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Seems many 3-D printers in the $500-$750 (US) range can do ABS plastic
now. Or not?
Thanks.
now. Or not?
Thanks.
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boB
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:45:12 -0700 (PDT), Ricky C
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Some of the Maker places have these you can use. They're closed now
though I'd bet
Our company has had a few 3D printers over the years and they have
paid for theselves many times over I think.
I know that if I had one at home I would not get much else done.
Same would be if I had a drone so I guess I will just wait a while.
$500 is pretty cheap !
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote:
Some of the Maker places have these you can use. They're closed now
though I'd bet
Our company has had a few 3D printers over the years and they have
paid for theselves many times over I think.
I know that if I had one at home I would not get much else done.
Same would be if I had a drone so I guess I will just wait a while.
$500 is pretty cheap !
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On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 7:40:21 PM UTC-4, John Doe wrote:
What would you like to make with a 3D printer? I've considered having one, but I think it would sit 99.9% of the time. Kinda like having my own PCB assembly equipment.
Doesn't one of the shipping store companies have 3D printers for use now or did that not pan out? It sounded like a good idea, but I recall they charged by the time or weight of material and could not give you a price until it was done.
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What would you like to make with a 3D printer? I've considered having one, but I think it would sit 99.9% of the time. Kinda like having my own PCB assembly equipment.
Doesn't one of the shipping store companies have 3D printers for use now or did that not pan out? It sounded like a good idea, but I recall they charged by the time or weight of material and could not give you a price until it was done.
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On 23/04/2020 06:03, boB wrote:
One guy on the Isle of Wight has made over 1000, materials being
crowdfunded.
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The UK is awash with people/schools/ etc. making face splash guards..
One guy on the Isle of Wight has made over 1000, materials being
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On 23/04/2020 00:40, John Doe wrote:
Depends a bit what you want to do with it. You can often find better
models available at shared facilities like libraries or hackspaces. The
latter sometimes also having CNC laser cutters and other neat stuff.
If you have a need for small batches of plastic bits then it might make
sense to own one. Myself I call in the occasional favour from a friend
who has a Da Vinci (which can also 3D scan - sort of).
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Depends a bit what you want to do with it. You can often find better
models available at shared facilities like libraries or hackspaces. The
latter sometimes also having CNC laser cutters and other neat stuff.
If you have a need for small batches of plastic bits then it might make
sense to own one. Myself I call in the occasional favour from a friend
who has a Da Vinci (which can also 3D scan - sort of).
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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 4:51:08 AM UTC-4, TTman wrote:
I can't figure out how a 3D printer helps make splash guards. A kayak factory in Kentucky (Lightning I think) is making face guards. They are a flexible band with a sponge foam block attached at pivot points to a clear plastic sheet. What part of that can be printed? Seems like it is all pretty simple to make by standard means and a whole lot more cost effective and in much higher volumes.
Are we still having PPE problems? I thought Trump fixed that with a wave of the pen aimed at 3M? Did Trump forget to wave his pen at some other companies???
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I can't figure out how a 3D printer helps make splash guards. A kayak factory in Kentucky (Lightning I think) is making face guards. They are a flexible band with a sponge foam block attached at pivot points to a clear plastic sheet. What part of that can be printed? Seems like it is all pretty simple to make by standard means and a whole lot more cost effective and in much higher volumes.
Are we still having PPE problems? I thought Trump fixed that with a wave of the pen aimed at 3M? Did Trump forget to wave his pen at some other companies???
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On 23/04/2020 11:35, Ricky C wrote:
They are constructing the plastic head bands that the cut to size visor
is then clipped on to. Strikes me as a very slow way to do it.
They could be but in the UK at least the government has made a complete
hash of obtaining PPE. Like sending a single 40T transport plane to pick
up 80T of equipment promised here for Sunday finally arriving yesterday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52378491
Then they "forgot" to join an EU wide purchasing scheme that was either
a political decision (or hours later not) according to a senior civil
servant who later had to recant his testimony to a select committee.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52369916
I know who I believe and it isn't our politicians.
There is global shortage of PPE and chemicals needed for tests. It was a
niche business with limited supply capacity until the pandemic struck.
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They are constructing the plastic head bands that the cut to size visor
is then clipped on to. Strikes me as a very slow way to do it.
They could be but in the UK at least the government has made a complete
hash of obtaining PPE. Like sending a single 40T transport plane to pick
up 80T of equipment promised here for Sunday finally arriving yesterday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52378491
Then they "forgot" to join an EU wide purchasing scheme that was either
a political decision (or hours later not) according to a senior civil
servant who later had to recant his testimony to a select committee.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52369916
I know who I believe and it isn't our politicians.
There is global shortage of PPE and chemicals needed for tests. It was a
niche business with limited supply capacity until the pandemic struck.
Various cottage industries have sprung up to backfill some of the gaps.
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Lasse Langwadt Christense
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torsdag den 23. april 2020 kl. 12.35.22 UTC+2 skrev Ricky C:
this is one design, https://youtu.be/7tQUZfVYfbE
the shield itself I think is transparencies normally used for overhead projectors
this is one design, https://youtu.be/7tQUZfVYfbE
the shield itself I think is transparencies normally used for overhead projectors
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Incessant off-topic troll...
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Plenty of folks making their own 3D printers, so it kinda is on
topic here.
The thing that is LAME here is posts that are zero content foinger
pointing childish baby bullshit.
You have something on topic or on the topic of a post thread to say
then say it.
This stupid shit, however, is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. Do you know that
word?
"always look at header"? NO. Always stay shutted the fuck up
unless you can add civil, productive information to a thread.
So for you that is most of the time. But the netgroup cop stupid
shit... yeah... that shit went out of vogue two decades ago, boy.
Where the fuck you been... up Trump's ass?
@dont-email.me:
Plenty of folks making their own 3D printers, so it kinda is on
topic here.
The thing that is LAME here is posts that are zero content foinger
pointing childish baby bullshit.
You have something on topic or on the topic of a post thread to say
then say it.
This stupid shit, however, is COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. Do you know that
word?
"always look at header"? NO. Always stay shutted the fuck up
unless you can add civil, productive information to a thread.
So for you that is most of the time. But the netgroup cop stupid
shit... yeah... that shit went out of vogue two decades ago, boy.
Where the fuck you been... up Trump's ass?
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 23:40:17 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
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Aren't they slow? I've read of interesting shaped parts taking days to
print.
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Aren't they slow? I've read of interesting shaped parts taking days to
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On 23/04/2020 12:05, Martin Brown wrote:
Probably because there was only 40T to pick up... or maybe just 20T.
Lies,lies,lies. Just like we're going to do 100K tests a week or is it a
day? or a month even?.
Still, I think the bullshit here smells slightly sweater than the
bullshit from Trump.Just my feeling, no arguments please.
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Probably because there was only 40T to pick up... or maybe just 20T.
Lies,lies,lies. Just like we're going to do 100K tests a week or is it a
day? or a month even?.
Still, I think the bullshit here smells slightly sweater than the
bullshit from Trump.Just my feeling, no arguments please.
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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 10:12:42 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
Not sure what you've heard. Something like the visor bracket would take some time, but not ridiculous amounts like days. For the most part construction time is related to the amount of material required.
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Not sure what you've heard. Something like the visor bracket would take some time, but not ridiculous amounts like days. For the most part construction time is related to the amount of material required.
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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 7:03:39 AM UTC-4, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
I suppose the pink parts are 3D printed?
Yeah, that shield seemed like it was much thicker than a transparency foil and can you still buy those??? Who has overhead projectors??? I get mocked if I use "Viewgraph" to describe a presentation for PowerPoint.
Still, any company making the pink part is going to be pumping out so many, even a thousand 3D printers will be like spitting into the wind. Hmmm.... maybe that's not quite the right analogy, but I hope you get my point.
A friend worked in a plant making non-dairy creamer. They had a pretty large machine from Bosch that molded the plastic cups, filled them with creamer, covered it with a thin plastic cover and separated the cups, all in about 5 seconds which produced 96 cups if my memory is correct. This machine made creamers for most of the East coast. Oddly, they filled fairly small boxes that probably held maybe 200-300. I guess a lot of locations don't want big, honkin' boxes of single serve creamers.
It would be a bit silly to try to have someone doing this by hand. But I guess the machine that builds that machine doesn't produce so many, so it's not easy to ramp up. So hand made face shields are warranted for a while. All because we have imbeciles responsible for "running the country" who have no idea how to motivate production or remove interference. Instead they motivate interference and remove production.
If I'm alive in five or ten years I'm sure there will be books written with an accurate assessment of what we did right and wrong. I wonder if there will be another pandemic before we figure out all that.
In the short term I'm sure there will be plenty of books and papers written, but they are likely to get a lot wrong. Often it takes time to sort out the reality from the reactions.
Who knows? Maybe Larkin will be right and this was all a major overreaction to a seasonal cold/flu and nearly no one would have died had we just let things resolve themselves and "burn out". But wouldn't the burn out have happened independent of our actions and killed at least as many as we are seeing even *with* our actions?
I see the US active cases are up another 30,000 or so and deaths are up another 2,300. No real indication this thing is even considering burning itself out. I wish it would hurry up, dammit! Not that I need a haircut.
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I suppose the pink parts are 3D printed?
Yeah, that shield seemed like it was much thicker than a transparency foil and can you still buy those??? Who has overhead projectors??? I get mocked if I use "Viewgraph" to describe a presentation for PowerPoint.
Still, any company making the pink part is going to be pumping out so many, even a thousand 3D printers will be like spitting into the wind. Hmmm.... maybe that's not quite the right analogy, but I hope you get my point.
A friend worked in a plant making non-dairy creamer. They had a pretty large machine from Bosch that molded the plastic cups, filled them with creamer, covered it with a thin plastic cover and separated the cups, all in about 5 seconds which produced 96 cups if my memory is correct. This machine made creamers for most of the East coast. Oddly, they filled fairly small boxes that probably held maybe 200-300. I guess a lot of locations don't want big, honkin' boxes of single serve creamers.
It would be a bit silly to try to have someone doing this by hand. But I guess the machine that builds that machine doesn't produce so many, so it's not easy to ramp up. So hand made face shields are warranted for a while. All because we have imbeciles responsible for "running the country" who have no idea how to motivate production or remove interference. Instead they motivate interference and remove production.
If I'm alive in five or ten years I'm sure there will be books written with an accurate assessment of what we did right and wrong. I wonder if there will be another pandemic before we figure out all that.
In the short term I'm sure there will be plenty of books and papers written, but they are likely to get a lot wrong. Often it takes time to sort out the reality from the reactions.
Who knows? Maybe Larkin will be right and this was all a major overreaction to a seasonal cold/flu and nearly no one would have died had we just let things resolve themselves and "burn out". But wouldn't the burn out have happened independent of our actions and killed at least as many as we are seeing even *with* our actions?
I see the US active cases are up another 30,000 or so and deaths are up another 2,300. No real indication this thing is even considering burning itself out. I wish it would hurry up, dammit! Not that I need a haircut.
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torsdag den 23. april 2020 kl. 20.13.18 UTC+2 skrev Ricky C:
I as far as I can tell it takes about an hour to print the visor bracket,
in contract to that I saw some factory with a single injection molding machine is making 5000 similar brackets a day
It seems mostly like a mental exercise, people like to feel they are doing
something
I as far as I can tell it takes about an hour to print the visor bracket,
in contract to that I saw some factory with a single injection molding machine is making 5000 similar brackets a day
It seems mostly like a mental exercise, people like to feel they are doing
something
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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 2:54:32 PM UTC-4, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
I do understand the intent. Gandhi encouraged Indians to make their own clothing to be free of the industrial might of England. So they bought and used millions of hand powered sewing machines and England got the message.
If enough people were to make them, this could help at the real crunch. But I think we are past that no? Didn't Trump solve the problem by using his DPA stick on 3M? I expect 3M is also making ventilators, tanks and missiles right now to make sure Trump doesn't pull out his DPA stick again.
3M is a lot more afraid of Trump than they would have been of Gandhi. But then aren't we all... aren't we all?
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I do understand the intent. Gandhi encouraged Indians to make their own clothing to be free of the industrial might of England. So they bought and used millions of hand powered sewing machines and England got the message.
If enough people were to make them, this could help at the real crunch. But I think we are past that no? Didn't Trump solve the problem by using his DPA stick on 3M? I expect 3M is also making ventilators, tanks and missiles right now to make sure Trump doesn't pull out his DPA stick again.
3M is a lot more afraid of Trump than they would have been of Gandhi. But then aren't we all... aren't we all?
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Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:
Only in a vacuum.
Easy to imagine hundreds or thousands of people printing one bracket
per hour...
Only in a vacuum.
Easy to imagine hundreds or thousands of people printing one bracket
per hour...
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torsdag den 23. april 2020 kl. 21.11.24 UTC+2 skrev Ricky C:
LEGO has a factory here, they converted a few of their machines and are making 13000 visor a day, That factory normally makes ~120million lego bricks a day so if things very really desperate I'm sure they could easily ramp up
LEGO has a factory here, they converted a few of their machines and are making 13000 visor a day, That factory normally makes ~120million lego bricks a day so if things very really desperate I'm sure they could easily ramp up
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On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 3:48:37 PM UTC-4, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:
I think legos were the inspiration for the science fiction replicator creatures in Star Gate. I wonder what plans LEGO has for so many bricks!!!???
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torsdag den 23. april 2020 kl. 23.23.17 UTC+2 skrev Ricky C:
they sell them
I think they sell something like 75billion bricks a year
they sell them
I think they sell something like 75billion bricks a year