-Some of the plastics being used are useful in lost wax casting techniques.
-What?  You're not going to make a hood ornament for your airplane?
-How about switch and control handles?
-Maybe a new design for a portable radio/gps mount completely customized for your airplane.
-Do you have a cup holder in your airplane?
-How many times have you wished for a quick way to prototype something before spending the time and money cutting real
metal?

That's just off the top of my head.  The one thing I do know is that projects grow to fill the tools available 8*).

Chad Robinson wrote:
> I looked at these and they're pretty cool. But I can't for the life of
> me figure out what I'd make for an airplane with them. Most produce
> fairly most-sized parts, in other words, not wings, and they use (heavy)
> thermoplastics - again, not wings. They aren't strong enough for engine
> parts, and can't fab with metal anyway. (There are some laser-sintering
> concepts but they're much more complicated and expensive.)
>
> Any ideas on how they'd be useful? I just don't see it (yet), but my
> ears are open.
>
> On 9/30/2011 11:33 AM, Ernest Christley wrote:
>> Requisite link:
>>
>> http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel
>>
>> Ed Anderson wrote:
>
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