<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — 3d printing made it on Beck]]> 2013-02-01T14:55:14Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/992/3d-printing-made-it-on-beck/ <![CDATA[Re: 3d printing made it on Beck]]> Manx wrote:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/heres-a … s-to-make/

as it says it made it on to glen becks show and boy is he ill informed

What a strange, dubious honor.

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/7/ 2013-02-01T14:55:14Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/11330/#p11330 <![CDATA[Re: 3d printing made it on Beck]]> Gentlemen - Here is an article on just what Glenn Beck was talking about.  Making a 3d part in plastic and then casting an aluminum part from it.   All nice and simple.  This is the use that I am putting my 3d printer to.  Create the parts that I need for a horizontal milling machine in PLA plastic using a CAD program and then printing the parts out.  Then using the process in this article I will create a 2 time use mold by coating and creating the mold.  Put the mold in the furnace and melt out the plastic and also try to capture it.  Then after that melt the aluminum from my foundry ( made from a 5 gallon metal bucket. ) and pour it into the mold.  Wait about 1 hour and then remove the mold and have my part.  It is just that simple.  If I can do this in aluminum the it is a small step to casting steel.  And yes it is that simple.

I am not allowed to post links yet so put the standard web front end on this.

//3dtopo.com/lostPLA/

Bob Teeter

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/696/ 2013-01-20T03:14:46Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/9972/#p9972 <![CDATA[Re: 3d printing made it on Beck]]> Beck has never seen anything that didn't cause him to say it was the end of something else.  Overheard after his lunch today: "I has Swiss cheese on my burger the other day.  Swiss cheese!  This is the end of American cheese people.   I hope you realize what this means, millions of farmers out of work, McDonald's will close if they don't adapt.  I don't know if I'm making myself clear.  American cheese is dead, over.  Oh what a sad day"

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/78/ 2013-01-10T19:06:12Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/9162/#p9162 <![CDATA[Re: 3d printing made it on Beck]]> Decent video.  Shows how many people have no clue what 3D printing is...

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/55/ 2013-01-10T18:38:07Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/9160/#p9160 <![CDATA[3d printing made it on Beck]]> http://www.theblaze.com/stories/heres-a … s-to-make/

as it says it made it on to glen becks show and boy is he ill informed

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/168/ 2013-01-10T14:00:11Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/9141/#p9141