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		soursoup 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Cozy Mk IV light aircraft crashed after 3D-print... Loads of commercial aircraft and jet engine parts are manufactured using additive manufacturing, or ”3D printing”

kaonwarb 14 days ago [–]

Yes… but more often something like laser-sintered metal printing, which is not going to melt when hot.

trhway 14 days ago | [–]

Yep, and it works even in the SpaceX Raptor engine.

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