3D Printed Cobra

[LarryHoward]

Rick,

Put me down for one of these but make it a small block. I'm not ready for a battery operated Cobra yet. http://energy.gov/photos/3d-printing-classic-shelby-cobra

[Slick470]

Sarah made me promise that if we ever own a house with a garage, I'm building her one of these: http://www.factoryfive.com/kits/mk4-roadster/

A 3D printed version would be pretty neat too.

[kimbottles]

Sarah made me promise that if we ever own a house with a garage, I'm building her one of these: http://www.factoryfive.com/kits/mk4-roadster/

A 3D printed version would be pretty neat too.

You can come use my garage if you build one for me!!

Or a Beck 904 Porsche would do nicely too.

[JoeP]

Sarah made me promise that if we ever own a house with a garage, I'm building her one of these: http://www.factoryfive.com/kits/mk4-roadster/

A 3D printed version would be pretty neat too.

You can come use my garage if you build one for me!!

Or a Beck 904 Porsche would do nicely too.

Nice Kim. I've always liked the 550 Spyder so start on mine next, with the 2.5l Subaru motor please.

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[BeauV]

I really don't understand why Porsche doesn't build a replica of these cars based upon the Boxster.

[SloopJonB]

The Boxster WAS their "replica" of the 550.

[Slick470]

Sarah made me promise that if we ever own a house with a garage, I'm building her one of these: http://www.factoryfive.com/kits/mk4-roadster/

A 3D printed version would be pretty neat too.

You can come use my garage if you build one for me!!

Or a Beck 904 Porsche would do nicely too.

I actually found that company through a ad for a C&C 40. Apparently one of the guys running the place is a sailor. Maybe we can invite him to our little community and he can give us a group discount.

[Soñadora]

That's a pretty amazing feat for 3D printing. This industry is absolutely on fire. Significant changes in the industry are happening on a daily basis. The grass-roots growth of this technology means the cost of entry is extremely low.

[Orestes Munn]

Hooray for the National Labs!

[LarryHoward]

Hooray for the National Labs!

Certain national labs are key facilities for advancing the sciences. They contain facilities and equipment that does not meet the business case that a publicly held company requires in order to invest. Unfortunately, budget pressures have turned many into subsidized competition for industry rather than institutions focused on advancing the science.

About 20 years ago, we used ORNL, MIT, and a couple of other organizations to find the root cause or a turbine blade failure in flight on one of 3 flyable F/A-18 E variants in existence at the time. Turned out the design was solid but GE made a couple of process changes in transitioning from development to production and introduced a stress riser.

Our flight test program was costing $6M/day at the time and the meter ran whether we were flying or not. Tapping into some of the best in the world as far as material science goes got us flying again is a couple of weeks rather than months, saving taxpayers more than $100M in program costs. The budget folks don't give credence to those events but we certainly appreciated them.