<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hns@computer.org">hns@computer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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> However, you may also want to consider making the parts directly,<br>
> without going via a cast. This is much more expensive for larger<br>
> quantities, but if you only need a handful of cases anyway, it<br>
> should be more efficient.<br>
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</div>The alternative would be 3D-Printing. There are now some quite good<br>
machines that can produce in ABS. Unfortunately these machines are<br>
rather expensive and operators want to have fast amortization. This<br>
raises cost of small quantities of cases like the freerunner well<br>
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