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Re: Clonedel - 14 years ago
Cost of the materials drops substantially quickly depending on volume. You can build one set of parts with a trial size of smooth-on resin for ~$22. If you buy the resin by the gallon kit (2 gallons), you can make 10 sets of parts for under $100 We pour in 100cc at a time (2 50cc syringes into a paper cup) and pour a set in about 15 minutes or so. Most of the time is mixing the material. Cby drgone - General New Machines Topics
Clonedel - 14 years ago
Clonedel is a modified fork of the Prusa Mendel, designed for easy casting by Open3DP at University of Washington Solheim lab. Metrix Createpace is making these parts -and- molds accessible at Metrix Createpace If you are interested in holding workshops or just getting people building repraps, you can pour and demold a full set of parts in a little under an hour vs the normal printing procby drgone - General New Machines Topics
Re: ABS VS PLA -- what is worst, more toxic, for our health? - 15 years ago
If you really want to know which is healthier, check the MSDS (material safety data sheet) for your material. I know i *prefer* printing PLA. It smells better. It's more brittle, and I've cut myself on the spru more (and jammed shards of it underneath my fingernails), but it smells less like slow death and more like tasty breakfast. Mostly I decide which material I'm going to print based onby drgone - General
Mendel Parts with Wade Extruder - 15 years ago
Hi, I just put these up. PLA, printed with RepSnapper on our Mendel at Metrix Createpace ABS parts printed on our makerbot. More details and pictures here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140396768171by drgone - Plastic RepRap Parts for Sale
Re: NEW! i got few friends to build a reprap - 15 years ago
We have a reprap and a couple of Makerbots that we've built at Metrix Createpace in Seattle. We've been helping people out with their builds on Saturdays and doing show and tell. If you want to see a mendel print more mendels, we've been printing non stop for a week or so. -mattby drgone - Washington, Seattle RepRap User Group