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

[Rachel Polanskis]

sorry for the crappy URL.  That is a pretty awful website.

Here's a bettter one

http://defensedistributed.com/

BTW, projectile weapons have but one purpose.   Anything related to that just obfuscates that purpose.
Anyone who says different is a hypocrite.  There is no "sport" in gun use.

Back to 3D printers.... .... I want make little models of Klippel sculptures.


rachel

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rachel polanskis 
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<grove at zeta.org.au>

On 24/01/2013, at 18:51, Rachel Polanskis <grove at zeta.org.au> wrote:

> Someone will soon find a reason to make 3D printers indictable, restricted or berated 
> somehow as a socialist or terrorist plot.
> 
> http://www.newser.com/story/159720/these-actually-exist-3d-printed-guns.html
> 
> I am thinking about acquiring a 3D printer, to make replacment parts for certain gadgets,
> but I need the right plastics.  I figure there is a small market for these along with odd artistic one offs,
> model kits, train sets etc.  One day I think it will be possible to take a holographic laser image from your
> phone, upload the model, edit and publish to reality.  Now how do I patent what I just said?!
> 
> 
> rachel
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> rachel polanskis 
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> <grove at zeta.org.au>
> 
> On 24/01/2013, at 17:42, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:30 AM, tomk <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Does each 3D printer get a free at home chemistry set with a bag of
>>> rubber tree seeds from the seed vault to be able to grow a rubber tree,
>>> mix the correct (See below for choices) compound, harden it and include
>>> lubricant graphite and mould into the appropriate shape for 3D printing
>>> and a suggestion list by toilet model as to the appropriate ingredients  ?
>> 
>> Of course it doesn´t. That´s why the ´let´s 3D print the world´ is a pipe dream.
>> Most of the cheap 3D printers use the same kind of plastic as source
>> as "hot glue guns"... which produces slightly flexible parts. Great
>> for reproducing toy parts and toy soldiers, but little else that needs
>> to be subject to extreme pressure or force.
>> 
>> Call me when the IT industry comes with sub-$500 desktop plastic
>> extruder, or sub-$200 CNC machine. (There´s a $500 CNC machine
>> already, and I´d take that over a melted plastic ´3d printer´
>> anytime)... see below:
>> 
>> http://t.co/7XL32Y9m
>> FC
>> 
>> 
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