/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12417869
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfOhC-qntLg
Here's an older video from the SPEE3D printer, now obviously you'd need a great deal more precision for a rocket engine, either the process would have to be slowed down, or the idea I had was to create a rotary deck of different toolheads at different precisions as needed. The armature is also not as precise and steady as others I've seen so a replacement of the armature with one that's more stable would also likely greatly increase build quality. There would probably also still have to be some finishing work, but of course that's true for all fabricating processes.
SSDP is also going to be great for sheer manufacturing speed, even if it has to slow down to be sufficiently precise for aerospace, imagine what a process like this could do in eleven hours instead of eleven minutes. Give it a whole day and it might very well be able to create most of an engine from scratch.
Metal printing, when properly matured gives you exactly that kind of capability for extreme internal complexity in a single homogeneous piece of metal, thus also saving on part counts.