal. The price I got on the machines
>was $50K for http://www.solid-scape.com little machine and $120K for the
>RTM machine from http://www.sandersdesign.com/ Sure scares you off from
>buying one.
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Seeing them run at the shows, I often wondered if I could stick a hot
Glue gun on my Zaxis. One would have to find a "glue" that would not be
stringy or like you indicate, find a wax in the shape of glue sticks.
Wax Temp could be controlled easy enough. But I think we would need to
locate a self closing dispenser tip. Even the software for toolpath
creation might not be all that hard. Just need it to move to a known
spot, pause, Spit "x" amount of glue or wax, move to the next spot, spit
some more.

Cool. Let us know how it works out if you do it Hugo.

Chris L

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