"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:13:51 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:23:03 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 00:36:35 UTC, Graham. wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:20:08 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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"T i m" wrote in message
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On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:14:22 -0800 (PST), Adam Aglionby
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Started with a Rep-Rap and a `model` castle

http://www.totalkustom.com/3d-castle-completed.html

Saw that previously.

and is moving forward impressively, actual machine building
things
rather
than just renderings

http://www.3ders.org/articles/201509...ted-hotel.html

Brilliant, well, unless you are a bricklayer of course.

Having built and run a Cartesian 3d printer I can feel every
movement
of that concrete printers motions. In fact it seems quite scene
in
comparison with our dinky thing.

Even thought the printer frame has to be pretty strong, rigid
and
accurate, it's funny how any slight imperfections are normally
ironed
out on the next pass (assuming they matter in the first place).

It constantly amazes me re the uses I hear people putting them
to.

A mates daughter makes cakes and (currently) buys (hopes to make
for
herself soon) 3d printed shape cutters for all sort of cake
occasions.

A mate recently bought some new steel framed chairs for his
kitchen
and some of the rubber feet were missing. It took me 5 minutes
to
measure and draw on the PC ... and maybe an hour and a half to
print,
four new feet that he says work better than the originals.

It still seem weird to be able to think of something, draw and
print
it and have it in your hand the same morning (like drilling /
cutting
jigs and templates, brackets and the like).

I still remember the old days when I had to go down the cold
workshop
and file, drill, saw ... ;-)

How long before you can just print new brat or pet when one gets
run
over
etc.

Or print a new wife when you've worn the old one out ?

Do you agree that we need a better word than printer for these
futuristic machines?
Any ideas?

Replicator would do me.

But it's not a replicator if it's designed using
a CAD system and only printed the once.

what has only printed once got to do with it ?

Its clearly not REPLICATING anything if it only happens the once.

got two of these in my lab, earlier models anyway.

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/products/8754711/?grossPrice=Y&cm_mmc=UK-PLA-_-google-_-PLA_UK_EN_Computing_And_Peripherals-_-3D_Printing_And_Scanning&mkwid=s5PaDqrLW_dc|pcrid| 88057058523|pkw||pmt||prd|8754711&gclid=CJPB-_nu78oCFc0y0wodHgkAKg

and one of these downstairs

Objet30 Prime

Irrelevant to what a REPLICATOR does.

So what does a replicator do ?

Replicates stuff, stupid.