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3D Printing A Mini Jet Engine

submitted by newtboy

8 years 11 months 3 weeks ago

Engineers at GE Aviation 3D-printed a working version of a jet engine. For more information about the project go here: http://www.gereports.com/post/118394013625/these-engineers-3d-printed-a-mini-jet-engine-then

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I've never even heard of laser/metallic 3D printing. Pretty cool. *promote

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 1:37pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter newtboy.

That is freakin' AWESOME!!!

HugeJerk says...

There are a few types that can make metal. They both use a powdered metal and are fairly slow. It has to rake the powder across the top each time as it lowers the printed object. The one in this video is bonding the metal with heat via the laser. The other type I've seen uses a inkjet print head to spray a bonding agent, but then it needs to be fired like pottery to be finished.

I've never even heard of laser/metallic 3D printing. Pretty cool.

Right near the end of this article they talk about using this technique to recreate the Apollo era F-1 engine:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the-monstrous-f-1-moon-rocket-back-to-life/

I've never even heard of laser/metallic 3D printing. Pretty cool. *promote

Moving this video to newtboy's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by eric3579.

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