Reply To: Contour Crafting – Radical change in housing

[willit]

it just seems to me that filament are what you’re after. if my research is correct the first dpf machines used coaxial tubes with both the pins and blade configuration. if this is true it doesn’t make sense that you would have 96 pins all trying to grab a streamer and then distribute evenly to 16 anodes. plasma does what you make it do not what you want it to.

also: when dc tig welding using tungsten for my electrode, I use 2% thoriated tungsten. it seems to have a more stable
arc with the thorium and it starts easier also. i use green 0% thoriated for aluminum and run ac with a high frequency stabilizer during welding. this is what brought me the thought of stabilizing the arc or providing a light streamer to each of the rods which would pre initiate a pathway for each anode. you could even make sure that each streamer was present before firing the shot.

is the inner ring seperate from the anode base plate or integral?