3D printing a wrench

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3D printing a wrench… fun maker history too…

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4 Comments

  1. Bastiaan
    July 10, 2011 at 5:47 am

    Does anyone find it suspicious that the printed model somehow has grown a different handle than the one the scanned? I appreciate the need for "here is one we prepared earlier" but this needs a disclaimer.

  2. flapjackboy
    July 10, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Also, scanning just the exterior of an assembled wrench would not reproduce the jaw opening mechanism.

  3. mark
    July 10, 2011 at 1:37 pm

    Pay no attention to the bytes hidden behind the curtain of proprietary secrets.

  4. jah
    July 11, 2011 at 7:44 am

    Printing in space may be not that fuel efficient, as you’d have to accelerate with 1G while printing, or does this work in the (powder) cloud, too?

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