I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.
Steel is needed everywhere.
I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.
Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.
We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.
In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.