[LINK] 3D Print Toilet Parts to Save the Planet?

[Fernando Cassia]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Tom Worthington
<tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> But for hardware stores to stock large numbers of seals and replacement
> parts is a problem.

Down here there are small specialty hardware stores which make a
killing selling hard-to-find plumbing spare parts, like bronze pipe
fittings and the like, which are remanufactured even while the
original manufacturer often has been out of business for a couple
decades.

Those parts are manufactured in the original materials -bronze, pvc,
stainless steel etc. No 3D printing involved, just regular mass
producton, in low runs.

But I find the "let´s put 3D printing into headlines at all costs"
effort amusing.

FC
Buenos Aires, Argentina.