Replies to post #36237 on Sigma Labs Inc (SASI)

[ZRock]

Max if you check geaviation or gereports.com started 2013 there's several releases that explains the fuel nozzles and why nozzles for LEAP can only be mfg using AM. . Z

[MDuffy]

Well, last April I went and saw Morris speak at this Advanced Manufacturing show in Florence KY and did a whole big write-up about it. (I don't have a paid membership so can't search/pull up my own post, though someone else can...) but in his slide show he was talking about how GE is pioneering this stuff and actually redesigning parts specifically for AM- like they redesigned one of their turbine parts to where it no longer has a mess of 'spaghetti' like tubes with a fabricated exterior, but a streamlined interior structure with solid, additively manufactured metal construction that can only be made through the AM process. It was pretty cool. [He also had a picture of Print Rite when discussing Quality Assurance, WITH the In-Process Quality Assurance heading, as this was before Mark and Witty started defending their registered trademark…] :)

[DriftinWayOfLife]

Max,

a little more reading material for you

http://fortune.com/2015/03/05/ge-engine-3d-printing/

patience and GLTA

[jpi]

http://www.geglobalresearch.com/innovation/3d-printing-creates-new-parts-aircraft-engines

In 2016, GE Aviation will introduce the first 3D-printed parts in an aircraft engine platform. Each of the new CFM LEAP engines, produced jointly by GE and its long-time partner, Snecma (SAFRAN) of France, will have 19 3D-printed fuel nozzles in the combustion system that could not be made any other way. The benefits of printing these parts are numerous.

[ZRock]

max, check post 15579 for the writeup by MCduffy after attending the presentation in Florence, Ky by Greg Morris and other GE reps. last April. Z