LMD: A New, Less Wasteful Metal 3D Printing Technique
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Holy fuck, 150 million?
I doubt it'll ever be more efficient to buy than specialized machines at that price.
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$150,000 thousand. Still expensive none the less
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Haha that's wild. Hopefully that means this printer will be obtainable by the normal person in about 10years
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Hopefully the normal consumer will have cheap access like that to metal printers in 10years or less
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I was hoping this one might have been around 15-20k but was totally wrong. Hopefully someday they'll be cheap enough for the everyday household
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You just called it 150 million again because what you typed reads as “150 thousand thousand”
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You're right. Not sure why I wrote it that way
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I mean, its just a welder married to a 3D printer that we actually need.
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Once the price for this comes down, I can really 3D print my own guns.
You can do it now with the plastics, but this will just make it even more durable.
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i just want to iterate on my own cylinder heads
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On top of the purchase price, I'm guessing that having something like this running in your home fab will require more safety equipment than a uv shroud and an air mover to keep things safe/non-deadly.
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Yeah, like the printers using metal powder need pretty much a hazmat gear to operate.
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This was also one of my concerns with the hype surrounding low cost SLS printers like Micronics, especially if they weren't super well designed. The powder is incredibly dangerous to inhale so I wouldn't want a home hobbyist buying that type of machine without realizing how harmful it could be. My understanding is even commercial SLS machines like HP's MJF and FormLab's Fuse need substantial ventilation (HEPA filters, full room ventilation, etc.) in order to be operated safely.
Metal is of course even worse. It has all the same respiratory hazards (the fine particles will likely all sorts of long-term lung damage) but it also presents a massive fire and explosion risk.
I can't see these technologies making it into the home hobbyist sphere anytime soon as a result, unfortunately.
