39 minutes ago, GregValiant said:Heat treating your 3D prints eh? Time for a story.
My friend was a mold maker. Occasionally a customer would bring a mold back for re-work due to a change in the produced parts, or for repairs.
The molds were aluminum and some were quite large. Heat transfers very well through aluminum so to weld the large molds they needed to be heated up to around 370°C. A old commercial gas stove was used for that.
So a new employee gets tasked with heating up a mold. He throws it onto the stove, cranks up the heat, and goes to lunch. When he got back the stove looked like a Salvadore Dali painting with the aluminum melted down all over it.
They scrapped the $1500 stove, the $30K mold, and the new kid shortly after lunch.
Sounds like a serious oven. I have a Memmert oven, only goes up to 300C.
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Heat treating your 3D prints eh? Time for a story.
My friend was a mold maker. Occasionally a customer would bring a mold back for re-work due to a change in the produced parts, or for repairs.
The molds were aluminum and some were quite large. Heat transfers very well through aluminum so to weld the large molds they needed to be heated up to around 370°C. A old commercial gas stove was used for that.
So a new employee gets tasked with heating up a mold. He throws it onto the stove, cranks up the heat, and goes to lunch. When he got back the stove looked like a Salvadore Dali painting with the aluminum melted down all over it.
They scrapped the $1500 stove, the $30K mold, and the new kid shortly after lunch.
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