From: Terry Wohlers (tw@wohlersassociates.com)
Date: Fri Mar 04 2005 - 23:48:31 EET
Ricardo,
See the following. It was taken from Wohlers Report 2004.
At an FDM user's manufacturing plant, a pulley on a production line belt sander cracked, taking the belt sander out of commission. The cracked pulley was made of aluminum, but to avoid any more downtime, the fabrication manager decided to try a polycarbonate part from the FDM Titan. After a month of operation, the pulley was still going, and the fabrication manager was in no hurry to replace it with its aluminum counterpart.
I hope this helps!
Terry
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Terry Wohlers
Wohlers Associates, Inc.
OakRidge Business Park
1511 River Oak Drive
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 USA
970-225-0086
Fax 970-225-2027
tw@wohlersassociates.com
http://wohlersassociates.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ricardo Calumby
To: rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: [rp-ml] FDM for manufacturing
Hello all,
Has anyone already used the FDM technology to build end parts? I know that there are many people using SLS for rapid manufacturing, but, the FDM I have never heard about.
Thanks,
Ricardo Calumby
Materials Engineer
Brazil
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