3D Printer Replaces Rusty Old Parts

we have a nextengine scanner at work, its not as easy to stitch the scans together as the manufacturer makes out but is still a nice bit of kit for the low cost. 3d printers are hell of expensive, but teamed up with a scanner you can reverse engineer to remake all sorts of stuff :thumbsup:
 
Does it print in metals?

I thought they were like plastics etc?

Shirley Mr Leno could have just had a new whatever D valve machined up using a milling machine?


Pretty cool if it can do metals etc. Anyone fancy making some cheaper, heavy duty DISA units :P

Dave
 
the 3d printers are usually plastics/resins or powder and binder based, to make metal parts you'd make a cast, or the scan can be used on cnc machines to make the part.
 
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