BBC1 News…Printed Nylon Bike

Just seen a preview clip for a printed bike feature, I know they do this for prototyping, but this looked like a production idea?

Saw a clip of a printed wheel being removed from the machine.

Feature should be on in a minute or two, plus it’ll probably be repeated through the morning in the BBC news style.

Bristol based as well.

they are slowly developing rapid manufacturing techniques off the back of rapid prototyping.

I’m actually designing my own rapid prototyping machine at uni currently that will 3d printer that will print edible stuff – icing and the stuff they make tacos out of currently!

on now.

Well that looks like its made of jelly…strong as steel my arse! Obviously not yet…

Strong enough to ride, though finance bod Simon did nearly go over the bars on live TV 🙂 Wasn’t all it was cracked up to be to be honest, you didn’t miss much.

We use the same technology to print earmoulds and custom hearing aid shells, would like to know where in an aircraft this technology is used.

would like to know where in an aircraft this technology is used.

Most likely they use it to get prototype parts quickly to play with, before commiting to ‘real’ tooling. But 3d printers are getting better, I think the parts are good enough to do some limited testing, like F1 teams testing parts in a wind tunnel.

would like to know where in an aircraft this technology is used.

The thing I heard on Today was they were planning to use it for upcoming aircraft that Airbus will be developing, so nothing at the moment but probably the next couple of design that they do.

I’d be interested to know how they gain the microstructure required for high strength items. I can see how laying one layer of particle on top of another being good for model prototyping but curious as to how they gain structural ingenuity from that. How dose it cope with shearing forces?

P.S. If anyone wants to build a rapid prototyping machine google reprap

I think one key point is not whether it could ever be a practical way of making a bike..But the mention of BIKES in a positive way on a prime time slot.
The more mentions, the more bikes become acceptable to the moronic masses. It’s got to be a good thing, bring it on.

The belt drive slipped like a goodn’ when the Finance presenter cycled away!

damn missed it. What company was doing it? We have 3D printers at the Uni but not aware of anyone working on bikes.

3D printing in plastic is nothing new.

I’m pretty sure printed parts have been flown as non-structural parts such as airducts etc.. during testing.

There are plenty of machines out there doing a similar thing in metal these days.

http://www.eos.info/en/products/systems-equipment/metal-laser-sintering-systems.html

http://www.mtt-group.com/selective-laser-melting.html

http://www.arcam.com/index.aspx

EADS I think was the company. It squeaked terribly and I never saw it being ridden, just the worried faces of the presenters.

vid here, didnt sound too good when he cycled away!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12664422

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would like to know where in an aircraft this technology is used.

i could tell you, but i’d have to kill you.

i used to work in F1 R and D a few years ago and we used rapis prototyping all the time, most parts are mocked up and a complete dummy car is built every year,,, a lot of preperation work such as driver fit, wiring etc is done on this

some of the actual parts for the car are made with this such as small non structual covers etc,, and clear panels for dash etc,

and on the wind tunnel side,, because the parts are made from the inside out parts such as wings etc can be made with internal tubes for measuring pressure across the wings ,,,

we are even looking at buying one at the school i work in under £2000 for a rapman

Watch from about a minute in first time I saw this technology….

pile of hype, we have been using those same rapid prototype techniques with a certain company i cannot name for fear of you lot grassing me up again,

does british companies no good in my opinion to spout crap like that on tv, even my dentist was mouthing off about it this morning, ‘oh arn’t we clever, look at what we can do’ made me feel as sick as that rubbish in the papers about the capture of the sas team, not quite sure how they were meant to make contact wihout getting captured,

god there is some rubbish on the news, rant over

This was excellent TV. Business reporter nearly went over the bars as he set off and then was heard to crash off camera. Brightened up my morning, I can tell you.