Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] 3D Printer

>This is a fascinating subject - especially as I'm just playing around with
>the Gingery design for an injection moulding machine which is, itself,
>basically a big glue gun for plastic! The biggest problem would seem to be
>the regulation of droplet size but perhaps you could use a kind of cylinder
>and plunger but with some form of solenoid to tap the top of the plunger and
>make it squirt a 'standard sized' drop of wax out of the nozzle. It may also
>need some kind of hot scraper bar to pass over the work as each layer is
>built up so as to level it off to a known level.

As long as you're dropping stuff onto a target format, why not rig a MIG
head and build the part directly? No special resin, leveling, filling,
scraping, etc ... and no remaining intermediate steps to the finished part.

Regards, Hoyt McKagen

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