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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
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I’m curious how much you paid for it, SLS can be pretty expensive! Very cool.
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$8USD each for d6 and smaller, up to $9USD for a d20.
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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
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Looks really cool! How does it feel tactilely?
Also, you should repost this to !boardgames@sopuli.xyz :)
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The blue dice look like you could chew them and they'd taste of Listerine :P
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Forbidden jolly ranchers.
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Link to the printer?
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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?
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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.
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I don't. The last time i was close to parts manufacturing, I was drafting parts on vellum.
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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.
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whoa, that's metal (literally)
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What kind of polishing did they need?
- So an earlier, rough polish is on the left and the original finish on the right.
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I started with 400grit, then went P600, P1000 and finished with a stainless steel polish and ball polisher on a drill.
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