[TheForge] 3D printers

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

A 3D printer will forever a precise, fussy and fragile machine requiring precise feedstocks and clean power.
it’ll be a wonderful tool when things are going well.
A blacksmith with minimal tools can function under very rough conditions with old metal  scrap as feedstock,
and still be working well after things have gone to hell.
Both are desirable.
Frosty, where is the blacksmith in space novel?

On May 8, 2015, at 5:24 AM, CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:

Two separate thoughts.
Or is it?
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The 3D will be doing on the new frontier what the flesh and blood blacksmith did on the old.

Mike Graf

On 5/7/2015 11:34 PM, Marc3rd at marc3rd.com wrote:
> clip ---------------------------------------------
> Blacksmiths made the tools both for city and more importantly for the
> frontier in this country. I think they just put one in the space
> station, right on the frontiers edge.
> 
> Mike Graf
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