Topic: New printer for stronger materials
So has anyone seen this before? apparently it can print with carbon fiber!!! among other things 
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That looks awesome! I wonder how they do it.. special filament with carbon strands interlaced??
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Don't know... just saw it last night when a guy over at fpvlab posted a link on it and I was busy working on getting tax stuff figured out....still am so haven't done much else.
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Huh, didn't realize you were on fpvlab. Same name?
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could be.... 
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Also hackaday seems to think this thing is a load of crap.
http://hackaday.com/2014/01/29/ask-hack … r-printer/
But yes, good.. will look for you on there. =P
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ITman496 wrote:
Also hackaday seems to think this thing is a load of crap.
http://hackaday.com/2014/01/29/ask-hack … r-printer/
But yes, good.. will look for you on there. =P
Well bummer... not like I had 5G's to drop on it anyhow with tax time here 
Yeah, I have a couple UID's on fpvlab but lately use this one the most, don't have a zephyr like you... mostly multirotors and skywalker types and a few homemade oddball things
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Should get a zephyr =P It's great.
I am curious what they use for that printer, though.. if its just merely carbon fiber in pla, then.. well I know what I wanna try when I get an e3d..
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from the way they bill it I wold say that the fiber is laid out separate or in concert with the regular filament... but who knows there isn't a lot of details out there yet I can't believe they would just use custom filament...
I actually have a few mini wings from crash test hobby and I can attest that their name is accurate I think my next large plane will be a skyhunter there's just so much room inside it's mind boggling...
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I've been thinking of making my own custom plane.. I need to somehow make a cnc foam cutter or something is what I need to do. Or make hotwire cut templates with the printer.
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if it's just for cutting wings and the like some simple printed jigs will be simple and quick then all you need is some nichrome wire from ebay and you're golden
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I did at one point contemplate making a cnc cutter, but I don't even know how people go about making the software to guide them. Oh well.
Anyway, hope more details come out about this carbon fiber printer because right now it seems a bit.. useless.
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If you are interested in cnc cutter (Open Source) and also making foam plane parts see:
http://www.openbuilds.com/ ---- DIY CNC site
http://www.phlatforum.com/xenforo/ --- foam plane site
Bob
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My main go to site for CNC mills and stuff is cnczone.com I built quite a few things mostly from ideas over there
They also have a good sized 3dprinting section http://www.cnczone.com/forums/forum.php … d_scanners
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Is CF not quite nasty for ones lungs at basically any size?
This is a crowd funding thing that I'm running: http://www.gofundme.com/bvi140 It's for pretty selfish reasons 
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CF is only a problem if you are cutting it dry and making CF dust that is inhaled, so always cut it wet.