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[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

If you want to see it, my RepRap is running a makergear plastruder. And it
works beautifully...

I'll have it at the Makerfaire.

And yes, people have definitely done some work in the reprap community to
adapt CNC machines to be able to print. (I believe there is a project to use
EMC2 to drive a 3d printer somewhere in the reprap wiki). Also I'm sure you
could adapt RepRap Electronics to drive your CNC either way, so you could
swap out driver boards when you want to print.

- Paul

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:

> Hey Darcy,
>
> I'd recommend picking up one of Rick's:
> http://www.makergear.com/products/plastruder
>
> Very solid, reliable build, and great support.  He also offers a selection
> of nozzle diameters to get finer detail.
>
> Andrew.
>
> On 2010-10-28, at 2:04 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>
> > I'm either getting or making a CNC milling machine and I'd like to use it
> as an extruder.
> >
> > Is there a nice extruder that I can add (in place of the mill) in order
> to make plastic things?
> >
> >
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