Forge Sintering Bronze Day 1: I’m in the shop today working on some new ways to sinter parts that have already been debound. We call them ‘brown’ at this stage. I’m working with bronze today. Our normal debind recipe for all of our materials is to: We typically run this cycle over night, Debind one […]
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Two things need to happen during sintering:The part shape is supported, andOxygen is prevented from reaching the part We solve part shape support with Sintering Refractory Ballast – Al2O3 and Talc (for copper and bronze) or Steel Blend (for the steels).We solve for oxygen with Sintering Carbon Lots of you have asked if these powders
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Bronze-Age Relic? or, was this pure bronze work of art 3D printed in someones basement just last week? Drumroll Please… It was 3D Printed with less than $3 worth of Filamet™, a bronze 3D printing filament that works with any of the millions of 3d printers that currently print plastic. Combining Filamet™ with the most
Each metal additive manufacturing process has its own set of guidelines for ideal part size and shape – Design for Additive Manufacturing – and Filamet™ is no different. While the open-architecture process that Filamet™ allows gives you unlimited options, there are some parameters that, if followed, will make it easier for you to get the
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“3D-printing (also known as additive manufacturing) has recently emerged as an appealing technology to fight against the mainstream use of carbon-based fossil fuels by the large-scale, decentralized, and sustainable manufacturing of 3D-printed electrodes for energy conversion devices. Although promising strides have been made in this area, the tunability and implementation of cost-effective metal-based 3D-printed electrodes is a challenge. Herein, a straightforward
“Additive manufacturing (AM) technology has been widely adopted for the fabrication of metal lattices due to its freeform design capability over traditional manufacturing methods. However, the prevalent laser-based AM technologies possess high energy and investment consumption, and relatively low manufacturing speed, hampering their widespread adoption in building metal lattice components. In this study, an integrated approach of material extrusion AM,
Could it really be this simple? Early proof of concept is indicating YES! it is. TVF Partner Innovator Highball has done some great work with microwave sintering. It is still very new and in the developmental / experimental phase. But you should still know about it. The future of microwave sintering is very bright. The
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Paper published to Springer Nature Link 15 October 2022 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12567-022-00475-8
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10-5-22The Virtual Foundry, [email protected] 3D Print Metal on a Sample Scale with The Virtual Foundry’s Filamet™ Evaluation Kit The millions of inexpensive 3D printers sold over the past few years can now print pure metal parts. Stoughton, WI, USA: This week, The Virtual Foundry (TVF) is announcing an exciting new product, an FFF Metal
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3D Printed Titanium Breakthrough! A newly published paper by David Alexander of the University of Texas at El Paso, Doctoral Program in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering details a method for using Filamet™ to create Fuel Cell components using low-cost commercial materials and equipment. For the many people that are working with our Titanium Products, this
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