davidalone wrote:
Didn't Sky have this awhile back with Wiggins already?
I work in a 3D printing lab. Titanium and aluminium powder are explosive, so only certain places can deal with them.
Traditionally, a Metal 3D printer capable of doing something like aerobars would cost you about a million dollars, give or take a hundred k or two.
There are a couple of newer metal printers- specifically the Markforged MetalX and the Desktop Metal costing about ~150k coming to market later this year. Their print beds are too small to print aerobars though, although if you seperated it into two with some clever design it might be doable.
Online service beaureaus like i.materialise will print titanium for you though.Unfortunately, Build size isn't big Enough.
https://i.materialise.com/3d-printing-materials/titanium An alternative may actually to print in ULTEM. ULTEM is aerospace and engineering grade polymer. Will still be expensive, just not as much as 3d printed titanium.
ULTEM will be much too flexible and you'll end up having to print it so thick it'll be much heavier than a titanium part.