<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>So what's your wife buying you for Christmas??</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.88888931274414px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Alan</span></div><div><br></div>  <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1">  <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joe Perkel <josephperkel@yahoo.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
 "personal_submersibles@psubs.org" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, November 8, 2013 5:32 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Printed Kort Nozzle<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0116244384"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">Alan,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Are you here somewhere looking over my shoulder? :)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Here I am in the parking lot waiting to pick up my wife, perusing images of "interlocking joints" for ABS plastic, when your email came came through!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I like the Makerbot I think it's pretty neat!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Joe<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad</td></tr></tbody></table>            <div
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                            Alan James <alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com>;                            <br clear="none">
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                            [PSUBS-MAILIST] Printed Kort Nozzle                            <br clear="none">
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 nozzle.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">There are printer kits for $900- that would do the
 job.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.3dstuffmaker.com/">http://www.3dstuffmaker.com/</a><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">The ABS printer cable I've seen selling for about $1- an ounce.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">The $899- version in the above link could possibly be big enough to print</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">the nozzle in one shot. If not then print it in sections & glue together.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">My idea is to print the nozzle hollow with an egg shell wall thickness & fill it with</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">a fiber reinforced epoxy resin. The resin may need a few pours to allow for contractions</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">in the resin while
 setting.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">Maybe under
 $30- in materials.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">I am not at the point where I need this & neither are you, but I think this idea still</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">holds a lot of promise.</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11">Regards Alan</div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yiv0116244384yui_3_13_0_8_1383874403256_11"><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table>
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