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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (693680)	1/18/2013 3:29:06 PM
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You can do additive printing(3D) in metals as well. It is only going to get better and better as the technology keeps improving. agmetalminer.com Quote: One EOS client that’s not a huge OEM (but supplies huge OEMs) is Morris Technologies in Cincinnati, Ohio. Incidentally, Morris was the first North American manufacturing firm to buy the EOSINT M 270 system, and runs nine of their machines in total the most of any lab or manufacturer in the world. They employ a variety of metal powders of both well-known (e.g. Ti6Al4V) and lesser-known alloys that are used for tensile strength, hardness and durability in machined parts. (More about Morris in Part Two of this series.) As of mid-2007, reports indicated that EOS printers and many other 3D-printer manufacturers were not able to use a diverse enough list of metal powders (it was four at the time). Now, according to the EOS website, there are nine different powders in use, including Aluminum AlSi10Mg. Arcam still lists only four that its machines can use Ti6Al4V, Ti6Al4V ELI, Titanium Grade 2, and CoCrMol ASTM F75.