All said and done I want a 3-d printer I`m willing to trade my first born even though he`s 18 and no longer new lol
I don't know, its still a PLA extrusion printer, and I cant seem to get excited by them. The resolution is low, thin or flat pieces never come out very well, and you always end up needing to sand and fill parts that come out of these printers before the quality is good enough to use. If I had a part to print, I'd much rather send the file off to a specialised company with industrial nylon printers. To me, these things are like the 80s/90s printers that took the sheets of paper with a perforated edge. They could print a word document in a pinch, but you wouldn't dream of printing a photograph with them.
Avoid Makerbot and FSL, both companies are rubbish.
I came across an interesting page: Lost PLA Casting from 3D Prints.
Like "Lost Wax Casting", but with PLA plastic: Print the part in PLA, cast in Plaster of Paris, burn out the PLA and then pour aluminium into the plaster mould.
I suppose that the air pockets inside the prints help burn it out.
BTW, the parts that the guy printed were not perfect and the other one could just as well have been routed.