XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: '''newspam'''@nezumi.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 12/07/2017 12:28, Jeff Findley wrote:   
      
   > So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start   
   > selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things   
   > for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this   
   > would drop right into the market-space.  They would only need to print   
   > at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.   
      
   I'd have thought it more likely they would sell thermal wax 3D printers   
   to make the master for a lost wax casting in silver or other metal.   
      
   Then they would offer a service to cast the good ones to order.   
      
   > That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where   
   > custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market.  In   
   > other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc.  Even if an   
   > individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet   
   > would want at least a couple.   
      
   Maybe. I'd have thought a paintable plastic would be OK for this though.   
      
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