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That's exactly where this whole article fudges the facts.
You're 'printed' camshaft might even fit but it would explode the moment you tried to crank up your car.
The metal parts that can be made using this process are 'sintered', which is an expensive way of saying that they consist of compressed powder.
Such parts have compressive strength but usually not much tensile strength.
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That's exactly where this whole article fudges the facts.
You're 'printed' camshaft might even fit but it would explode the moment you tried to crank up your car.
The metal parts that can be made using this process are 'sintered', which is an expensive way of saying that they consist of compressed powder.
Such parts have compressive strength but usually not much tensile strength.