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3D lathe

Posted by leadinglights 
3D lathe
October 15, 2013 06:37AM
Some time ago I saw an article about a 3D printing lathe in which the Y and Z axes were normal, but the X axis was replaced by rotation. I am now not able to find the article - has anybody else seen this? I think the author or maker was Russian.

My interest here is in making cylindrical objects which would not normally be makeable with FFF/FDM machines - e.g., a cylinder for a 1st World War Gnome engine.

Thanks for any pointers to this,

Mike
Re: 3D lathe
October 15, 2013 10:11AM
There was some discussion a while ago in this thread.

The only working example I am aware of is this one by Yoav Sterman (built as a class project for one of Neil Gershenfeld's classes at MIT).

Anyone know of any others?
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