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To: Cobra64

A printer can make individual parts so long as it’s the same kind of molecule. Some assembly would be required.


6 posted on 08/09/2018 11:52:20 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Never forget that Obama enabled drug runners into US for Iran.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

You could theoretically have a mix of substances printed through a single head, if they’re compatible and they all melt at one reasonable temperature. The mixing would happen during the manufacture of the spool of material.

Additionally, in one printer you could theoretically have an array of heads available which print from different spools of material. Somewhat similar to how industrial CNC machining stations typically have an array of cutting heads available for automatic selection. Once again the various materials would have to be compatible and capable of melting together into a cohesive structure.


15 posted on 08/10/2018 4:50:29 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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