That is a monster 3D printer! I'm guessing it eats pissy little 1.7mm filament for breakfast.
Tell us more more about this magnificent beast! How did you come by it? What does it normally get used for? I need one in my life!
It uses 2.85 filament, and because the extrusions are larger than the filament itself, it definitely sucks it down. I'm soon going to be equipping it with a pellet extruder -- 25kg spools of filament get expensive in a hurry, and this will also allow me to do more interesting material blends.
I work in plastic processing, specializing in injection molding, extrusion, tool/die making and now AM. Currently the machine is used in operations, making things like parts containment systems for molding machines, end of arm tooling, and even tradeshow props for our exhibits. Eventually we plan to sell machine time in one form or another, but right now everything is mostly rooted in R&D of some form.
That would be a perfect application, should someone be interested. However, I imagine some sort of epoxy/bondo type finishing and paint would be required to get the surface finish acceptable. Or who knows, maybe some people would like to see the striations on a repro
I've gone down the repro path before, specifically with an NNC parts but unfortunately toolroom backlog eventually knocked out my pet projects from the schedule. Fortunately, there is no real backlog on our AM equipment.
