**Reviving the Past through 3D Printing**

We've been fortunate enough to have access to this incredible technology that's allowed us to bring back obsolete parts and make them functional again. The neat part is that we do this in Gibbs, as I was thinking of machining it myself, but it would involve quite a bit of machine work to get all these crossed railings done and all that. Fortunately, we already have the technology in place to print it out, which makes it much more feasible.

**The Power of 3D Printing**

One of the most amazing things about this technology is its ability to reproduce almost anything. You can take an object, scan it, and then have a machine create an exact replica. This means that even if you can't find an original part anymore, we can make one for you. It's like having access to an endless supply of parts from the past.

**Archaeological Applications**

The technology has even been used in archaeological applications, such as making dinosaur models. Imagine being able to recreate ancient artifacts and bring them back to life through this amazing process. It's truly mind-blowing to think about how it can be applied to real-world problems, like bringing back extinct species or recreating historical objects.

**Online Presence**

To make use of this technology, you can check out our website, which has all sorts of information on our technologies and services. You can even request a quote online, which makes it easy to get started with your own 3D printing project. We also have locations strategically placed across North America, so you don't have to worry about shipping parts around the country.

**Production Time**

So, how long does it take to produce something like this? If we sent you a drawing or 3D model, it would probably take seven to ten days to get the part ready. However, if you send us your old part and we can scan it, we can make adjustments as needed before producing the new one.

**Mistakes and Errors**

One thing that's interesting about this technology is that it allows for mistakes and errors. If you send something in and it doesn't work out perfectly, we can just go back to the drawing board and try again. It's all part of the process, and it shows how flexible and adaptable this technology really is.

**Stratasys Direct**

We've developed a few additive processes 3D printing technologies ourselves, but for Stratasys Direct, we're using a different approach. Because we're a parts manufacturer and service provider, we can't be tied to one specific technology. Instead, we have to be able to adapt to whatever needs come our way.

**Strategic Locations**

Our goal is to have locations all over North America, so that you don't have to worry about shipping parts around the country. Whether you're in Los Angeles or New York, there will likely be a Stratasys Direct location nearby, where you can send your project and get it printed out quickly and efficiently.

**Applications for Businesses**

This technology has real-world applications for businesses, like Harley Davidson owners who can't find certain parts anymore. We've had guys from all over who have brought in their old parts and asked us to scan them and make a new one. It's an incredible service that we're proud to offer.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, 3D printing technology is truly amazing. It has the power to bring back the past, create objects from scratch, and solve real-world problems. We're grateful for this technology and look forward to seeing how it will continue to evolve in the future.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell another episode of Jay Leno's Garage is it Brian this is Bernard Julie you know Bernardi is our shop foreman remember the early days of 3d printing we had to make it in plastic you know remember those days like four years ago well forget that we moved on we've been using our 3d printer what we usually do is you make a mold in plastic you make it what one percent bigger usually right to allow for shrinking and we'd send it out and then and have a test well forget that you don't need that anymore now you can go directly to metal printing I'm not even gonna pretend to understand this Bernard has been taking courses in it he's gonna walk us through it but when you have all parts like this for a white steam car there are barely any cars left let alone parts this is a revelation you can actually have parts made in metal of a better quality than it even was originally so Bernard with a telescas designed apart on the computer and then print it just to prove that we were correct with the design and the dimensions and then we turned it over to bride to make us a metal part okay and the name of your company is stratasys direct manufacturing okay so direct manufacturing means you make it right now I guess that's great directly from a print or a computer why why should we take a CAD model and we print apart directly from that yes sir and what is it powdered metal how is that what it is it is yes sir and it's bonded by heat laser what we use a high-power fiber laser okay that fires down into the into the powder bed fact I'll show you right here okay so this is the inside of the Machine you've got your powder bed your your your powder here your build plate is right here and the laser fires down from above and essentially what we're doing is we're we're micro welding the material and what is that temperature it's actually more or less ambient inside the inside the chamber okay any heat that's in there is just residual from the build plate or the the laser fire okay okay it generates enough heat to fuse the middle that's correct so it's it's a fire it's a 400 watt laser we don't typically use that much power when we're building but but we have it if need it and what does that in degrees how many degrees would that be that's a great question I honestly don't know yeah okay okay now I'll tell you why this is really important especially if you're an old car person let's say you've got an old Bonneville you know a piece of script that says Bonneville how you can't find those there aren't any 65 Bonneville in junkyards anymore but now you can either you can scan one or you can you can draw one up yourself and you can make it and a higher quality metal than the pot metal was made with originally I mean there's no part for any automobile motorcycle steam engine that can't be reproduced you know the idea of going on eBay or you know just trying to find old guys that got stuff in the garage you can make every single part I mean this is a really this is the pilot to a white steam and if you look at these these tubes here these are actually tubes oh yeah these are hollow the actually see the gas this is a burner this this you use this to like a pilot light and you want a heater for your steam car and it comes out with all this it's amazing I mean it's exactly as it left the factory better than it left the factory you're not gonna find any of these they don't exist anymore you know some old guys got one in a barn that's the cool part we have made using the old plastic process we've made connecting rods for the steam engines we've made Pistons well now we don't have to make it in plastic anymore we go right to metal and what is the metal exactly what is the this material is inconel 718 okay so it's it's not some it's a real high quality it's a it's a nickel-based superalloys okay yes sir heat-resistant very heat-resistant very corrosion resistant it's a very tough material even you're not gonna burn this one wow that's amazing and is this the only metal you can use with this or can use different metal no sir we actually run seven different materials at stratasys direct we run an ek Nell 718 we also run iki now 625 we have aluminum titanium 64 cobalt chrome and then two types of stainless one is a 17 for pH and a 3/16 L now if someone's going to buy one of these machines that's how old I am I'm calling your machine if someone's got to buy one of these for a business or their home use well what would they run there the different levels so we've got 14 of these machines if you were to buy one of the the types that we have you're looking at a million dollars oh that's it just to put it on the floor that's a little higher for a piece of script that says Bonneville you actually might find a piece of scrip that's Bonneville for less than $1,000,000 but can people come to you with the thing they need yes sir that's actually cheaper than buying it for a million dollars I would agree so do you have these centers set up around different cities right now or just getting into the marketplace so Stratasys direct as a company we've got seven locations in the US our metals operations are in Central Texas okay so Austin and then about 60 miles north of there in Belton I mean compete we'll walk in with a one-off pieces it's something where no you've got to make 300 of these for it to be viable not at all we do everything from one to two low thousands oh okay well that's pretty good so we need more of these plenty more and what would the what would the cost of something like this be to reproduce a good estimate is about five or six hundred dollars per vertical inch okay because we're building layer additively that's kind of what we we look at things and so what do we have are you thinking this is so once you make one for a thousand is the second one a thousand also of you gotta have you now got the finished product so your so your economies of scale and our process are found by filling up the bill plate so again back to the drawing if you've got your build platform here which which for our machines is essentially nine and a half by nine and a half inches of useful space and so the economies of scale in this process are found by filling up that bill plate so if I just build you one at a time you're not getting the benefits of that economy of scale but if I can fit say six or eight of those in the build and I build you although there's one time now your piece price comes together down below $1,000 okay stack them all together and so one would be a thousand and let's say five might be 3,000 or 4,000 write something that's fair okay well that's not bad that's not that's not and there's really no part you can't make correct very few limitations yeah yes sir the neat part is like we do this in Gibbs because I was thinking of machining it it would involve quite a bit of machine to get all these crossed railings done and all that and bite I am printing it we already got that done so right think about this nothing you can't reproduce I mean if we were if we were like archaeologists like making dinosaurs I mean that's what it is you you take things that no longer exist and now they exist again so how do people just go on the internet and that's how they can find the locations of stratasys direct comm okay here's our website and you know there's obviously there's location information there's a way to request a quote on there there's all kinds of information on all the technologies that we we deploy in order to to do stuff like this you realize every crazy guy I know is now going to call you all right that's outstanding there you go there you go how long does it take you to make something like if we sent you as a drawing or a 3d model how long does it take to make this board on you so talking weeks cut months days your if everything's squared away our our metals folks are going to scrutinize the drawing and make sure you know that it's buildable and it's going to be successful for everybody that doesn't take very long so once once a part is ready to go and it's in a machine you're looking at seven to ten days probably on average now here's a question let's say you're an old guy like me and you're not quite sure if you scan something correctly or if you take the measurements properly can I send you my old part and you can scan it and do it that way or you okay so that's probably if you've got something small or something if it's in a normal size box they could send you the part and you could you could build it from there you bet yep is that a better way to do it I don't know that it's better but it's it's an option well at least a mistake is you know it's our mistake and not yours yeah yeah when it comes back wrong is that exactly yeah no we did quite a bit of a long time we we reverse engineer parts yeah and and this is a great example of that where you've got an obsolete part so to speak and like you've already said that you can't go and acquire another way so we'll reverse engineer it so do you guys develop this technology is this something that you guys know sir we did not now stratasys our parent company has developed a couple of additive processes 3d printing processes and you've got a couple of their machines but but for stratasys direct we are this is not a Stratasys technology and so but but because we're a parts manufacturer and a service provider we we can't really be married to one technology so we have to be able to so ideally if I'm in Los Angeles and somebody in New York wants something rather than even shipping across the country you would call your office in New York and they would print it there and they would pick it up there so yes that that that would be the intent would be that you wouldn't have to make a part here and ship it to New York that it could be produced close to home so to speak so the idea is you would have these just all over the place every major city yes we would have our location strategically placed all over North America really wherever you think the businesses that's correct yes it's it's really an amazing process and it's always fun I when I meet guys in my age group all the time guys that work with leis and things like that and you show them this stuff and they're just astounded by it you know but if you've got parts like this it not only you can't identify you never know what it is and they can make you another one so if he got something you have no idea what it is they'll make you know what it is yeah so where you know you in Los Angeles we are in the LA area yes or San Diego area okay we've got two locations in Arizona the two in Texas that I mentioned where our metals operations are and then even Prairie Minnesota okay because now you're gonna be overrun with guys that have Harley Davidson knuckleheads seat mounts and other things that they can't find anywhere that you guys are going to be able to reproduce so it's really terrific terrific technology here's a website again go check it out it's it's it's it's saved our butt a million times here thank you very much thank you sir thank youwell another episode of Jay Leno's Garage is it Brian this is Bernard Julie you know Bernardi is our shop foreman remember the early days of 3d printing we had to make it in plastic you know remember those days like four years ago well forget that we moved on we've been using our 3d printer what we usually do is you make a mold in plastic you make it what one percent bigger usually right to allow for shrinking and we'd send it out and then and have a test well forget that you don't need that anymore now you can go directly to metal printing I'm not even gonna pretend to understand this Bernard has been taking courses in it he's gonna walk us through it but when you have all parts like this for a white steam car there are barely any cars left let alone parts this is a revelation you can actually have parts made in metal of a better quality than it even was originally so Bernard with a telescas designed apart on the computer and then print it just to prove that we were correct with the design and the dimensions and then we turned it over to bride to make us a metal part okay and the name of your company is stratasys direct manufacturing okay so direct manufacturing means you make it right now I guess that's great directly from a print or a computer why why should we take a CAD model and we print apart directly from that yes sir and what is it powdered metal how is that what it is it is yes sir and it's bonded by heat laser what we use a high-power fiber laser okay that fires down into the into the powder bed fact I'll show you right here okay so this is the inside of the Machine you've got your powder bed your your your powder here your build plate is right here and the laser fires down from above and essentially what we're doing is we're we're micro welding the material and what is that temperature it's actually more or less ambient inside the inside the chamber okay any heat that's in there is just residual from the build plate or the the laser fire okay okay it generates enough heat to fuse the middle that's correct so it's it's a fire it's a 400 watt laser we don't typically use that much power when we're building but but we have it if need it and what does that in degrees how many degrees would that be that's a great question I honestly don't know yeah okay okay now I'll tell you why this is really important especially if you're an old car person let's say you've got an old Bonneville you know a piece of script that says Bonneville how you can't find those there aren't any 65 Bonneville in junkyards anymore but now you can either you can scan one or you can you can draw one up yourself and you can make it and a higher quality metal than the pot metal was made with originally I mean there's no part for any automobile motorcycle steam engine that can't be reproduced you know the idea of going on eBay or you know just trying to find old guys that got stuff in the garage you can make every single part I mean this is a really this is the pilot to a white steam and if you look at these these tubes here these are actually tubes oh yeah these are hollow the actually see the gas this is a burner this this you use this to like a pilot light and you want a heater for your steam car and it comes out with all this it's amazing I mean it's exactly as it left the factory better than it left the factory you're not gonna find any of these they don't exist anymore you know some old guys got one in a barn that's the cool part we have made using the old plastic process we've made connecting rods for the steam engines we've made Pistons well now we don't have to make it in plastic anymore we go right to metal and what is the metal exactly what is the this material is inconel 718 okay so it's it's not some it's a real high quality it's a it's a nickel-based superalloys okay yes sir heat-resistant very heat-resistant very corrosion resistant it's a very tough material even you're not gonna burn this one wow that's amazing and is this the only metal you can use with this or can use different metal no sir we actually run seven different materials at stratasys direct we run an ek Nell 718 we also run iki now 625 we have aluminum titanium 64 cobalt chrome and then two types of stainless one is a 17 for pH and a 3/16 L now if someone's going to buy one of these machines that's how old I am I'm calling your machine if someone's got to buy one of these for a business or their home use well what would they run there the different levels so we've got 14 of these machines if you were to buy one of the the types that we have you're looking at a million dollars oh that's it just to put it on the floor that's a little higher for a piece of script that says Bonneville you actually might find a piece of scrip that's Bonneville for less than $1,000,000 but can people come to you with the thing they need yes sir that's actually cheaper than buying it for a million dollars I would agree so do you have these centers set up around different cities right now or just getting into the marketplace so Stratasys direct as a company we've got seven locations in the US our metals operations are in Central Texas okay so Austin and then about 60 miles north of there in Belton I mean compete we'll walk in with a one-off pieces it's something where no you've got to make 300 of these for it to be viable not at all we do everything from one to two low thousands oh okay well that's pretty good so we need more of these plenty more and what would the what would the cost of something like this be to reproduce a good estimate is about five or six hundred dollars per vertical inch okay because we're building layer additively that's kind of what we we look at things and so what do we have are you thinking this is so once you make one for a thousand is the second one a thousand also of you gotta have you now got the finished product so your so your economies of scale and our process are found by filling up the bill plate so again back to the drawing if you've got your build platform here which which for our machines is essentially nine and a half by nine and a half inches of useful space and so the economies of scale in this process are found by filling up that bill plate so if I just build you one at a time you're not getting the benefits of that economy of scale but if I can fit say six or eight of those in the build and I build you although there's one time now your piece price comes together down below $1,000 okay stack them all together and so one would be a thousand and let's say five might be 3,000 or 4,000 write something that's fair okay well that's not bad that's not that's not and there's really no part you can't make correct very few limitations yeah yes sir the neat part is like we do this in Gibbs because I was thinking of machining it it would involve quite a bit of machine to get all these crossed railings done and all that and bite I am printing it we already got that done so right think about this nothing you can't reproduce I mean if we were if we were like archaeologists like making dinosaurs I mean that's what it is you you take things that no longer exist and now they exist again so how do people just go on the internet and that's how they can find the locations of stratasys direct comm okay here's our website and you know there's obviously there's location information there's a way to request a quote on there there's all kinds of information on all the technologies that we we deploy in order to to do stuff like this you realize every crazy guy I know is now going to call you all right that's outstanding there you go there you go how long does it take you to make something like if we sent you as a drawing or a 3d model how long does it take to make this board on you so talking weeks cut months days your if everything's squared away our our metals folks are going to scrutinize the drawing and make sure you know that it's buildable and it's going to be successful for everybody that doesn't take very long so once once a part is ready to go and it's in a machine you're looking at seven to ten days probably on average now here's a question let's say you're an old guy like me and you're not quite sure if you scan something correctly or if you take the measurements properly can I send you my old part and you can scan it and do it that way or you okay so that's probably if you've got something small or something if it's in a normal size box they could send you the part and you could you could build it from there you bet yep is that a better way to do it I don't know that it's better but it's it's an option well at least a mistake is you know it's our mistake and not yours yeah yeah when it comes back wrong is that exactly yeah no we did quite a bit of a long time we we reverse engineer parts yeah and and this is a great example of that where you've got an obsolete part so to speak and like you've already said that you can't go and acquire another way so we'll reverse engineer it so do you guys develop this technology is this something that you guys know sir we did not now stratasys our parent company has developed a couple of additive processes 3d printing processes and you've got a couple of their machines but but for stratasys direct we are this is not a Stratasys technology and so but but because we're a parts manufacturer and a service provider we we can't really be married to one technology so we have to be able to so ideally if I'm in Los Angeles and somebody in New York wants something rather than even shipping across the country you would call your office in New York and they would print it there and they would pick it up there so yes that that that would be the intent would be that you wouldn't have to make a part here and ship it to New York that it could be produced close to home so to speak so the idea is you would have these just all over the place every major city yes we would have our location strategically placed all over North America really wherever you think the businesses that's correct yes it's it's really an amazing process and it's always fun I when I meet guys in my age group all the time guys that work with leis and things like that and you show them this stuff and they're just astounded by it you know but if you've got parts like this it not only you can't identify you never know what it is and they can make you another one so if he got something you have no idea what it is they'll make you know what it is yeah so where you know you in Los Angeles we are in the LA area yes or San Diego area okay we've got two locations in Arizona the two in Texas that I mentioned where our metals operations are and then even Prairie Minnesota okay because now you're gonna be overrun with guys that have Harley Davidson knuckleheads seat mounts and other things that they can't find anywhere that you guys are going to be able to reproduce so it's really terrific terrific technology here's a website again go check it out it's it's it's it's saved our butt a million times here thank you very much thank you sir thank you\n"