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Ed

Thanks ED really cool machine

Saw this guy at Sema, truly amazing what can be done with this tool.

I'm going ga-ga. (In a good way) Wow! How much? I want one. Honey! Come look at this,,,,

Lets make some A pillar moldings, delete plates, gauge carriers, and arm rest bases!

I wonder how strong the plastic parts are and if they have a UV resistant plastic that works with the machine?

How about TC members chip in and we start making our own 'Original' repro parts?

This demo model that I saw at Sema, was making molds or carbon copies of the necessary part , right in front of me, not the exact part or hard copy. It uses some type of injection plastic that made pin head or smaller sizes of drops, sorta like a dot matrix print. From what I understood from the man running this machine, this was a R&D tool, from there you took your model to the foundry or cnc mill. I think the little model you saw in the cabinet was a little under 100k.

Awesome!!

Still going to be expensive to have the part machined but you can cut down on the cost significantly on the design part.
But you can take the data and feed it into a cnc machine can't you and have a simple part made that way? That might not be so expensive compared to paying a guy sitting there with a lathe and mill and calipers and a peice of paper.