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Originally Posted by Jeffkop
I reckon the uses for one of these 3D printers is boundless .. Thats awesome Fred .. is the material you can print with tough enough to say make a working gear or worm drive or instrument shaft ????
Ive seen reviews of this stuff but your the first real person Ive had the chance to ask about this stuffs true potential.
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Remember this is plastic being printed (ABS). Its pretty tough, but not metal tough. You could make plastic gears and shafts, for applications that suit that, but the res would be to to 0.1mm. OK I guess for RC toys or so. Shafts with tight fitting gears attached would need some finishing, but then youde just print the shaft with the gear attached in one piece
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I have noticed that there can be some warping over long distances on some thick edges (only), so this home printer is not for large precision engineered working components really, unless you spend time tweaking it to the nth degree (a bit like astrophotography with cheap gear
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