IDEA: 3d Printed/Compression Molded Hybrid Chips? (2 Viewers)

[FinnPD]

Tungsten powder?

Edit: AI answered… very expensive and highly abrasive and may damage equipment depending.

Yes Sir, literally any powdered metal can be bound by polymers and held into shape in the form of filament. Tungsten would indeed shred any non-diamond nozzle in minutes to the point of unusable. To print tungsten parts, a DMLS (Direct Metal Laser Sintering) machine would be required for the best result. This setup would be about $1.5M to get 1 machine running tungsten. Then every machine needed to process the parts, would be degraded quickly simply because its tungsten and need constant part replacement. Not fun stuff. Better to fire it at our "enemies."

 

[FinnPD]

Sorry if you took that as a serious question. Was meant to be a joke, but not really since you know how much some of us love our leaded chips.

I did indeed, as leaded chips are a thing. How about gold instead? Its similar to lead, and only adds $134.23 per gram, per chip!
500 piece chipset x 2g gold added to each chip for weight = $132,230.00 + whatever the chips cost. Poker chips for Saudi Princes! Pocket Change....

 

[smashed_potato]

@FinnPD I keep thinking your avatar is a Poliwhirl especially with all the polymer talk.

Great thread, eager to see the outcome.

 

[FinnPD]

@FinnPD I keep thinking your avatar is a Poliwhirl especially with all the polymer talk.

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Great thread, eager to see the outcome.

No, just my X-ray Specs that I use to cheat at cards.....