Machining

3D Printed Solid’s machining capabilities include manual equipment such as  Lathes, Mill, Drill Press, Saws, Rotary Table, Grinders, Sanders, and a array of various measuring equipment. Everything needed to enhance our production and prototyping capabilities.

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All of our 3D Printers which we use on a daily bases, have been modified to improve the overall performance of the printers. Through many years of testing different printer heads, nozzles, and auxiliary parts we have fine tuned our printers to make the highest quality prints in a reasonable amount of time. There are many factors which go into the design of 3D Printer and having 27 years experience in extrusion design and working with plastics on a daily bases during that time sets us apart for the rest of the crowd.

Another use for our machining equipment comes from concept proofing or prototyping. When we need a high strength part or an application that has high wear resistance we use other materials such as Stainless Steel, Steel, Aircraft Grade Aluminum, Brass, as well as Formulated Resins/Polymers. Different applications require different materials and methods to achieve a high quality part. Moving parts, such as Rival flywheels can turn up to 30,000+ RPM and they take a lot of repetitive stress from ball impact. The cyclic motion of impacting balls at a given rate can introduce vibrations at high rpms. So having a true and balanced flywheel is critical to performance/safety and you can only get that trough tight tolerances. This is the reason we use high quality resins for our flywheels and we turn them on a lathe to hold a greatly improved dimensions and concentricity over other methods.