Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 3D-printer

From: <Hwatering@...>

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> Now that my CNC-router is almost finished, I'm thinking about a new
> project, a 3D-printer (like z-corp). Does anyone know a group or a
> site about a selfmade version

If you do a search of "santa machine" you'll find a number of machines
that use the head from an ink jet printer to spray water onto corn starch or
dextrose <sp>. It's a simple set up: a box with a false bottom that goes up
and down starts with the bottom near the top, the tank is filled and a wiper
bar levels it off. Then the prither head is run over the top on an X/Y rig
(kinda like a flame or plasma cutter). Next the table moves down, is filled,
leveled off, 'printed'...... until the full part is made. You then heat the
box or just let it sit in a worm room over night. You can then reach into
the powder and pull out your part.

They don't make great parts and you have to spray them with glue or
paint. Sort of a first step thing or at least a way to get by cheep until
you save up to build a nicer one