Re: [rp-ml] Fab@Home

From: joepuska@iwon.com
Date: Fri Jan 12 2007 - 13:34:35 EET


Are you experiencing any delamination problems with the PVA paste? The support material developments on other RP systems always seem to run into a delamination problem--until the developers solved the problem.

Jack




 --- On Thu 01/11, Adrian Bowyer < A.Bowyer@bath.ac.uk > wrote:
From: Adrian Bowyer [mailto: A.Bowyer@bath.ac.uk]
To: sjbaker1@airmail.net
     Cc: penguin@supermeta.com, jollyjohnd@gmail.com, rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:01:19 +0000
Subject: Re: [rp-ml] Fab@Home

steve wrote:> The thing that concerns me most about both this - and all of the RepRap> prototypes we've seen so far is that they can't deal with substantial> overhangs. There is always talk of having some kind of support material> but it's not entirely clear to me that any of those proposed will> actually work all that well.> > Certainly the Fab@Home thing doesn't seem to have the ability to build> with overhangs - and for me, that makes it little more than an> interesting toy. RepRap has a way to go yet - but I sure hope this> area gets some more attention.Actually, I'm designing the RepRap Version 1.0 "Darwin" support extruder right now. It'll probably work with a water-soluble PVA paste.YoursAdrianhttp://staff.bath.ac.uk/ensabhttp://reprap.org

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