RE: specs?1 Sep 2018 16:07
thb....there are about 3 or ways to go with this....by the looks of it at the moment with different methods.in metal printing.
looks modern to print in metal.....looks like it "should" be cheap...however the biggest one made can't handle a metre cubed.......and remember as with any printer the size of the thing doesn't really cost more.....its printing component stays the same..the area it needs gets bidder...and if they cannot fit or make aircraft undercarriage components in the thing....and instead forge and machine.....or make large high pressure complex radiators......I am not sure.....it might be ok on your pushbike.....but I think a few million in outlay and the raw material to use in it might be the stumbling block....
perhaps there is a deal where they can share service and worldwide distribution networks....
ultimately.....it "just" possible to use it at home with regards to power consumption befor you start looking at the other consumables and the environmental placing the machine needs to be in ......but at over 200k per machine for starters its doubtful they are the sort of thing that will ever be a "home buy" or even a "non clean" factory item.......thus from the sales, the costs wont come down........likely as not the parts will be used to make a mould and then they cast multiples......looking at the nasa pictures, the parts made still needed more processing........and there were tiny voids in the material......this might be a function of the speed of printing (maybe that has been cured?)but if was possible to make perfect parts one off, then they would be large aircraft undercarriage components built overnight as required.....and I am pretty sure there forged also I am.not sure if you could build a high pressure radiator either....at the moment that is.....however the fact that no one has taken an interest it their recent rns is making me think this SP should fly....it might be a way of making a more "global" service, sales and production pool........as well as pooling research.....but "renting" machine time.......on machines that are not mass produced.....and your not sure if other processes are involved or the product isn't up to it sounds like a reason to be slow on the uptake and costly....which perhaps is what's happening........ for a casting firm where its built in sand...or wax ...now your talking......well it makes sense to me anyway....
At the end of all this...I think the SP could do well as no-one was interested....in the next few weeks....and coming months