3D printer

Nov 11, 2008 2 Replies

Getting closer to the replicator...



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If the plastic model was metalized, for example through vacuum metal deposition, could it be used to edm a die cavity? How about conductive/graphite filled plastics?


Unka' George [George McDuffee]



------------------------------------------- He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?



Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).


--Didn't see a price; bet it's still ten times what it costs to build a reprap, hehe.

$40,000 US.

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Electrodes? You would have to have a plating thickness that exceeds the electrode wear, and it would have to be conductive all the way back to the holder.

there are a number of conductive photopolymers, but I am not sure they could handle the voltage/current levels used in EDM.

ca

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