jmhoying
Hot Rolled
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- Western Ohio
A friend received this Tungsten key chain at the GE R&D facility. The details on the interior webbing are amazing.
Jack
Fort Loramie, Ohio
Jack
Fort Loramie, Ohio
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3D printed Keychain/bottle opener
- Thread starter jmhoying
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When we bought our Renishaw AM-250 DMLM the test build file was a bottle opener like that one. Now we have about 50 floating around the factory. I don't understand why these $800,000 machines don't send something a bit more exotic when you buy it.
implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Wow; that is a really LOUSY 3D print.
I'm surprised they had the stupidity to use something so awful as a promotional tool.
To put that rather controversial remark into perspective:
I engaged the services of two 3D print houses in the last 4 years with projects to DMLS for me (that's Direct Metal Laser Sintering for those unfamiliar with the term).
Neither was capable of doing a satisfactory job, and the process had to be abandoned for both projects because of poor surface finish, but both were still way way better than the shyte I see here.
They were run on EOS machines.
Fast forward to last summer; I was approached for some finish machining on some DMLS parts that came from a company in Quebec, Canada.
They were AMAZING, absolutely brilliant by comparison to anything I'd seen before.
I was elated and depressed all at the same time.
I could see the doom of elaborate machined prototypes staring me in the face, and I'm a pretty tough critic about these things.
So I have to confess, I'm pretty unimpressed with these samples, but NOT with the process.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix ? Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Clarus Microtech
I'm surprised they had the stupidity to use something so awful as a promotional tool.
To put that rather controversial remark into perspective:
I engaged the services of two 3D print houses in the last 4 years with projects to DMLS for me (that's Direct Metal Laser Sintering for those unfamiliar with the term).
Neither was capable of doing a satisfactory job, and the process had to be abandoned for both projects because of poor surface finish, but both were still way way better than the shyte I see here.
They were run on EOS machines.
Fast forward to last summer; I was approached for some finish machining on some DMLS parts that came from a company in Quebec, Canada.
They were AMAZING, absolutely brilliant by comparison to anything I'd seen before.
I was elated and depressed all at the same time.
I could see the doom of elaborate machined prototypes staring me in the face, and I'm a pretty tough critic about these things.
So I have to confess, I'm pretty unimpressed with these samples, but NOT with the process.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix ? Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Clarus Microtech
alexhawker
Aluminum
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- May 6, 2013
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA United States
Any idea what machine the company in Canada was running?
implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Hi alexhawker:
Sadly I don't but there are not that many contenders in the market yet.
Probably an EOS; they apparently have by far the biggest market share these days.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix ? Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Clarus Microtech
Sadly I don't but there are not that many contenders in the market yet.
Probably an EOS; they apparently have by far the biggest market share these days.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix ? Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Clarus Microtech
bishopdante
Plastic
- Joined
- May 9, 2016
Here's my one from Fraunhofer institute:
I bent the end a bit prising something open, rusted steel shaft, using it as a lever. Surprisingly tough but not remotely unbreakable, would be a one-handed job to take the end off with a vice.
Works great as a bottle opener, within design limits though, and light as a feather. Compared to my previous forged aluminium one, the weight difference was remarkable.
Direct-metal titanium is amazing stuff.
I bent the end a bit prising something open, rusted steel shaft, using it as a lever. Surprisingly tough but not remotely unbreakable, would be a one-handed job to take the end off with a vice.
Works great as a bottle opener, within design limits though, and light as a feather. Compared to my previous forged aluminium one, the weight difference was remarkable.
Direct-metal titanium is amazing stuff.
