On Sunday 22 May 2005 3:37 am, Adrian Bowyer wrote:
> Quoting "Richard C. Steffens" <[log in to unmask]>:
> > For no apparent reason, I just had a thought about wax in regards to our
> > project.
<...>
> Some commercial RP machine work with wax. It's possible to use it in
> modified ink-jet printer heads.
>
> It's good for investment casting, but ideally we want a primary material
> that is robust enough to make the machine itself from. Wax might not do
> for that.
Good point, especially if the machine were left out in the sun!
> But we are doing a design to which one can attach write heads for diverse
> materials (the heads being made in the machine itself, of course), so wax
> may well be a secondary.
I know, one step at a time. But what I'd really like is a machine that I could
set on a pile of brush, and have it turn that into raw material with which to
make something else. I've got a bunch of scrub filbert trees and wild
blackberries on my 2 acres, and it would be nice to do something useful with
all that material. Right now, the best I can do is to chip up the wood and
use it for mulch, which isn't such a bad idea. But, I really don't have
anything I can do with the blackberries.
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