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Old 26-02-2015
Essex2Visuvesi Essex2Visuvesi is offline
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Originally Posted by J77MYF View Post
I've read something yesterday about a guy 3D printing in nylon. It will be interesting to see how strong the arms are. If the material is strong enough you could pretty much make any hard to get part replacement

Has anyone tried one of these ebay 3D printers? Some of them are under £500 but I can't see them being much good?
I Have this one:-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3512665475...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

And this filament
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2011315206...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Testing is ongoing.... the resolution is not that great so some final surface finishing is required, but its looking promising.
The biggest issue is printing time, to get good resolution prints can take hours.... even for a quite small part
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