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3D-Printed Aircraft Tool Sets Guinness World Record (networkworld.com)
coondoggie quotes a report from Network World: A 17.5 foot long, 5.5 foot wide and 1.5 foot tall the 3D printed aircraft design tool has earned the title of largest solid 3D printed item by Guinness World Records. The 1,650 lb. apparatus known as a trim-and-drill tool is comparable in length to a large sport utility vehicle and will ultimately be tested for use in building the Boeing 777X passenger jet. Basically the tool will be used to secure the jet's composite wing skin for drilling and machining before assembly, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ONRL) who developed the tool. "The existing, more expensive metallic tooling option we currently use comes from a supplier and typically takes three months to manufacture using conventional techniques," said Leo Christodoulou, Boeing's director of structures and materials in a statement. "Additively manufactured tools, such as the 777X wing trim tool, will save energy, time, labor and production cost and are part of our overall strategy to apply 3D printing technology in key production areas."
...when I can 3D print an entire plane for myself.
For the worlds largest tool
and its much bigger than Anthony's Wiener
If it takes 3 months to deliver a tool only 17.5 feet long then your supplier is ripping you off.
is a better click bait title
From everyone with a brain, fuck off.
Sounds to me like you are a racist. You must support Donald Trump and his campaign to enslave African Americans. Let me guess you are white, that is a racist! End the hate. Vote Democrat.
When Hillary is elected people like you will be rounded up and given to the appropriate government run facilities to teach you to think correctly.
Let's end the racism. Vote Hillary.
You must be from one of those Southern States that have institutionalized racism and bigotry. As a member of the privileged white class, you can not possibly know the struggles that African Americans must go trough every second of every day just to survive. Just because there are a few well to do African Americans, does not mean every African American gets to share in the American Dream. The average African American is raped 6 times by the age of 14 by evil white people. The average African American only lives to the age of 43. You need to think outside your own bigoted mindset, but you can't because you live in a sea of white privilege. Whereas you as a white person, can ask directions from a law enforcement officer, and have the law enforcement officer drive you to your destination with a police escort, if you were an African American, you would be immediately shot just for looking at the officer. These are the facts of life that Hillary Clinton is trying to fix. When we no longer have African Americans being shot summarily by law enforcement, we would be going a long way to enacting the American Creed. Let it happen. Give up your bigotry.
Hillary for President
Sure the 3D-printed part of the tool is 17.5 foot long and 1.5 foot wide, but it's only about 3 inches deep. The rest of the 1.5 foot claim is welded metal support structure.
It's a jig. It holds things in place, like a glorified clamp. It may be big, but it's not very interesting.
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
Honestly, I have no clue what those values mean.
For the curious among you:
According to google, it is 5.33m long * 1.68m wide* 45.7cm tall. It weights approximately 748.4 kg.
Why is the category for the largest *SOLID* 3D printed object? You really can't 3D print anything with a liquid or a gas... Is there some 40 foot 3D printed chocolate bar or pancake somewhere?
The record is for additive manufacturing. I personally work with a tool that is 465 feet long and hold 9 airplane fuselages.
Also, Guiness is a beer, and they created the book to settle bar bets. And apparently stir up crackpots.
What about the 3D Printed concrete huts?!
I picture a couple Irish dudes coming over... drunk as hell on Guinness Stout and some Smythwicks... "yep, sure is big all right (burrrrp) now where's the nearest pub"
Because hijacking a completely unrelated topic is not going to make people want to listen to you, at best they ignore you, at worst you have now pushed them away and finding support will be much harder. Not to smart for a group that makes up only 13% of the population (and that percentage is not growing).