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1 posted on 02/21/2014 8:06:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I’ve been wondering lately if these printers mean the end of big box stores. You just go to a 10 x 10 store front, tell the guy behind the counter what you want, and they just “print” it up for you. Or bring in your own program and load it up.


3 posted on 02/21/2014 8:10:12 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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Well, what’s the furniture look like, my daughter’s Barbie doll house seats? Will it do an electric chair?


4 posted on 02/21/2014 8:12:20 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...

3-D Printer Ping!

6 posted on 02/21/2014 8:21:02 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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"with a $39,000 MSRP"

And in the near future, they'll borrow speech from CNC debtors to say that no one can compete with that. ;-)


11 posted on 02/21/2014 8:47:59 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is great! I have been interested in 3D printing for a while, but it has always been too expensive. Hopefully soon I will be able to afford one.


13 posted on 02/21/2014 9:15:53 PM PST by MonsterPiggy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

3-d printing is an exciting technology, and this is another advance. However, a $39,000 machine to make wobbly plastic Walmart chairs is not my idea of a hobby. For prototyping though, this is great and it may mean that we will see much more variety of wobbly plastic Walmart chairs in the future.


21 posted on 02/21/2014 11:18:49 PM PST by BRK
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Maybe they can have a 3D printer make a pair of ba**s for some of our elected officials.


24 posted on 02/22/2014 2:43:14 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; null and void; bigbob; JRandomFreeper

Hey, I had a great idea! (well, I think it’s great anyway) As soon as someone can make an old-fashioned full water usage toilet, I want to buy one! Ditto for washing machines and dishwashers that work the way they are supposed to and used to do.

What potential to circumvent absurd EPA regulations.

Take that, enviro-nazis!


31 posted on 08/13/2014 8:10:23 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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