The only difference between men and boys...
Back in MY day, surviving childhood often entailed scars and trauma inflicted by toys. One of my favorites was my brother's Mattel Vac-U-Form. Nothing says good clean fun like handing a kid an AC-powered appliance to play with molten plastics on. I was surprised to see that raising the price up to $750+ and adding a Q to the name has made this a respectable technology again.
Never mind non-planar printing, let's go make low-resolution copies of crap! Who's with me?
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He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking. -- Spock in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
Were going to need a bigger printer bed to print those 330mm x 250mm sheets 😋
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
Were going to need a bigger printer bed to print those 330mm x 250mm sheets 😋
The perversity of using a 3D printer to create flat plastic sheets for use in a glorified Vacuform is strangely appealing,
Say, maybe melting down scrap filament can be used for something worthwhile...
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He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking. -- Spock in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
As an owner of one of the original Vac-U-Form devices myself - I am impressed someone has resurrected it for $1,000. It's also pretty cool they kept the vacuum pump manual. Can we expect an Easy-Bake-Oven with a glowing radiant heat source, too? With one of those, we might be able to melt our scraps into blocks or sheets compatible with the Vaquform and avoid the print times.
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
Pfft. A light bulb for heat? Prusa's new product line revealed...
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He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking. -- Spock in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
You can’t get inca bulbs that easily in Czech Republic anymore, EU said it’s bad and verboten 😑
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
You can’t get inca bulbs that easily in Czech Republic anymore, EU said it’s bad and verboten 😑
New Easy Bake oven... featuring a 24V 40W heater cartridge and geared pasta extruder and pancake flipper!
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He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two dimensional thinking. -- Spock in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
RE: The only difference between men and boys...
40w ? I thought this was a manly page!
