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Old 09-23-2015, 12:45 PM   #9
RobertB
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Default Re: Non fitting / defective aftermarket parts

Just to throw a little more fuel on the fire...we may live long enough to see restorers using 3-D printers to replicate parts. I just saw an auction with three of the printers for sale, so it's no longer "new" tecnology.

I do understand that the cost of making a steel part with one of these is very expensive. The fellow that made a working 1911 Colt, 45 acp, said it cost well over a hundred thousand for the first one...if memory servces.

But the day will probably come where the garage owner will get all his parts this way....just punch in the numbers and the copier spits out the parts. Who remembers how much carbon paper and typwrites a company used to burn through.

Just saying, we only have to live to be a couple of hundred years old to have easy access to the parts!
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