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1. 3D printing is at the High School Valedictorian College Freshman
Thu Oct 24, 2019, 10:20 AM
Oct 2019

home for Thanksgiving Dinner. Lavished with praise and every smile, gesture or word cheered like the winning point. In the case of 3D printers probably most of 3D printer accolades are false. It can’t print a car. It can print certain components. It can’t print an electric motor for a car, it can print certain simple parts of an electric motor. Nit picking? Not really because the public is being educated to expect impossible capabilities of 3D printers.

“You read it right, we can now build cars using 3D printing”.

https://www.sculpteo.com/blog/2017/12/27/3d-printed-car-the-future-of-the-automotive-industry/

The main components, such as the rotor and stator can be printed with a common FDM-printer. All magnets, copper wire, and ball-bearings used are ordinary components.

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/building-and-testing-a-3d-printed-brushless-motor-until-it-explodes

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