Carbon fiber 3D printer

[SDheavymetal]

If I had lots of extra money I would get one of these.
https://markforged.com/

[BigSki]

Originally Posted by SDheavymetal

If I had lots of extra money I would get one of these.
https://markforged.com/

Kind of interesting, I'd be curious to know what they are using for a laminate between the CF fibers.

[Crawling Calvin]

interesting idea. I wonder if it can print on other printers like an Ultimaker or things like that. I know there are filaments with things like wood, bamboo, chalk and sparkly stuff powders inside but that is really something else!

[Crawling Calvin]

For those with "regular" 3D printers I found this. Not sure what it would work on but worth asking the company before purchasing

[lostonthetrails]

Originally Posted by BigSki

Kind of interesting, I'd be curious to know what they are using for a laminate between the CF fibers.

I'm wondering the same thing. Carbon Fiber is a composite material so there's obviously a lot more than just a "filament" being ejected from a nozzle like a normal 3D printer, You have to weave it, that's how carbon fiber is strong. Although I think I just might of answered how they laminate the fibers.

[BigSki]

Originally Posted by lostonthetrails

I'm wondering the same thing. Carbon Fiber is a composite material so there's obviously a lot more than just a "filament" being ejected from a nozzle like a normal 3D printer, You have to weave it, that's how carbon fiber is strong. Although I think I just might of answered how they laminate the fibers.

A "regular" 3D printer melts the filament in the nozzle and lays out a small stream, stacking them on top of the last layer. CF can't really be melted and it can't adhere to anything without a plastic polymer saturated into the fibers. The
carbon fiber "printer" would have to add some type of adhesive between the layers for everything to bond together.

[tc1]

Does anybody have one of these yet? Our shop is looking into a 3d printer, and Carbon fiber would be an awesome material to play with!!


Travis

[hypnolobster]

So far, these have been sort of a disaster. Some bad business practices, and it screams "we had this cool proof of concept and started a business, but now we can't get it to work perfectly." This has happened a ton of times in the more breakthrough 3D printer world. I'm still waiting for the laser cured resin printers to be viable.

[EddieO]

Curious where you are seeing this about the printer. I have followed it for about a year off and on...not really seen anything bad about it, save they would not sell one to the print a gun guy.

Private reviews seem to show it working as claimed....

Later EddieO

Originally Posted by hypnolobster

So far, these have been sort of a disaster. Some bad business practices, and it screams "we had this cool proof of concept and started a business, but now we can't get it to work perfectly." This has happened a ton of times in the more breakthrough 3D printer world. I'm still waiting for the laser cured resin printers to be viable.