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3D Printed Quorn Tool & Cutter Grinder
Joules:
Right, suspending all disbelief that anyone could be as insane, as to suggest a "PLASTIC" tool and cutter grinder. How would you go about making the Quorn using off the shelf components for shafts spindles and bars. Would you use steel pipe/cut up cycle frame, copper water pipe!!! for the bars. Can we print a mould to cast the spiral column onto a metal or carbon fibre tube, will it be anchored as much to the base board as fixed in the printed "casting". Incorporate skateboard bearings where rotation is needed in parts and so spread the load through the printed part. The 3D printed parts could mostly hide the skeletal subframe, or maybe, the printed parts will be strong enough ? Until its been tried and disproved don't assume it can't be done. How would you go about tackling it. I will make a start on this idea (that doesn't mean it will reach completion, or maybe abandoned due to it sagging on a hot day) Lets try pushing the tech here and see if it can't inspire others to try. More and more people are going to have 3D printers, so they might as well have decent projects to try making. Those fortunate enough can look on this and think, well I could make patterns that way for casting. Let the chaos commence
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chipenter:
Plenty of groung bar available for linear bearings I would start with reserching those .
Joules:
Good thinking Jeff, but lets assume our hapless adventurer doesn't have the knowledge of such stuff and only his local hardware store etc. and what he can find as scrap if he's lucky. This guy has a Mini lathe and maybe a small mill/drill at his disposal, otherwise why is he trying to build a tool and cutter grinder. :scratch: Oh, and of course he bought a 3D printer thinking it would be the end of him ever having to learn how to machine stuff or buy any other materials and he would bang stuff out like an Argos conveyor belt.
awemawson:
No reason that a Quorn like machine couldn't be made from weldments. Have to be normalised after welding to stabilize them.
Joules:
Ahhh Andrew, this guy spent his hard earned on the 3D printer, he's young and somewhat foolish. Welding is one of those tasks to be feared, for setting fire to the shed, or discovering that arc welding in the house ruins the lino or carpets, if your posh.... Try to focus on this as being primarily a 3D printed challenge, but Screwfix is only a bus ride away if it gets really tough.
We all have experience in machining, but what about the next generation builders being brought up on 3D printers. How to entice them to the denser side of materials technology. One day they will have 3D metal printers, but not quite yet.
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