Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. Almost here

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corner. For Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

This is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast almost here around the corner of

Future Technology and I'm here with Rick Neff, the BAM sales manager at Cincinnati company that does 3D printing amongst many other things.

How you doing Rick?

I'm doing great.

Thanks, Richard. Yeah, thanks for coming. So first of all, what is BAM the acronym

stand for and what work do you do at Cincinnati? Well, BAM stands for a big area additive manufacturing and what

that is is it's a giant 3D printer and I'm the sales manager for BAM and and was part of the original development of the machine.

So when you say it's a large 3D printing platform, how big, what kind of what size objects can you print?

Well most 3D printers print things about the size of a shoebox and our machine we

have two sizes.

And the small size has a 5.5 by 13 foot build platform.

It can build parts up to 6 feet tall.

And then we have a large machine which has an 8 foot by 20 foot

build platforms that can also build part six feet tall. That's crazy yeah you're

right I mean most applications are small and getting smaller.

So what kind of things that you guys commonly at 3D printed that scale?

Well, when we first started looking at the market, the technology came from Lockheed Martin, and they were trying to 3D print tooling using an extruder on a robot.

And our technology partner, Oak Ridge National Labs, put the same extruder on a gantry

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