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Comment Re:If anyone actually cared... (Score 1) 710

Sintered metal would be a lot more brittle than a cast or forged part, keep that in mind.

You could make a cast from ABS or the like, but that takes a lot of experience to pull off (and you burn out the ABS, which is hardly good for the environment if it's being done in any sort of quantity)

Comment Re:If anyone actually cared... (Score 1) 710

The simple stuff like screws, nuts, and bolts are already interchangeable. Go to the hardware store and look around - notice all the standard sizing and threading. Sure, you might have to cut one to a shorter length, but that's hardly a game-breaker.

It's the non-standard stuff that makes machine A do job A while machine B does job B, that gets costly to keep parts in stock. Of course, the manufacturer should have a supply of parts themselves to respond to increased demand, and having just a bit more of that than normal to handle repair orders wouldn't cost them that much more than they already spend...

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