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Old 05-14-2015, 10:35 PM
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Pity they did not know this has been done years ago already. And they assembled the combustor the wrong way round....
SLS in super alloys is more than a decade old. We use EOS machines for printing titanium and the finish is good.
Most popular application is for printing injection mold inserts with cooling channels so efficient cycle times can be doubled.