Vik Olliver wrote:
> Has any work been done on the FDM printing of moulds for ceramic or
> plaster components? I wondered if this might provide a way of creating
> the heat-resistant items required in the RepRap? Heater bodies, ready to
> be wrapped in nichrome; nozzles perhaps, made as they used to make clay
> pipes?
>
> If necessary, the RepRap would even be capable of printing the moulds
> for its own oven!
Yes - we've already thought of that. The primary idea was to have RepRap make a
mould in thermoplastic and use it to cast a thermoset part that would go up to
high temperature. But we could also do plaster or ceramic slip.
Yours
Adrian
http://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensab
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