Nylon is stronger and more durable than PLA or ABS. It has high impact and abrasion resistance and very low friction. It’s flexible and bendy when printed thin, yet robust and solid when printed thick. Perhaps its best characteristic however is its impressive dimensional stability: it maintains shape when exposed to the high temperatures needed …
UK-based Sylatech specialise in investment casting, waveguide systems and CNC machining. They design and manufacture precision-made custom parts through a range of processes, including lost wax. For investment casting, they manufacture prototype sample parts for customers, but using traditional tooling methods to do so is very expensive. Customers would typically incur a cost of between …
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Dates: 5th-7th February 2019 Venue: Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre Stand: L310 & N310 (outside Seminar Room 2) FREE REGISTER In a little under two weeks we will be heading down to Farnborough again for this year’s Southern Manufacturing show. What we are taking This year we will be exhibiting the following 3D printers, …
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Do you produce very large, bespoke models? If 3D printing is a viable manufacturing process for you, the Builder Extreme 2000 Pro could be your new favourite partner. It has an enormous (and very, very tall) build volume for fabricating large parts. Best of all, it’s easy to use and supports a wide range of …
The Robo R2 is Robo’s current flagship 3D printer with the largest build volume in the range. It is positioned greatly toward education, with all Robo’s printers being completely integrated with K-12 STEM lessons from MyStemKits. In isolation and against others, the R2 is an excellent 3D printer with a variety of useful features that make …
Formlabs have taken the wrapping off a few new (and exciting) products last week: Elastic Resin, which is the softest and most pliable resin in their engineering range, and Digital Dentures, which is the first truly accessible 3D printing denture solution comprising two new materials called Denture Base Resin and Denture Teeth Resin. Here’s what …
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Most traditional manufacturing techniques are subtractive technologies. You start with a block of material and carve parts away until you get the part you want. 3D printing is an additive technology. You start with nothing and then add material on top of itself to create the desired model. It makes sense therefore, that a model …
Sports is an area where 3D printing has huge potential. From 3D printed gum shields for boxers and rugby players to 3D printed studs for footballers, there are a wide range of potential applications. Athletics 3D, a French company, specialise in making such equipment with one of their more recent projects being a custom-made grip …
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