I watched more video of the Makerbot at http://makerbot.com/ I would guess the problem for piano parts is the objects that its "prints" are not smooth but appear to have slight ridges. This seems to be due to the "resolution" of the printer. Of course this could be overcome with a little filing, and refining. The objects are made of ABS plastic, the same stuff some piano parts are already made of (and Legos too!) so I think the strength would not be an issue. Once you have the machine, the plastic to feed into the device is very cheap making it very cost effective. I'll put it on my Christmas list! On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> wrote: > WOW!!!! That really is mind blowing. And to think it can be had for under > $1000?! Star Trek here we come... > > > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Eric D. <alowd at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I just stumbled across this video clip regarding a 3-D "printer". >> >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/makerbots-the-rise-of-ine_n_636117.html >> >> If the plastics/composite recipe was up to the task, this might be a >> fantastic tool for building custom action parts. It would be handy to just >> "print out" a new set of those obscure whippen flanges for that Chickering >> you might be working on. Of course, some benevolent piano tech would need to >> create an appropriate template for such a part. >> >> Eric Davis >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Ryan Sowers, RPT > Puget Sound Chapter > Olympia, WA > www.pianova.net > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100709/8f59b926/attachment.htm>
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