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Originally Posted by F-U-Jimmy
Although these are great toys, thats all they are toys. For example the resolution is just .35 mm for most machines, so everything you extrude has steps that have to be sanded out. Take a look at the full size cars they are building with these machines fascinating technology but they look like something you would make with a giant Lego set and these are built with $300,000+ machines.
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An acetone vapor bath takes care of all the roughness. They have a Taz 5 at a store here in Vegas called Drones Plus... they just make accessory parts with it like gimbal locks, landing gear braces, gps tracker mounts, and custom lens caps, but I'm always fascinated by it.
I'm thinking of doing some custom antenna mounts, and how cool it would be for making parts to be used as plugs for making fiberglass aircraft parts. Yes I know it's slow, yes I know I'd need to learn more than I already know about CAD - but I like learning that stuff.
Think I'm going to order one in the next couple of weeks. Just have to research and decide which one. Absolutely want one with a dual extruder that can use carbon fiber filament.