Hi!: somebody wrote here about a Chinese press machine he owned, being
able to
provide several tons of pressure.
The question is: would this machine be able to produce parts such as
body panels and
other steel, or aliminium, body parts of a car?
Wit the current 3D copiers, having one copier and a press of sufficient
size would allow
making, part by part, a replica of any old car you may wish, just the
time and the money
to make the casts or matrix would be needed, and an original or a blue
print to be used as
pattern.
Any comment on this?
Thank you, best regards. Salut †
Jose Gros-Aymerich
Madrid, Spain

Pressing steel fenders takes many tons of force.

3D printing in steel or aluminum takes a long time and the machine to do
it is
expensive. For one off parts use an English wheel.

Paul Lamar

Hi Paul: thanks for your response. My idea was not directly printing the parts
in a 3D copier, but using the copier as a first step in preparing a cast to be used
with the chinese press to make body parts from sheet steel or aluminum, in the 60's,
a machine for preparing casts, by grinding in an Iron block, that followed the contour
of anything used as pattern, costed here around 9'000 Euros, when an inside town bus
ticket was 10 cents of an Euro.
Regards. Salut †

 Jose Gros-Aymerich
Spain

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