/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>525847
>The only problem with metal powder is that it is explosive so you have to be careful working with it.
I work in the powder metallurgy industry and this is fairly accurate. You're not going to want to be dicking around with fine mesh particle size powders in your home if you've never worked with metal powder before.
There's not only the flammability aspect, but at such small particle sizes there's also the risk of inhalation. Most metals is aspirated are toxic (like aluminum).

At work we have to store our non-dried powders in fireproof cabinets. Our dried powders have to be stored in inert gas or medium vacuum environments. So no big surprise we have no less than 6 gloveboxes.

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We also have an inert gas welding chamber which allows us to weld titanium and magnesium.

We have some experience with Selective Metal Laser Sintering, but don't have the equipment ourselves because it's just too damn expensive.
For the most part if you want a shape made out of metal it involves way less effort and time to simply machine it.
Laser sintering only offers you the option of making geometries you can't get using without using more labor or equipment intensive methods like lost-wax casting.

If I have time tomorrow I'll post and image of something we've had printed recently out of titanium.