Found a place that 3d prints in steel
Found a place that 3d prints in steel
I had to polish the dice myself (more involved than just zona). ETA: The site is jlcpcb.com
I’m curious how much you paid for it, SLS can be pretty expensive! Very cool.
$8USD each for d6 and smaller, up to $9USD for a d20.
Damn, that’s not bad at all. I had a plastic part the size of my fist sintered (same technology) a few years back and it costed about $450
Looks really cool! How does it feel tactilely?
Also, you should repost this to [email protected] :)
The blue dice look like you could chew them and they'd taste of Listerine :P
Forbidden jolly ranchers.
Link to the printer?
I didn't expect that a company like that would accept a one-off order that costs as little as you say the dice cost. (I assume you spent several hundred dollars at most.) I just figured that anyone who says "aerospace" wouldn't bother doing business with me, but I guess I was wrong.
How receptive were they when you contacted them?
Do you know what sort of sintering technology they used? I got to order custom parts laser sintered from tungsten at a job I had, which was pretty cool.
I don't. The last time i was close to parts manufacturing, I was drafting parts on vellum.
Sometimes lower cost meal 3d printing can be done with normal fdm machines with a very high metal content filament, then sintered together and the binding vaporized out in an oven after the fact. I don't know if that was the process used here though, or if this was SLM.
whoa, that's metal (literally)
What kind of polishing did they need?
So an earlier, rough polish is on the left and the original finish on the right.I started with 400grit, then went P600, P1000 and finished with a stainless steel polish and ball polisher on a drill.