Posted on 02/28/2015 11:00:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Ah, you got to him before I could.
Wall of Print
2 bucks. Unlikely. Maybe he didn’t pay anything for the old printers and floppy drives but is cost more than two bucks to create.
Clever guy...
:) laughing. I woke up in the middle of the night and read it and had to ping him!
Maybe $2 in parts/materials, but what is his time worth?
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Maybe $2 in parts/materials, but what is his time worth?
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The miraculous creative ability of the human mind. Nothing comes close.
It is this free enterprising spirit that communist control freaks abhor and suppress at all costs. For example, electroplating in this country is so heavily regulated that doing it on your own in the backyard would get you arrested for polluting the environment, your shop and land would be seized and you would be thrown in jail. So much for ingenuity in a communist state.
This seems so simple I am surprised that no one has used this method before.
That’s not a printer. It’s one component of a system that can manufacture products. Hype leads to skepticism.
You overgeneralize the plating issue.
Some electroplating processes are fairly safe and easily doable in a home workshop. This includes nickel, copper, and brass. You can buy all the necessary ingredients on-line, with no particular interference by the EPA.
http://www.caswellplating.com/
Other processes involve chemicals that are deadly poisons (e.g. cyanide). This includes chromium and cadmium. You’d better know what you are doing if you mess around with those types of plating, and that’s what the EPA is enforcing.
As always, keeping a low profile with anything you do is to your advantage.
It becomes a whole ‘nother issue if you want to set up a business to do plating. That’s when you’ll find out what the EPA is all about.
“This seems so simple I am surprised that no one has used this method before.”
Try googling ...
The use of a marker pen with a porous tip has been used in spot electroplating for some time. Integrating that into a printer is what's new.
” So much for ingenuity in a communist state.”
ingenuity? You can buy a real one in the U.S.
“Integrating that into a printer is what’s new. “
New .... YEARS AGO.
I stand corrected.
Clever idea.
It's got to be glacially slow, though.
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