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Yes, it's real. I use similar stuff at work. We can take a customer's CAD drawing and make mating parts for the stuff that we make for them. Or, take a competitor's part and reverse engineer it. Neat stuff.

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First thing I would do is have the printer make a new replacement printer, and send the original back



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The replicator is next!

I don't understand how the 'printer' can work in metal, though.

/Mr Lynn

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metal ? Sintering. Or use a plastic part and cast with the lost wax method

If you read the article he says they make a plastic part and send it out to make a casting from it.

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If you read the article he says they make a plastic part and send it out to make a casting from it.

And they first make sure that the plastic part fits before sending it out.

I wonder if we'll start seeing shops with these start springing up a for walk-in service sort of like Kinko's.

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I wonder if we'll start seeing shops with these start springing up a for walk-in service sort of like Kinko's.

It would certainly make sense, in fact might be a good business opportunity. I can remember when laser printers were too expensive for most households and small businesses. We used to carry floppies with files to be printed to the copy shop that had a laser printer and pay for each page.

/Mr Lynn

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I've seen those things in action. Very cool to watch.

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