Repair of a roller of an office chair

Carloh

cool work cotty! so you have a 3D printer at home? are there already cheap ones?

hermannausowl

If so, I'm really jealous.
On the Cube 3D, ordered in Dusseldorf, I wait more than a half a year and the payment in advance.

cotty

@carloh said:

:roflmao:
cool work cotty! so you have a 3D printer at home? are there already cheap ones?

No, it was printed by shapeways.

baz

3D printing is going to change the world, and here is a perfect example, that chair would be put on the tip normally, 10 kilos of steel, fabric, plastic, etc. I've done it myself. But now we can repair and indeed improve our material world.
Bring it on.
Baz

pbacot

@baz said:

3D printing is going to change the world, and here is a perfect example, that chair would be put on the tip normally, 10 kilos of steel, fabric, plastic, etc. I've done it myself. But now we can repair and indeed improve our material world.
Bring it on.
Baz

Yes. And for more complicated parts that commonly need replacing, where the manufacturer has no incentive to make and ship to end user, experts might provide digital models for DL by average consumers. Better yet one might scan the old one and make the repair digitally for printing.