Even the US military industrial complex has to deal with broken “household” items.
To help ensure they can get their laundry done, the US military is using 3D printers for replacement parts for latches that fail.
“Sgt. Aidan Hanson, a barracks manager assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, Division Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division, grew tired of seeing a “broken” sign taped to dozens of washing machines in the barracks where he and his peers live.
“We were getting to a point where almost all of our washers within the DIVARTY barracks were unserviceable and couldn’t be used because the latch was broken,” Hanson said.
After learning the Directorate of Public Works was unable to procure the part because it’s no longer in production, Hanson took the initiative to see if he could replicate one with a 3D printer.”
Hopefully these aren’t military priced commercial products that are failing but certainly could be.
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