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3D Print for MRRing

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3D Print for MRRing
Posted by exPalaceDog on Sunday, October 14, 2007 3:14 PM

Can you picture downloading your kits instead of waiting on UPS

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21252137/

Have fun

 

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Posted by loathar on Sunday, October 14, 2007 3:44 PM

I've been following that technology. It's really interesting. I still think it's further off than 4-5 years. With decal paper costing what it does for just a few sheets, I wonder what material refills for 3D printers will cost?Whistling [:-^]
I believe this started at MIT with a machine they called a Rapid Prototyper. I saw a show where they reproduced a human skull from a 3D scan for crime investigation.

Maybe we'll have P2P sharing networks where people can bootleg Athearn BB construction programs.Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by reklein on Sunday, October 14, 2007 5:17 PM
You guys really need to read the article in this months Fine Scale Modeler. There's an outfit called Print a part.com that will make a part,or a whole model, for you on your drawings
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Posted by exPalaceDog on Sunday, October 14, 2007 5:32 PM

 reklein wrote:
You guys really need to read the article in this months Fine Scale Modeler. There's an outfit called Print a part.com that will make a part,or a whole model, for you on your drawings

Great!

Could you plez post a link to their site.

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Posted by reklein on Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:59 PM
Far as I know its
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    Posted by R. T. POTEET on Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:43 PM

    Sign me up for one! and why would I want to print out a 2-10-4 when Pamela Sue Anderson is readily available at no extra cost?

    From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet

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    Posted by loathar on Monday, October 15, 2007 8:42 AM

     R. T. POTEET wrote:

    Sign me up for one! and why would I want to print out a 2-10-4 when Pamela Sue Anderson is readily available at no extra cost?

    Cause the 2-10-4 doesn't have hepatitis.Whistling [:-^]

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