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Old 09-24-13 | 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by therhodeo
Plastic printers are not metal printers. If they have one its likely plastic. I'm a design engineer. Just speaking from my experience.
No way to know. This reference http://www.inkpal.com/ink-news/3d-pr...l-gold-copper/ says the cost to print metal is 300X plastic. I have no idea what that works out to. I was just amused about the inability to hang the cost on a big supplier of bike parts.
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