I wouldn't want a printed engine..
a printed camshaft perhaps... rockers maybe... head.. not really,
cylinder, piston, conrod or crank.. NOPE!!
Not because of lack of precision.. (no commercially made engines drops useable off a mold.. it's machined afterwards... and that you'd have to do on a printed part as well)
but because it being sintered ...
3D metal printer fused deposit printing...
that's exactly what a welder does.. fuse deposit melting metal into/onto a part.
so take your MIG welder, lay down a few beads, then some more on top and again and again...
and voila a hand"printed" all metal 3D object!
making a cartesian robot to hold and trigger a MIG gun shouldn't be too difficult tbh...
so if you're curious... just make one (I'm actually nearly certain that at least somebody must have already tried that..)
'sid
a printed camshaft perhaps... rockers maybe... head.. not really,
cylinder, piston, conrod or crank.. NOPE!!
Not because of lack of precision.. (no commercially made engines drops useable off a mold.. it's machined afterwards... and that you'd have to do on a printed part as well)
but because it being sintered ...
3D metal printer fused deposit printing...
that's exactly what a welder does.. fuse deposit melting metal into/onto a part.
so take your MIG welder, lay down a few beads, then some more on top and again and again...
and voila a hand"printed" all metal 3D object!
making a cartesian robot to hold and trigger a MIG gun shouldn't be too difficult tbh...
so if you're curious... just make one (I'm actually nearly certain that at least somebody must have already tried that..)
'sid
