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      11-14-2018, 04:32 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Red Bread View Post
Just curious how many man hours one of those took vs a standard wheel?
The actual 3D printing of a single wheel took a few days, so a full set would take about a week roughly.

Machining time of our most simplistic design that we make (like a Classic series), can be machined in about an hour and a half.

Additive manufacturing has it's benefits, but speed isn't one of them the moment when comparing to machining a wheel out of a forging for the time being. I'm sure with technological advances those times are going to start coming down. Also once machines get large enough to print an entire wheel I'm sure that will help significantly too since we had to make this wheel in 5 separate pieces, then bolted together.
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