3D Printing

Industrial Vacuum Highlights Reality of “Push-Button” 3D Printers

NA35 Swing Arm NewIs that broken down metal dust collector collecting dust in the corner of your industrial workspace? Then you might be interested in the new NA35 Series industrial metal dust collector to keep your manufacturing environment safe from all manner of dangerous particles. The NA35 Series Immersion Separator from Ruwac is meant to clean your workspace of fumes and dusts.

The metal dust collector can suck up any glowing embers from welding projects or dust from laser sintered prints to prevent them from finding their way to an ignition source in your manufacturing vacuum. Dangerous materials are collected and immediately immersed in a turbulent liquid bath, submerged and neutralized. The speciality vacuum uses a screened garden hose connector, stainless steel components and a filter to increase the effectiveness of the cleaning process.  And a number of adapter accessories can be attached to the unit’s hose for a variety of cleaning tasks. For more information on the NA35 Series Immersion Separator, watch the video below:

While the NA35 may seem like another boring piece of industrial equipment for modern manufacturing, its existence reveals that industrial 3D printing is not a fully-automatic process.  The mainstream media may hype additive manufacturing as a push-button technology, but there are, in fact, safety issues in the potentially dangerous world of industrial additive manufacturing.  And, when it comes to laser sintering powder – as used to create the 12,200-year-old mammoth skeleton replica at the Ice Age Museum in Schleswig – such industrial vacuums are necessary to maintain a clean and safe working environment that can’t be accomplished with the simple push of a button.

Source: Ruwac