XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics, sci.electronics.design   
   From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   Guy's, give up.  The Chimp's position is ALWAYS that nothing that   
   hasn't already been done can possibly be done or have an impact on   
   anything.  He can't help it.  He's a 1930's style bureaucrat.   
      
   jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
      
   >In sci.physics Spehro Pefhany  wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:12:50 -0000, the renowned   
   >> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>In sci.physics krw@notreal.com wrote:   
   >>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:15:28 -0700, Fred J. McCall   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>In sci.physics David Mitchell  wrote:   
   >>>>>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> OK, what "stuff" would people be making at home?   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Jewellry, utilities, tools, gadgets.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Could you be any more vague?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>"Vague"?  Do you not know what jewelry and such are?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Why on Earth would anyone print jewelry?  Plastic jewelry?  ...or are   
   >>>> you going to print gold?  BTW, I'd like to see you print hardened   
   >>>> steel and water companies, too.   
   >>>   
   >>>I can see a few, very few, people printing junk jewelry, mostly teenage   
   >>>girls.   
   >>   
   >> 3D printing actually is quite useful as part of a bespoke   
   >> jewellery-making process. You design a 3D model using a CAD program   
   >> such as Jewelsmith, print a positive, then use investment casting to   
   >> produce a one-time mold, which is used to mold precious metal.   
   >   
   >Yep, it will revolutionize the jewelry business...   
   >   
   >>>I can't see anyone printing an electric, gas, or water company.   
   >>>   
   >>>Tools and gadgets are so vague they are meaningless.   
   >>   
   >> Tools? I just 3D-printed a fixture for stencil printing a PCB. It   
   >> holds a small panel (snaps into the mounting holes) and has cutouts to   
   >> allow the PCB to sit flat after parts have already been mounted on the   
   >> other side. Crude but more than good enough. A machinist would have   
   >> charged me perhaps $500 and taken days. And I would have gotten bogged   
   >> down in toolpaths and cutter compensation and such like programming it   
   >> myself in a CAM program.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Something housewives across the continent have been clamoring for.   
   >   
      
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