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[andrewducker]

You want one of these!

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[princealbert.livejournal.com]

God no.
Additive not destructive is the way forward.

[martling.livejournal.com]

Do you think we're ever going to be able to make something usefully strong with additive methods? The ABS stuff from Cupcakes and Repraps is all very pretty, but the strength seems poor compared even to injection moulded parts from the same resin, let alone to the stronger materials accessible to milling.

I'd be interested to know how easily/efficiently the milled off material can be collected and re-melted into fresh blocks. If it's not too hard to do that then destructive methods look pretty good.

[drainboy.livejournal.com]

"Tea, early grey, hot, in steel"

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Okay, that is pretty cool. But I have no idea what I'd do with it, (other than make cool aluminum helmets.)

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Yea gods, the swarf is strong with that one.

-- Steve admires how precise the device is, but thinks it's extravagantly wasteful of stock unless the recycling is better than he thinks it is.