I vaguely recall seeing things like this over the years. You’d want a proper annealing setup IMO if you care about functional parts, assume you’d want a mill too as that’d probably have a really nasty surface.
That totally ignores the fantastic metal vapours and other stuff that a metal printer would give off. Don’t get me wrong, I think metal printing is a super interesting idea, def think it’s more industrial though.
On the other hand, there are products like BASF ultrafuse that are intended to be printed on fdm plastic printers and through post processing you’ll end up with a metal print. No idea how well they work, but idea seems interesting and may be more accessible to hobbyists.
I vaguely recall seeing things like this over the years. You’d want a proper annealing setup IMO if you care about functional parts, assume you’d want a mill too as that’d probably have a really nasty surface.
That totally ignores the fantastic metal vapours and other stuff that a metal printer would give off. Don’t get me wrong, I think metal printing is a super interesting idea, def think it’s more industrial though.
On the other hand, there are products like BASF ultrafuse that are intended to be printed on fdm plastic printers and through post processing you’ll end up with a metal print. No idea how well they work, but idea seems interesting and may be more accessible to hobbyists.