Re: [rp-ml] RE: [rp-ml] PSFK > 3D Printing A Lightweight, Super Strong Bicycle

Totally agree,

Nothing to say about the bike, it´s nice but... any undergraduate, at
glance, knows that they have to design the frame with a "form factor" to
achieve the aluminium structural behavior. So, no new material was used.

British technology ? It seems that they use a Eosint P 760, as far as I
know, that machine is made somewhere near Münich, Germany, isn´t it?
Vorsprung durch technik !!!

And the EADS chief executive asking for publics funds? Too much for me

/Perhaps Mr Southwell had just been sniffing too much of the glue that was on show
around the oh so subtle joints on the bike and this guy is the Chief
Exec of a company of that size?/

Sure he did ;)

Regards

Gustavo Ferrari

El 10/03/2011 16:08, Jeremy Pullin escribió:
> Err......since when was SLS material developed in Bristol? Come to think
> of it since when was SLS material as strong as steel? IS this a new SLS
> material that has been developed by EADS or is this just
> bullshi.............I mean a factual inaccuracy?
>
> The bits that I found most interesting was when the EADS UK Chief
> Executive Robin Southwell came on. I was particularly interested when he
> announced that SLS is "British technology". I expect that Carl Deckard
> and Hans Langer would be fascinated to learn this. Does Mr Southwell
> know something that they don't know and has decided that they have
> become British? If this is the case that Carl Deckard will have to go on
> the 'American to British training course' which will mean learning to
> drive on the correct side of the road, learning how to spell correctly
> like using the letter 'U' in the word colour and learning to never ever
> refer to the British royal family as 'quaint. Hans Langer on the other
> hand would have to go on the 'German to British training course' where
> he would have to learn to live with litter on the streets, an
> inefficient public transport system and learning about the 'first come
> first served' system where you queue for everything and cannot reserve
> sun beds around a swimming pool in advance by putting beach towels on
> them.
>
> The other Gem from Mr Southwell was he said that government help should
> go to his company and that small and medium enterprises "fully support
> us and should do". I don't know who the hell this bloke speaks to but I
> can assure him that the small and medium companies would rather have
> government help going to them and would not 'fully support' it going to
> a company with a revenue of 62 billion euros per year. Perhaps Mr
> Southwell had just been sniffing too much of the glue that was on show
> around the oh so subtle joints on the bike and this guy is the Chief
> Exec of a company of that size?
>
> Is it too late for me to change my career from British engineer to
> accountant? I mean I'd be prepared to give up my sense of humour and all
> traces of personal hygene to make the switch to accountancy if it meant
> escaping any association with the Robin Southwells and James Dysons of
> this world.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi] On
> Behalf Of paul smith
> Sent: 10 March 2011 11:51
> To: 'Adrian Bowyer'; 'Brock Hinzmann'
> Cc: 'RP-ML'
> Subject: [rp-ml] RE: [rp-ml] PSFK> 3D Printing A Lightweight, Super
> Strong Bicycle
>
> Very nice. I know it isn't the point but I wonder how much it cost.
>
> Link to the BBC report
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12664422
>
> Paul Smith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adrian Bowyer [mailto:A.Bowyer@bath.ac.uk]
> Sent: 10 March 2011 11:16
> To: Brock Hinzmann
> Cc: RP-ML
> Subject: Re: [rp-ml] PSFK> 3D Printing A Lightweight, Super Strong
> Bicycle
>
> I saw a local BBC reporter riding it on TV (it was made in Bristol
> just up the road), so it clearly works...
>
> Best wishes
>
> Adrian
>
> Dr Adrian Bowyer
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Bowyer
> http://reprap.org
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>
>
> Brock Hinzmann wrote:
>> Anyone we know riding around on this bike?
>>
>>
> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/3d-printing-a-lightweight-super-strong-bicyc
> le.h
> tml
>>
>
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