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Topic: make your own parts

Posted By: Tony Elo
Subject: make your own parts
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 8:40am

http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105123ad/498ebd00a62edaa0/47fe70d4555df05a/9e46bd46/-cpid/ba4377d3bfd6c81 - http://widgets.nbc.com/o/47f1317f105123ad/498ebd00a62edaa0/47fe70d4555df05a/9e46bd46/-cpid/ba4377d3bfd6c81 Everybody should have one of these

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Posted By: BobHnwO
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 9:24am

Won't open!

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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 10:22am

Nothing there. What is it you are trying to show us?

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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 10:38am

I went to NBC.com and did a search. There is nothing on their website with the word widgets.

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Posted By: Dave in il
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 11:11am

http://www.nbc.com/Widgets/ - http://www.nbc.com/Widgets/

Closer but no cigar, at least I don't see anything.

Posted By: Tony Elo
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 3:21pm

I just watched it yesterday,they must have took it down,it was a machine in Jay Lenos garage they set up,it would scan a part and duplicate it,great for making obsolete parts,sorry the link doesn't work today guys,thought it would have been a cool thing for you guys to look at

Posted By: Tony Elo
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 3:26pm

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/extras/articles/jay-lenos-3d-printer-replaces-rusty-old-parts-1/ - http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/extras/articles/jay-lenos-3d-printer-replaces-rusty-old-parts-1/ try this link guys,this is the machine in the other one,watch the video of jay leno

Posted By: firebrick43
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 4:06pm

High strength plastic protyping machine? Where it puts little dabs of molten plastic down building it up layer by layer. We use them at work for R&D. They stand up to quite some abuse. Last on I saw was a water pump housing, now remember these are 3500hp engines so its not a little dinky thing but weights 150+lbs in cast iron. You can see coolant flow through it(sort of) and even see cavitation issues and such.

We has some rods done with them as well, weights about 5lbs compared to 54lbs in forged steel. Makes it easy to visualize and set up production machinery/jigs/fixtures when you can actually hold a prototype in your hands before producing the real thing in iron. Of course unlike the water pump housing, you cant actually use the protoype rod in the engine. While its quite durable for plastic, its not going to survive the pressure of 200hp+ per cylinder.

Posted By: Rogers
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 5:30pm

I watched the video, and that is a very nice setup. To be able to make something by simply scanning the original is amazing.

I remember seeing something several years ago that may have been on TV or in a video which was similar. They took a block of aluminum put it into the machine and made a part. The took a CAD drawing of the part loaded it into the machine and made the part. It was similar, but the ability to take a part and scan it is truly huge thing.

Thanks for posting!

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Posted By: firebrick43
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 5:39pm

Rogers, Most CNC machines can do what your talking about with a a touch probe. there is a ruby tipped sensor that mounts in the spindle and touches off the part in a grid pattern. Then load some rough stock and proper tools and machine away. It is good for many parts but complex cast pieces with internal shaped passages are difficult/impossible with this method. The prototyping machine such as shown in Jay Lenos shop makes it possible then you can use the prototype as a pattern for a new casting.

Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 5:51pm

What would happen if you scanned an egg, made a dozen of em, put them in a carton and placed them on a TV studio set with Tim Conway playing the part of a short order cook? LOL

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Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2010 at 10:38pm

Neat Technology! Our son-in-law heads the rapid prototyping divison of FlowServe and they use this for making patterns for casting parts.

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Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2010 at 5:21am

Thats cool, but watch this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqw1yjyKEs&feature=fvw - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqw1yjyKEs&feature=fvw

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