Thread: 3D Printing A Wheel
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Re: 3D Printing A Wheel
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Originally Posted by IVAN View Post
o.o why not polyurethane casting and using hollowed version out of wheel to use as a negative because printing four or six of those wheels (at least) is going to be expensive

my math has it at 5 cents per gram if your using makerbot pla and 1.5 cents using an amazon competitor
That comes out to be about $40-$50 dollars for two robots' worth of wheels. Not that bad, I think.
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