[GreenKeys] Model 33 printer heads

[Keith Lueck]

 Hi Tomas -
I'm not currently in need of one, but might be interested in purchasing one, if it would help get the price down for others.  
On a design note, I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I wonder if steel would make the part too heavy for the '33 mechanism to move quickly or accurately enough.  The original part is made of aluminum, and is very light - maybe on the order of a few grams (I don't have a sensitive scale here to get an accurate measurement).  I reckon that making out of steel would make it ~3x heavier.  It might be worth putting voids in the re-designed steel part to make it as light as possible - if printing it in aluminum is not possible.  
Good luck with this!
Cheers,
Keith
    On Friday, March 27, 2020, 12:32:51 PM CDT, tomas at tlec.se <tomas at tlec.se> wrote:  
 
 
Dear folks.

I am looking into, having a printerhead to my Model 33 3D-printed i steel, is there any interest to have some more printed out.

The guy I am talking to says that it should be doable to 3D-print it, obviously it means that one can have any type of Head, with any characterset made in this way.

Currently I have no Idea what the cost would be, but wil have an indication of price in the near future.

  

Mvh

Tomas Larsson

Sweden

  
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