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3D printed titanium parts
alaskun:
a metric fuckload, probably
whose frames are these? (same guy detailing the seat guts stuff)
http://pencerw.com/feed/2015/8/17/this-week-materialise-magics-19-and-sg
alaskun:
this thread, a similar thread on bmxmuseum, and my imgur album are seriously the #1 source for printed bike stuff on the whole internet, as far as I can tell after looking for 2+ years now. nobody else posts more than two or three bikes/parts at a time, and they all still leave it up to plastic conjecture. you can spend hours/days/months searching different terms and still not turn up a fraction of the pictures I've put together here... Those retarded 3D-doodler pens get more attention than this stuff...
seriously, what the fuck.
alaskun:
http://vivantdesign.com/?p=182
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--- Quote from: blueee on August 25, 2015, 01:05:14 AM ---How much do you think a ti 10t antigram driver would cost? How much do you think it would cost 18mo fr now
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Antigram driver has the bearing race built in so Titanium really isnt a good choice. Even if it were, it would need to be ground after printing to get the surface finish necessary, so you might as well just machine it.
:)
G.
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--- Quote from: alaskun on August 25, 2015, 04:07:11 AM ---this thread, a similar thread on bmxmuseum, and my imgur album are seriously the #1 source for printed bike stuff on the whole internet, as far as I can tell after looking for 2+ years now. nobody else posts more than two or three bikes/parts at a time, and they all still leave it up to plastic conjecture. you can spend hours/days/months searching different terms and still not turn up a fraction of the pictures I've put together here... Those retarded 3D-doodler pens get more attention than this stuff...
seriously, what the fuck.
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The technology is improving all the time, but right now it is just too far from large scale viability to excite people (in the industry) that much. We need the technology to mature and we also need designers and engineers to be clever enough to see how to make real use of it so that we get the most from the "quirks" of designing for it, rather than trying to use it to do what we already know.
Take those Charge dropouts for example. When they showed that they said something like "this could never have been made using conventional methods" which was bollocks. It was a very conventional design that looked like a loop tail with a plate welded on. So you could have made a loop and welded a plate on! Admittedly that wouldn't have been quite the same, but you could have made almost the exact same part with the same kind of properties by investment casting, so they only "advantage" they made use of was the small production run without tooling costs or time. But, they could have designed something more radical that really used the additive nature.
:)
G.
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