Quote Originally Posted by 3dkarma View Post
Take a look here - reprap with a mig welder for a hotend = metal reprap.
Yea I saw that one at my lunch time today when I realized how to do this. I went to see if anybody else was thinking or had thought about this sort of thing. That one has some limitations though. Only works with certain welding metals, cannot make vertical holes, ect... I also saw the Vader which uses induction, not bad, but I think we can do better. And there was that mini metal printer that prints metal clays that can then be fired. Also not bad, but requires a furnace to cure the print. I was thinking there has got to be a way to do this using the same techniques used in plastic printing, but for all kinds of metals. And that's when it hit me how it could be done.

I think we'll need to form a team and build a kick-starter. ;-)