DMS can make a metal printer!

You can put a high temperature hotend and something like NozzleX by E3D or something similar and probably get it to work. Enclosed chamber and it would probably fix it cooling down too fast.
I believe the creator of Repraps student also made a solder printing printer before 2010.

Yep solder printing has been a thing for a long time. This person’s project may be well implemented but it is definitely not novel.


https://reprap.org/wiki/Paste_Extrusion
I know I saw some stuff earlier than this but I am not finding it right now.

I hadn’t thought about solder. Kinda neat. There’s a lot of folks doing similar printing with MIG and TIG welders.

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