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Old 06-11-2013, 04:20 PM  
Minte
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Originally Posted by kane View Post
I would imagine he will end up finding lot of uses for it.

I used to work on both ends of that business. One place was an electronics manufacturing company. They spent a lot of money getting custom parts made for jobs. They would just a need a few and paid a premium price. I also worked at a small machine shop that mostly built custom parts.

Having a machine like this could eventually allow them to make many of the custom parts they need and save them a lot of money and time.
We have a urethane casting department and the biggest challenge for them is having a good core sample to make the molds around. Today we have to spend many hours of intricate cnc machining to get that done. We are right now building a new injection molding division and the ability to do a rapid proto in house will work well as a sales tool.
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