Terry Keeley
Titanium
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2005
- Location
- Toronto, Canada eh!
Looking into getting some propellers printed for my R/C boats and not finding a lot of info.
I'm currently making my own wax (just starting to 3D print it) and having a jeweler investment cast them in 17-4 stainless, as cast they're around 185 ksi UTS and are working well.
Was wondering about going directly to printing but the only alloys I'm seeing are probably not strong enough. Shapeways shows 316L that is 84 ksi and a bronze/steel mix that is 99 ksi.
Any info about printing 17-4 or similar? I see some shops doing 6Al4V that's around 130 ksi but I'm sure the cost is prohibitive.
I'm currently making my own wax (just starting to 3D print it) and having a jeweler investment cast them in 17-4 stainless, as cast they're around 185 ksi UTS and are working well.
Was wondering about going directly to printing but the only alloys I'm seeing are probably not strong enough. Shapeways shows 316L that is 84 ksi and a bronze/steel mix that is 99 ksi.
Any info about printing 17-4 or similar? I see some shops doing 6Al4V that's around 130 ksi but I'm sure the cost is prohibitive.