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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Vik Olliver has just sent us pictures of his marvellous Meccano and glue-gun RP material deposition system. Here they are:








He made this and got it working in six days. He managed to get a 19.5mm diameter tube with a wall thickness of 0.85mm and a height of 16.5mm, and is writing a more detailed description which he has kindly agreed to allow us to post on this site. Glue guns use ethylene-vinyl acetate as a working material, incidentally. Just Araldite a fine very short hypodermic needle into the end of the glue gun, and add some servo axes and a computer...

15 April 2005: Vik has just sent us a draft copy of his report. It's also available from Reports and Documentation at www.reprap.org.

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  1. HI ,
    I M REALLY IMPRESED BY HIS WORK ACTUALLY I WAS LOOKING FOR A PERSON WHO CAN SUGGEST ME HOW CAN RECYCALE EVA WASTE MEANS HOW EVA CAN BE REUSED , MY ENAIL IS USMANSEHGAL@HOTMAIL.COM

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